Got a sweet-natured daughter who needs to find her own voice? Have a thoughtful son who isn't inclined toward team sports? Eager to teach your kids useful, real-world skills like empathy, responsibility, confidence, and leadership? Well folks, plop your child onto a horse and watch something truly magical unfold. After all, horses have been raising the bar on human intelligence for thousands of years, no doubt explaining why horses are key players in so many of our maxims and idioms...
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Health & Happiness
Digitally Distracted Parents are Endangering their Kids
A growing number of kids around the world are being seriously injured or even dying, often within eyesight or earshot of their parents. The...
Health & Happiness
Why American Kids Need More Play, Less Purpose in Life
"The opposite of play isn't work," said Brian Sutton-Smith. "It's depression." Which may help to explain why, in an era when play is being stripped...
Soccer
Soccer Headers Really Are Bad for Girls' Brains
Adult female soccer players who head the ball show as much as five times more signs of neurological damage than do male players who...
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Fencing
Why Fencing is the New It Sport for Kids
Eager to find a sport that challenges your child's body AND brain? Curious about which sport gives your child the greatest chance of continuing...
Basketball
Why Girls Suffer High Rates of ACL Tears
Once rare in children, ACL injuries in kids have increased at the rate of 2.3% per year for more than 20 years. And the...
Health & Happiness
Adults Are Breaking Kids
Overzealous, yet well-intentioned adults are breaking kids. That's the consensus of a growing number of pediatric specialists pointing to dramatic increases in sports-related injuries...
THE ARTS
Why Theatre is Great for Kids
It's a challenge all too familiar to parents. A child, usually though not always a son, who is quiet, socially withdrawn, more likely to follow than carve out his own path. Ironically, this is where the stage comes in and why theatre is great for kids. In Hollywood-speak, we might call...
Creativity
5 Ways Painting Helps Kids
Albert Einstein maintained that a creative imagination was "more important than knowledge," and, alternatively, that "creativity is intelligence having fun." Perhaps nowhere is a...
Music
Your Child's Brain on Music
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Popular ideas, such as the “Mozart effect” – the idea that listening to...
Theatre
7 Important Ways Theatre Helps Kids
Children are natural born actors. Watch them at play in the backyard, in their bedroom, or just about anywhere and you're apt to catch...
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Sports & Athletics
A Time-Saving, Disaster-Averting Survival Guide to Kids' Summer Sports
Your child is ready to enter the adrenalin-pumping, life-affirming, character-building world of summertime youth sports. The benefits are, of course, endless. And let's be...
Health & Happiness
How Iceland Saved Its Youth
Over the past generation, Iceland underwent a remarkable transformation that saw its youth go from Europe's biggest consumers of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes to its...
Health & Happiness
Why Tech Leaders Don't Let Their Kids Use Tech
Parents who are struggling with how much digital screen time to allow their kids would be wise to consider that the titans of those...
STEM
How Art and STEM Build Emotionally Intelligent Children
Hardly a day goes by that parents aren't reminded that their kids need to be up to speed with - if not downright excelling...
Health & Happiness
The Growing Link Between Teen Suicide and Smartphones
Since 2010 the number of teens (ages 13-18) who committed suicide increased a whopping 31%, and researchers are increasingly convinced that this increase is...
Camp
Summer Camp as Digital Detox?
By now you've likely heard that technology - especially the kind found in a smartphone - has been likened to 'digital heroin,' as addictive...
INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS
Robbie Schaefer: What Makes Kids Tick
We're fortunate here at Kidzu to be good pals with Robbie Schaefer, creative polymath who knows a thing or two about what makes kids tick when it comes to music and the arts. Consider just a few of Robbie's recent or ongoing accomplishments: - Lead guitarist and singer for the folk...
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Outdoor
Gardening with Kids
With warmer temperatures finally (FINALLY!) here, it's time to get serious about gardening. And similar to our earlier post on the magic of gardening with...
Climbing
Rock Climbing for Kids: Reaching New Heights
Your daughter is struggling with her self-confidence; your son is trying to get into shape (or worried about his weight); your teen is stressing...
Health & Happiness
Sleep Deprivation in Kids and How to Avoid It
Kids are not getting enough sleep. That's the consensus of multiple research teams, who point out that this sleep deprivation is hurting kids academically,...
Academics
Don't Blame Extracurricular Activities for Bad Grades
Parents and school officials who keep kids out of extracurricular activities because of poor grades may be making the problem even worse. That's the consensus...
Health & Happiness
Growing with Kids: The Magic of Gardening
Spring is just two months away, which is why now is the time to start planning for one of the easiest, most educational, and...
Band
7 Reasons Marching Band is Good for Kids
Next time you're at a high school football game, ask yourself which of the kids on the field are likely to do best in...
Football
Another Study Confirms Dangers of Football for Boys Under 12
A new study suggests that the age at which boys begin playing football offers the strongest indicator yet as to who is at risk...
Health & Happiness
IoT Toys Pose Serious Security Risk
Thinking of buying an Internet-connected toy or device for your child this holiday? Do so with the understanding the data these Internet of Things...
Creativity
Go Outside and Play!
Go outside and play! Most of us who came of age in the pre-digital era recall that particular command from mom or dad. In...
Sports & Athletics
Where Are All the Referees?
By most measures, the number of qualified, sanctioned referees is falling across the county, and this shortage is impacting youth sports at all levels,...
Health & Happiness
Bullied Children More Likely to Bring Weapons to School
When adults feel that they or their loved ones are threatened, they often resort to buying a gun or applying for a permit to...
Innovation
Are Parents Ready for Smart Buses?
We approach any talk of smart cars, delivery vans, and tractor trailers with, at best, idle curiosity. But what if the driverless vehicle in...
Basketball
Why Basketball is #1 with Kids
Picture a youth sport where every participant is actively involved, where there is constant motion and the level of physical exercise outstanding, where kids...
Health & Happiness
Sports Bullying Remains a Big Problem
Despite multiple nationwide campaigns to weed out bullying in schools, too often we turn a blind eye to bullying in sports, particularly the kind...
Creativity
Instilling Rather than Killing Creativity in Kids
In his wildly popular TED talk, "Do schools kill creativity," Sir Ken Robinson argues that the adult world needs to reimagine the educational process so...
