Evidence suggests the Internet might make people smarter—to a point. At least that's what Ben Taylor of FindTheBest.com believes.Taylor, writing for Time, analyzed country-by-country Internet penetra...

Parents do more than teach their children how to tie their shoes and why it's important to say "please" and "thank you." Many of them train them about how to vote, too. However, new research indicates that pare...

High school graduation rates continue to climb, according to new figures released by the National Center for Education Statistics. About 81 percent of the class of 2012 graduated on time, according to the data&...

Working at camp for almost a decade has given me the opportunity to watch campers as they are growing up year after year. To be honest, it tends to make one feel old seeing a former camper go off to college or ...

The Bible contains more than 700,000 words. By comparison, The Lord of the Rings trilogy contains nearly 500,000; The Iliad clocks in at approximately 360,000. The gateway into God's revelation is massive text ...

One lady prayed as she entered the new year, "Dear God, I pray for a fat bank account and a thin body. Please don't mix these up as You did last year."Have you ever wondered what to pray for or how to pray?Perh...

This past year, my 3-year-old was hanging out in my office while his brother was at preschool. Suddenly, he stopped playing and pointed to an object on my desk. He kept pointing and proceeded to ask what this s...

"He's just a typical middle school boy; he'll outgrow this." I was concerned that my son kept forgetting his homework, and his math teacher's response helped ease my nerves. As a parent, I don't want to hear th...

In 1992, I began a Ph.D. program in developmental psychology at the University of Oregon. This was an exciting, groundbreaking time to study young children in research labs across the country. The field of infa...

J.W., a preteen, went through a spiritual conversion during youth ministry. No, I did not lead J.W. down that path. To be honest, a number of caring adults and youth contributed to that monumental moment. The o...