Like many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans ...

Learning the alphabet is fundamental to communication in any language. As kids, we are first taught to distinguish the letters that begin and construct words. Of course, 'A' is for 'apple' and 'B' is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Celebrate your child's scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a ...

Celebrate your child's scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a drawing doesn't - a ...

The idea: At some point, children learn that a squiggle on a page represents something, and then that the squiggle we call text has a more specific meaning than what we call a drawing. “Dog,” for ...