The best poetry for dark winter days

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand ...

Appalachia youth pen 'A Pencil Grows in Kentucky' anthology

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...
Wired

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...
Post-Bulletin

Poem: Where are the kids?

J. M. Allen’s book “Real Rhyming Poems” is available at both the Rochester public library and the RCTC library. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Combat Summer Reading Slumps, This Timeless Children’s Television Show Tried to Bridge the Literacy Gap With the Magic of Stories

At left, Tony Buttino prepares Western New York book reviewers (from left to right: Stephanie, Percy and Afrika) with production assistant Pam Johnson at right. Courtesy of WNED PBS, Buffalo, NY For ...
WESH

Summer slowdown: Expert weighs in on positive, negative effects of boredom on children

FROM THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. AND FOR SO MANY STUDENTS HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA, 30 DAYS REMAINS FOR SUMMER BREAK. AND IT COULD MEAN AT THIS POINT, A LOT OF KIDS ARE SAYING, MOM, DAD, I’M BORED. YOU ...
WMUR

Summer meals program begins for New Hampshire children

The New Hampshire Department of Education and the USDA are starting to open the doors to dozens of locations offering children free meals this summer.Last year, more than 300,000 meals were given out ...
Scientific American

Summer Learning Loss Happens, but Kids Quickly Recover

Summer has arrived. For kids, this might mean freedom from schoolwork. But for parents, it can also mean the summer care scramble—the stressful (and expensive) need for working parents to piece ...
USA Today

Millennial parents want to give their children a '90s kid summer. What does that mean?

The '90s nostalgia that brought back cargo pants and flip phones is also fueling a parenting trend among Millennials called '90s kid summers. The idea is to recreate the core childhood memories of a ...
USA Today

Desperate to keep kids off screens? They won't be able to put these books down

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...
The Conversation

Summer break brings uncertainty for children, and kindness at home matters

Amina Yousaf does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Scientific American

Use Summer Break to Build Closer Bonds with Your Children

Kids have so much to manage during the school year. Social pressures, schoolwork and the myriad activities before and after school, like sports, music and clubs, are all sources of big emotions and ...