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My parents were liars.

They lied to me about how those Christmas presents got under the tree and where those Easter eggs came...

Here’s one more take on Dr. Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow study, which I analyzed last Friday. If you recall, one third of...

Excellence is grown, not born, a New York Times best-selling author told members of the Evanston school community on Friday. 

I recently stopped to congratulate a young mother pushing her toddler in a stroller. The woman had been talking to her barely v...

My daugther's favourite nursery rhyme was Humpty Dumpty. As a baby, she'd grin and gurgle to keep me singing; later she'd pull m...

A new study links bullying behavior by adolescents to the perception they are not treated fairly by their parents.

How are bul...