14-02-10 A long time ago there were a King and Queen who said every day, Ah, if only we had a child! but they never had one. But it happened that once when the Queen was bathing, a frog crept out of the water on to the land, and said to her, Your wish shall...

14-01-28 Just how are adults learning to use technology? Chances are if you are a parent, your child is teaching you. A recent paper published in the Journal of Communication found that between 30%-40% of parents were taught how to use the computer and Inter...

14-01-16 Mompetition is the one-up rivalry that moms play making their child seem better, smarter, and/or more advanced than yours. It may involve two or more moms and any number of children, even full-grown. 拼孩，是妈妈们之间的比拼，比谁的孩子看上去更好、...

13-12-30 Women need not fear that eating peanuts during pregnancy could cause their child to develop a peanut allergy, according to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital published online Dec. 23 in JAMA Pediatrics. Our study showed increased peanut con...

13-12-26 Landlocked Alan Feldman What am I doing, trudging around Natick, Massachusetts, so archetypal（原型的） in its split-level, clapboard（护墙板） ordinariness, one house after another like a crowd gathered haphazardly at an accident site? And why expl...

13-12-24 They're the latest must-have for any child who wants to get ahead. No, not a flashy toy or trendy gadget, but a Pank (professional aunt, no kids). 他们是孩子们引领潮流的最新必备品。他们不是耀眼的玩具或时髦的小玩意，他们是潘克族（没有孩子的职场阿姨）...

13-12-15 A girl of five has been taken into care because she weighed more than 10 stone, it was revealed yesterday. 一名5岁的英国女童曾因体重超过10英石（约63.5公斤）被送进医院接受治疗。 The girl is one of the heaviest of her age ever recorded in the UK and a...

13-12-12 A child aged seven or eight ran hastily to the police station and told a policeman, Please come quickly! A man is at my house beating up my father. He is dying! The policemen therefore rushed to the scene with the child. They indeed saw two men figh...

13-11-25 There was once a forester（护林人） who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child w...

13-11-20 There was once on a time a Queen to whom God had given no children. Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter. Then an angel from heaven came to her and said, Be at rest, thou shalt have...