Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

Researchers monitored more than 100 4-6-year-olds Complex ideas presented on television proved difficult for them to comprehend Children’s television programming often contains moral lessons and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every parent’s primary goal is to raise a decent human, but didactic speeches about right and wrong aren’t exactly in the cards ...

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

In requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in schools, what moral lessons do proponents of House Bill 1145 want students to learn? Let’s start with the last commandment as stated in Exodus: “You ...

The findings are noteworthy since so much of children's media— books, movies, video games, etc.— use human-like animal characters. But since many children in this study did not see these characters as ...

The average watercooler conversation likely doesn’t cover the spiritual message to be drawn from last night’s TV show or that summer blockbuster. But pop-culture offerings can be interpreted in ways ...

Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...