October 28, 2026
Santa Barbara's only nonprofit cooking school gives kids real knives, hot stoves and a seat at the table. We spent two days with founder Nancy Martz and executive director Jill Barton.
July 27, 2026
Reading risk can be spotted as early as kindergarten, yet many kids aren't identified until second grade or later.
July 25, 2026
Historian Helen Zoe Veit traces how 'kid food' and children's menus created picky eaters -- it wasn't always this way.
July 25, 2026
The phone-free meal isn't about willpower — it's about what kids see modeled first, according to research on caregiver device use.
July 25, 2026
Bargaining over bites turns dinner into a negotiation. Research says the fix is a clear job split, not a better deal.
July 17, 2026
That after-school crash isn't defiance — it's a depleted brain. Here's why refueling comes before anything else.
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