3+ week, 3+ day ago  (201+ words) Nine children have died from influenza during the winter flu season in Massachusetts, officials said. The state Department of Public Health's dashboard reported nine pediatric flu deaths as of March 19, along with 313 adult deaths. The flu season generally spans the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1033+ words) Ellis Early Learning opened in 1885 as a haven for South End children who hawked newspapers and shined shoes on the street. The school has endured as a Boston institution, serving as a national model for early childhood education. But now,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (771+ words) Years ago, my daughter came home from elementary school and told me a kid had made fun of her during math class. "You're still working on that packet?" he had taunted. "I finished that yesterday. I must be smarter than…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1024+ words) This Tax Day, more people might be celebrating their refunds than usual. The Internal Revenue Service is sending more money back: The average refund for the almost 100 million households who had already filed their returns as of April 3 was $3, 462, more…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (555+ words) The Massachusetts House recently voted 12925 to prohibit social media use for children under 14 and place restrictions on those age 14 and 15 (House OK's limits on social media use," Metro, April 10). The bill reflects a familiar assumption: Restricting access will reduce harm....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1091+ words) Growing up in Wayland near Henry Knox's famous cannon trek, Rob Waldron remembers all the commotion around the US Bicentennial in 1976: the historic reenactments, the bell-ringing at the local Unitarian Universalist church, the town hydrants painted red, white, and blue....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (964+ words) Roblox Corp. is for the first time introducing special accounts designed specifically for younger children and teens, as the company tries to head off the possibility of being swept up by various. .. Roblox adds youth accounts amid push for social…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1398+ words) This reporting was supported by the International Women's Media Foundation's Women on the Ground: Reporting from Ukraine's Unseen Frontlines Initiative in partnership with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. KYIV " In a small apartment in Odesa in southern Ukraine, 5-year-old Amilie sits…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (286+ words) Zach Przystup is the author of the Substack newsletter Ask Your Father, where he writes about parenting, family life, sports, and technology. C. S. Lewis wrote, "Someday you'll be old enough to read fairy tales again." It looks like I've reached that…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (545+ words) M'liejade Tremblay-Bouchard spins as many as 12 hula hoops at a time around her torso, limbs, and neck in "Passengers," from the 7 Fingers, a Montreal-based circus collective, at American Repertory Theater Sept. 2-26. In the show, train travel is a metaphor for…...