Kindergarten teacher pens emotional poem for parents dropping kids off at school When Tavia Wade dropped her twin girls off at kindergarten for the first time, she received a poem attached to a pack ...

"By the second line, I couldn't say it out loud because my lip was quivering." It's a rite of passage many parents are familiar with – that emotional experience sending kids off to kindergarten for ...

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

Draven Bennington is the 23-year-old son of the late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington. The late music artist shared him ...

Restraint collapse is a coping mechanism that children use to release pent-up emotions after maintaining self-control throughout the school day. This type of emotional outburst is not a formal medical ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." A new collection of illustrated ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...