Balance

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Robot battles, drone tournaments, fan-filled arenas: The new brand of STEM education is goal-driven, group-oriented -- and giddily intense

... to stop a bully. The state has an ambitious new program to deal with the issue — and one zealous new anti-bullying czar

Modern financial literacy education teaches children to save for a rainy day — and for college, homes and more

Introducing your child to art — how to look at it, how to make it — can be a fulfilling experience for both of you. Here’s how to do it.

As they sprout across the valley, school gardens are growing more than vegetables and herbs. They’re cultivating a broad new approach to elementary science education — and stronger community roots.

For a 6-year-old, this was a magical city of lights, mysterious voids and basketball — the stuff memories are made of.

These prodigies are off to a fast start thanks to their naturalgifts — and supportive parentsAnnick HaczkiewiczThis queen of the greens might be future golf royaltyThirteen-year-old Annick Haczkiewicz (hutch-kuh-veech) has a regular Friday night skins game that is anything but regular: “I play with a bunch of older guys that are like 80 years old and stuff, and we play for money,” she says, and often enough, Haczkiewicz wins. The older fellows like to give each other the gears about losing to a small girl, but really you can’t blame ’em — Haczkiewicz has a 2 handicap and a killer short game.

When it comes to kids and tech, no one knows how much is too much — but it’s clear all these screens are changing themThe iPotty — I’m not making this up — is a toilet training seat that looks like a small school desk, on which an iPad replaces the desktop. Or there’s Fisher Price’s Apptivity seat for newborns and toddlers — a baby bouncer with an iPad mount.

An unorthodox couple finds grace in the challenges of co-parentingFamily life now commonly comes with challenges that were exceptional a couple generations ago: divorced parents, joint custody, two-home arrangements. Diana England and Tammy Goodrich have all these, plus some other potentially complicating factors: They’re a same-sex former couple who adopted their children, Audrey and Logan, birth-siblings now 7 and 6 years old, respectively.