Best sound books for kids for interactive fun - It’s never too early to introduce a love of books, so here are 10 of the best ...

D uring the pandemic, many of us have felt our stress levels rise every time we hear the word “virus”. But few people realise that just the sound of the word virus alone is likely to raise the ...

Challenge kids to find everything in the house that starts with a specific sound. Stretch out one word in a sentence. Ask your child to “pass the salt” but say the individual sounds in the word “salt” ...

The sounds you make when you read Spanish out loud can sometimes be different to the ones you would make in English. Perfume. Perfume. It’s spelled the same as in English. In Spanish you say all ...

Family ‘horrified’ by baby name which sounds like slang word for drugs. A woman who gave her daughter a unique name had no idea it sounded just like a slang word for drugs.

The number matters, child development experts say. Kids in lower-income families tend to hear fewer words than their peers in wealthier ones by the time they enter kindergarten, and some children ...

One reader said her poor son has never experienced the joy of hugging a balloon animal. She cannot tolerate the sound of hands on an inflated balloon. (iStock) Perspective by John Kelly “Sounds ...

Technology is coming for kids’ story time, but maybe not in the way that you think. The future of bedtime stories, as MIT Technology Review describes it, won’t involve tablets or reading off ...