For Modern Kids, 'Philanthropy' Is No Grown-Up Word
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In lieu of presents for her 12th birthday party this year, Maddie Freed of Potomac asked her friends to bring money, and she raised $800 for Children's Hospital.
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Modern parents believe they are more affectionate to their babies than previous generations.
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There's hope for the next generation when teens begin investing their money.
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The question of cellphones for preteenagers and teenagers is rarely one of financial cost anymore. It is one of social value.
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There is a dissonance between two camps of modern liberal ideology, both of which have had a deep influence on my thinking. On the one hand there is the green ideology that advocates buying locally produced products or growing your own and the general  reduction of energy usage. On the other there is the drop the debt coalition that is attempting to help the developing world drag itself up and become a richer place.   This article is my attempt to resolve their influence on my own beliefs, with regards to philanthropy.
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The urgent needs created by three major natural disasters &amp;#151; the tsunami in Asia, earthquake in Pakistan and hurricanes Rita, Katrina and Wilma &amp;#151; drove American philanthropy to its highest level since the end of the technology boom, a new study showed.
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A hipper niche of kid music is encouraging a curious form of parental connoisseurship, where ÂHigh FidelityÂ meets high chairs.
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By helping children abroad, an American couple sought to create a legacy for their son, who died of a heart ailment.
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Planning a gift to charity can make a good thing even better.
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It&#39;s an old and familiar story: Cool Kid #1 plans a party and hundreds of people are on the guest list. Cool Kid #2 gets jealous and decides to throw a separate party at the same time, but with cooler toys, better food, and FREE MASSAGES. Now Cool Kid #1 isn&#39;t talking to Cool Kid #2. As the father of two middle-school-aged boys, I&#39;ve heard all this before (except the bit about the massages, thankfully).
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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AT A TIME when children and young people in inner cities are increasingly finding the natural world an alien environment, a small south London charity is using horticulture to help troubled teenagers re-engage with society.
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could prove an invaluable way of increasing their access to services.
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In this new, kid-centric House of Pelosi, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is not a bit self-conscious about trying to raise her young family from afar while serving in Congress.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - All 10-year-old Carolyn Lipsick wanted to do was help kids hurt by the tsunami, because, she says, "you can't just think of yourself, you have to think of other people." She had several ideas.
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Is showbiz philanthropy a kind of righteous one-upmanship with public relations benefits? Or is it smart fund-raising?
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The number of Americans who volunteer to mentor students, beautify neighborhoods and pitch in after disasters is at a 30-year high, fueled in part by a boom in teen participation, a new study says.