Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

Many of us learned the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in grade school. You will recall that once the mother pig sent her little pigs off into the world, the first pig built his house with straw. The ...

Hardbound story books may be going the way of the pay phone but clearly not the act of parents reading to their children. For example, a recent Pew Research Center survey (Miller, Zickhur, Rainie, & ...

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

The story of Atlantis starts not with archaeologists or ancient ruins, but with a philosopher sitting in Athens around 360 BCE. Plato, one of history's most influential thinkers, introduced this ...

Stories of divine intervention have existed across cultures for centuries. From rescuing devotees in moments of danger to ...

Life is a powerful teacher—but it is also an expensive one. Some lessons arrive only after loss, regret, or years of emotional wear. Experience teaches, yes, but it often teaches late, quietly, and ...