A transgender boy has received a new birth certificate from the Canadian province of Alberta officially recognising his sex as male. » 6/17/14 10:52pm 6/17/14 10:52pm

Students at Vanier Catholic Secondary School in Whitehorse, Yukon have finally established a Gay-Straight Alliance, and more than half of the graduating class showed their support for the group by wearing rainbow socks to graduation. » 6/03/14 5:37pm 6/03/14 5:37pm

The Times of India has reported that Sunday morning, Malavath Purna, a 13-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh in India became the youngest woman to climb Mount Everest after a 52-day expedition. Led by ten Nepalese guides, Purna and another student, 16-year-old Anand Kumar, ascended the 29,029-foot peak from the… » 5/26/14 1:35pm 5/26/14 1:35pm

Six students have been expelled and six more suspended after administrators at a Bay area Catholic high school discovered the boys had been taking upskirt photos and videos of their teachers. The photos were part of a long-running "competition" between boys at the all-male Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo,… » 5/16/14 2:40pm 5/16/14 2:40pm

Corona Del Mar High School in Orange County, California, has a longstanding tradition called the "prom draft," in which senior boys draw numbers to choose dates from a pool of available girls. Boys also have the opportunity to pay "as much as $140" for a first-round pick, in hopes of "getting" the girl they "want."… » 5/07/14 4:30pm 5/07/14 4:30pm

A teenager is lucky to be alive after stowing away in a dangerous part of a plane on a flight from California to Hawaii. » 4/21/14 9:40am 4/21/14 9:40am

14-year-old Suvir Mirchandani used his science fair project to study ink use in typefaces and came up with the amazing above estimation the US Government could save if they switched from Times New Roman to Garamond typeface in all official documents. But, that was last year's science fair project that's just getting… » 3/29/14 5:00pm 3/29/14 5:00pm

There are so many things about being a parent we just take for granted. Like it's got to be easy to teach your kids that they can't talk to strangers, right? Seems like a no-brainer! But nope. Kids have their own ideas about everything and this little girl proves just how hard moms and dads have to work to teach them… » 3/13/14 10:35pm 3/13/14 10:35pm

Ever concerned with the threat the female form poses to the morality of children, the BBC has issued new wardrobe guidelines for female hosts of kids' programming on the network. Among the banned items? That serial murderer of youthful innocence known as "red lipstick." » 1/29/14 4:51pm 1/29/14 4:51pm

Newsweek just ran a monster-length piece about tween girls and sex called Sex and the Single Tween, finally giving readers access to the enduring question: So are Our Nation's Precious Little Girls sluts, or what? » 1/24/14 6:45pm 1/24/14 6:45pm

If there's one thing grown-ups know about kids, it's AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD WHAT ARE THE KIDS DOING I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT KIIIIIIIIIIDS!!!!!!!!! When media sensationalism meets natural parental anxiety, we get terrifying trend pieces about how sexting is turning middle school into an… » 1/06/14 3:45pm 1/06/14 3:45pm

I'm kind of lukewarm on the "wacky Amazon review" school of comedy at this point—the first umpteen iterations were amusing, but after so much manufactured wackiness you start to crave some genuine wackiness, you know? That's why I can't stop reading this Amazon review of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, which appears to have… » 1/06/14 3:30pm 1/06/14 3:30pm

I've worked with lots of kids and the one thing I've never thought as a child gleefully threw sand at my face and then wiped their entire face on their shirt was "damn, I wish that kid was wearing Stella McCartney right now." Don't get me wrong, kids look adorable in tuxedos and party gowns, but I don't know if they… » 1/04/14 4:30pm 1/04/14 4:30pm

In case you needed any more evidence that dolphins are Just Like Us™, scientists have now observed them deliberately altering their mental states by chewing on toxic puffer fish. Dolphins are GETTING WASTED, you guys. » 12/30/13 6:45pm 12/30/13 6:45pm

When students at Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish, WA found out that their vice principal was being fired for marrying his same-sex partner, they rallied. Students walked out of class yesterday in protest, and today administrators cancelled school because of "snow." LOL, okay. » 12/20/13 7:45pm 12/20/13 7:45pm

Sleepovers are a pretty big part of growing up. They give you an opportunity to socialize, eat pizza and learn to navigate the manipulative cruelty of the real world where someone could dip your hand in warm water to make you pee at literally ANY TIME. But some jerkball parents are coming around to ruin all of that… » 12/18/13 6:15pm 12/18/13 6:15pm