“We’re trained to use toys as tools—that’s what separates us from a typical playgroup,” she explained. “We break child development down into many steps, small pieces of big milestones.

Many toys were different in the past. Let’s look at what they were like 100 years ago. This may be when your great-great-grandparents were alive. Image caption, A bedroom with toys from 100 ...

John Scritchfield is the creative director for the Calvin Theatre Company at Calvin University. It’s his dream job. “This is absolutely everything I wanted to do from when I was 18. When I got... Ruth ...

by Ellen Lee and Wirecutter Staff We spent more than 30 hours trying 35 recommendations from experts, educators, and parents to pick the best learning and STEM toys. Here's what we found.

Calvin and Hobbes is often considered a timeless comic strip. Any reader can still enjoy the strip the way Bill Watterson ...

If you want to foster your child’s independent learning and play, Montessori-inspired toys can help them confidently engage with the world on their own. Sami Krasny, a play-based education ...

As a member of the Calvin community, you are living out the university’s story every day. We put that life-changing work into words, images and other media to keep the story going—attracting brilliant ...

The holiday shopping season can afford an opportunity to make extra money flipping toys as parents and grandparents begin a mad scramble to track down and purchase the year’s hottest items.

As the world gets more connected through the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and computers feature more and better machine intelligence (artificial intelligence – AI), the world of children’s toys in modern ...

Calvin comes to Vermont from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Calvin is Channel 3's political reporter, covering the Legislature and state government. Before working at WCAX, Calvin spent two years ...