children

What is the minimum age that you can leave a child at home alone in Maine?

If you're raising a child or children here in Maine, you apparently in a good place, as we ranked #6 in the country - we'll take that! It was our neighbors just to the south of us that took gold metal though.

When it comes to treating your lawn for pests, which is more harmful for your pets and children, the pests or the pesticides?

This is an aggregate of children's books that take place or are about Maine.

If you need help deciphering your Maine teen's fresh new lingo, one local woman has got you covered.

You see, all of my kids like to practice with markers. All of them. One, in particular, likes to use the youngest as a living piece of paper.

The Maine Department of Transportation went to kids to see what signs they'd come up with.

A couple and two young children who got stranded out on the ice on Moosehead Lake during a severe snowstorm Tuesday night were rescued by the Maine Warden Service.

This list of 2023 Baby Name Trends is based on the most-viewed names, in addition to official U.S. naming data from the Social Security office.

Take a look back more than a hundred years at these photos which captured the ways children and "grown-ups" played in the snow.