TED Talks Kids and Family

Shimpei Takahashi always dreamed of designing toys. But when he started work as a toy deve... more

Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn't children's books be? In this whimsical talk, award-win... more

Colin Grant has spent a lifetime navigating the emotional landscape between his father’s w... more

Children's book author Jarrett Krosoczka shares the origins of the Lunch Lady graphic nove... more

David Kwong is a magician who makes crossword puzzles -- in other words, a pretty nerdy gu... more

What must our dogs be thinking when they look at us? Poet Billy Collins imagines the inner... more

Marco Tempest uses charming stagecraft to demo EDI, the multi-purpose robot designed to wo... more

The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming -- it's "a giant, candy-colored mon... more

We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to... more

Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don't ... more

There's an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it ... more

In a fun, exciting talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at something unexpected in the sky: dist... more

Maya Penn started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how ... more

McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven... more

Humanity's fine-tuned sense of fear served us well as a young species, giving us laser foc... more

Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his c... more

What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Cha... more

Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human... more

As a young child, Tania Luna left her home in post-Chernobyl Ukraine to take asylum in the... more

Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than t... more

Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music wit... more

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19... more

Remember the days you struggled just to make a yo-yo spin, and if you were really fancy, t... more

Your smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in... more

Imagine an electric vehicle that can get you to work -- or anywhere in a six-mile radius -... more

In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-importa... more

By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it... more