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Elizabeth Winchester

Elizabeth Siris Winchester has written for TIME For Kids for almost 20 years. She graduated from Middlebury College, in Vermont, and earned a master’s degree in teaching from New York University. Liz has covered a range of topics for TFK, from bullying, bats, and butterflies, to amazing kids and groundbreaking figures. She also helped develop a TFK cooking show. Liz loves running, yoga, baking, music, dogs, and especially spending time with family and friends.

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Puppy Love

June 4, 2025

Teddie McGinley gets paid to walk. Better yet, she gets to spend time with friendly—and furry—clients. She’s a professional dog-walker. Each week, McGinley and her two employees walk an 20 to 30 canines in and around Sea Cliff, New York.…

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Music Man

April 14, 2025

How do business leaders figure out what goods and services people want to buy? They do market research, which means looking at information about products in the marketplace. Market research is an important part of Rob Dekker’s role as vice…

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Officer’s Best Friend

October 9, 2024

Matthew Cona, 12, aspires to be a K-9 handler. Here, he speaks with a retired officer about the job. As a police officer in Nassau County, New York, Mike LaSala had partners who didn’t talk. They were covered in fur.…

Health

A Rise in Allergies

January 17, 2019

Carson Tucker, 10, loves baseball, drumming, and tae kwon do. What he doesn't love, he told TFK, is "when I can't eat the same things my friends are eating." That happens often, because Carson has food allergies. He is one…

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A Cool School

November 4, 2016

For most kids, a typical school day includes lessons in math, science, and English language arts. But for Callista Grant, 11, a typical day might also include instruction in American Indian drumming and dancing. She studies the Ojibwe (oh-jib-way) and Lakota languages,…

Arts

Star Ballerina

February 5, 2016

A basketball court is an odd place to dance ballet—or for a star ballerina to be discovered. But it was on a court at a Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro, California, that Misty Copeland took her first ballet…