Of all the germs kids are exposed to on the playground, there’s one they freak out about more than any other: cooties. The word first appeared during World War I as soldiers’ slang for the ...

I'm willing to bet the last time you thought of kissing as gross was back when you were a kid. It was also probably around the same time we girls thought you boys came with cooties. Then you grow ...

Kids love games of exclusion. This usually manifests itself in games of ‘keep away,’ having someone ‘catch cooties,’ or the ever-popular ‘No Brian club.’ [Rob] wrote in to tell us ...