Discounting restaurant reservation clerks, the true popularity contest in which Mr. Leatherman shines tends to be around his elementary-school-age children.

During the summer months, about one-third of the elementary-school-age children of working parents are cared for by teenage or adult relatives, according to the institute, while 24 percent participate in organized programs like day camps.

The town achieved national notoriety in February 2006 when a number of parents of elementary-school-age children criticized a local teacher for showing children a video featuring Gounod's classic opera Faust.

The Baby Devoro toilet, 10 1/4 inches high, was designed for toddlers and elementary-school-age children.

GUS'S media age status was certified the other morning when a group of elementary-school-age children were told by their teacher, "This was the bear that was on television."

Rites to Play has in recent years brought elementary-school-age children to the campus.

Game designer Chris Crawford disparages the concept of interactive movies, except those aimed at elementary-school-age children, in his book Chris Crawford on Game Design.

As a result, some elementary-school-age children plan what they will wear to their funerals; their older siblings mark their dead on memorial walls painted by graffiti artists and grow increasingly listless about their futures.

Cathy Aull, who has four elementary-school-age children in the district, said that "as the numbers in a class go up, the quality of education will go down."

The Web site is geared to elementary-school-age children, with young-adult material to be added in the future.