Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

Research shows Helping children develop healthy habits at a young age can help lower their risk for heart disease, stroke and other major health problems later in life. that a child’s cardiovascular ...

Gretchen Geng works for Flinders University. Big Talks for Little People receives funding from Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation, Little Heroes Foundation, Medibank, BeyondBank, and the ...

Though our town was about three hours south of the path of totality, a celebratory atmosphere permeated the community. One of my kids spent the afternoon constructing a moveable 3D eclipse model, ...

In 2023, in an advisory entitled "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," former surgeon general Vivek Murthy wrote that "social disconnection was far more common than I had realized." And the ...

As a nonprofit that provides mental health care for children ages 3 to 17, Clarity Child Guidance Center has noticed for more than a decade that 90% of our patients have experienced trauma of some ...

Separation from a parent is one of the hardest losses a child can face. Whether the cause is divorce, custody transitions, foster care, illness, death, incarceration, or other family changes, the ...

Choosing clothes is one of the simplest forms of self-expression. Our critic offers advice for guiding kids without constricting them. By Vanessa Friedman The issue when it comes to the parent-child ...

"Just five more minutes of Minecraft first!" your child pleads as you remind them—for the third time—about the science project due tomorrow. Despite having two weeks to work on it, here you are again, ...

It won't happen here. Not at your school. These are the kinds of reassurances that parents want to give their children when something as horrific as a school shooting happens. But here's the problem ...