Every parent knows the scenario: you say it’s time to leave the birthday party or playdate, and your kid starts to tantrum. Or, your kid faces a setback at school, and they’re so hard on themselves ...

Supporting a child through intense emotions while managing your own is challenging work. Part of this is to practise ...

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 ...

What if we had an infinite emotional sandbox at our disposal? A place where we could play out scenarios and explore our emotional consciousness without facing any consequences — to better understand ...

Over the years of educating parents, teachers and caregivers about early childhood development, we've received many questions about how to raise emotionally intelligent kids. Kids with high emotional ...

Please see the full scientific report here, or watch a short video about the paper here. What can pretend play, drama, and role play do for very young children? When kids pretend they are using their ...

“Feelings…nothing more than feelings…” Sounds so soothing, doesn’t it? Except feelings can get pretty big and even scary when they’re radiating from small children. Who hasn’t been blown away by the ...

Managing emotions is probably one of the greatest challenges facing every individual. You only have to look on the Internet to see a large number of adults who are easily carried away by their ...

Raising a toddler means dealing with many emotions. At this age, your child is just beginning to understand what feelings are and how to deal with them. Emotional intelligence is about helping them ...

I grew up in the 1980s and '90s with parents who strictly controlled my "screen time," which almost exclusively meant TV back then, as well as a pocket game that died when I was 10 and was never ...