Teaching your child about four foundational emotions—anger, sadness, fear, and jealousy—can help them build a lifelong emotional vocabulary. Naming and normalizing feelings gives kids the language ...

When we talk to a good friend about a problem, we tend to feel better. This usually has less to do with the friend’s advice—if they even offer any—and more to do with their simply listening and ...

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 ...

Revisiting a book repeatedly helps children develop a sophisticated understanding of what emotions look and feel like.

Aug. 19—(Family Features) Little children experience big emotions. When things don't go as planned or they feel overstimulated or face new experiences, children may respond with anger and frustration, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Helping kids navigate their emotions is a skill that may not come naturally to many parents. After all, we as parents often forget that our children are complex beings who ...

Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or excitement, that they are not always able to regulate on their own.

It can be difficult to socialize and make friends for many children with autism. Often that's because reading body language and others' emotions doesn't always come easily. Many of us seem to learn ...

Feelings like anger, grief, pain and even intense excitement are overwhelming even for adults. For children, who do not yet have the emotional or neurological development to understand or handle these ...