Psychologists who study how parents respond to children's emotions have found that punitive reactions to a child's distress—threatening consequences for crying, for example—teach kids to suppress ...

Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator, and the librarian at Dorr Elementary School in Dorr, Mich.

I love my kids fiercely, but I've learned that loving them doesn't mean absorbing every mood swing, meltdown, or emotional storm they have.

It now reaches more than one third of all Oregon children age 5 and under, nearly 74,000 in all. It delivers great books, and it's free.

We are raising a generation with little understanding of how to build financial mindsets both for independence and a flourishing adult life.

Marissa Nivison receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Gizem Keskin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

Oh so gently, fourth grader Paxon Leong moves a long paddle up, down, left and right to roll a ball into a hole at a table’s end. Finally he releases a jiggle of joy after many quiet fails. "It was ...

FROM JEFFERSON HILLS. STUDENTS AT MCCLELLAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAD THE CHANCE TO CHILL OUT. IT’S ALL THANKS TO A CHILL MOBILE, WHICH TEACHES KIDS HOW TO DEAL WITH THEIR EMOTIONS. IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE ...