Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or ...

CNN — Awkwardness and big feelings? You must be talking about middle school. And while many parents assume that middle school is a rite of passage that kids need to stoically tough out, the opposite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parenting—although rewarding and transformational—is not easy. Any child can be a handful any given day of the week and, ...

Anjali sat at the kitchen table in front of a blank piece of paper. She sat, and sat, and sat. Then she got up from the table and walked away. The unfinished task? A Valentine’s card for her ...

In a recent consult, the parents of a seven-year-old, who by nature is a very big reactor, shared that after a lot of hard work managing their own emotions and being less reactive to him when he is ...

We've built an increasingly granular emotional vocabulary for children. These days, there are feelings charts in classrooms, books about managing big emotions, and entire pedagogies built around ...

Capturing elusive feelings in words and pictures is the central project, and the greatest challenge, of a children’s book. For young people led by their tender hearts, a book that understands those ...

Back in the 1990s, when we were raising our kids, we already felt under siege from a world of information overload. In that decade, five times as many parenting books were published than parents had ...

Parenting—although rewarding and transformational—is not easy. Any child can be a handful any given day of the week and, unfortunately, there aren’t always quick, easy fixes for every challenge that ...