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 ...

Have you ever told your child not to cry or said, "Don't be sad"? It's a common instinct for loving parents who want their children to be happy. But the truth is, being happy 100% of the time is ...

When kids feel bombarded by difficult emotions, they may feel a sense of helplessness, as if there is nothing they can do to pull themselves out of the storm. As parents, we know effective strategies ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Halloween is one of the most exciting (and, for kids, possibly spookiest) nights of the year. Parents and caregivers of younger children may have the difficult task of ...

This is the second installment in a series on understanding and supporting highly sensitive (HS) children. You can find the first edition here. Today, I focus on how to help HS children manage their ...

Tantrums are normal for toddlers, even legendary. Toddlers feel so passionately about everything, and they simply don't have enough frontal cortex capacity yet to control themselves when they're upset ...