Kids have big feelings and sometimes they express them in pretty big and disruptive ways. How can we help when our child is grappling with something but doesn’t have the words to describe the problem?

Ever wondered what’s really going on in your child’s mind? Kids might not always talk about their feelings, but their actions ...

Photo credit: Smart Love Family Services and The Natalie G. Heineman Smart Love Preschool Most of us were probably raised on timeouts if we were “naughty” or didn’t always “listen” to our parents.

It's the weekend and your schedule is jam-packed—Friday night movie night, Saturday morning soccer followed by a birthday party and then a Sunday afternoon playdate. But you're not stressed about ...

Today, a growing movement of mindful families is choosing to notice those patterns with kindness and rewrite them with ...

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 could ...

Every parent wants to know their child feels secure, but kids rarely spell it out. Instead, they drop little hints through their actions and body language. Sometimes, it’s easy to overlook these ...

The other night, while driving with my 8-year-old daughter, I explained to her that I was having a particularly overwhelming day, and that the song we were listening to was making me sad. “If you want ...

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 ...

What parent hasn’t been there? It’s been a long day, you still have dinner to make, maybe lunches for tomorrow too, and you just don’t have the energy to wrangle your kids into a new art project or ...

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 could ...