Though we often think of anger as a negative emotion, it actually has evolved in humans for positive reasons. Anger leads you towards responses that help you overcome obstacles, alerts you to danger ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I attended two touring Broadway shows, and many families were at each performance. For one show, some people wore costumes: Across from me, a child had on a rather large hat the ...

“How can I get my child to understand what she is doing online isn’t right? My teenager thinks I am over-reacting when I warn her to watch what she posts online. She says, 'Everyone is doing it. It’s ...

Children don’t just learn empathy and compassion from formal lessons; they absorb them through daily life. The small acts of kindness they see and experience within the home create lasting impressions ...

Navy Lieutenant Grace Hopper found a moth tangled in the mechanical switches of the massive Harvard Mark I computer. While others would have simply removed the bug and resumed operations, Hopper did ...

Teaching kids how to share, take turns and be considerate of others is often top of mind for parents and caregivers. But kids also need to learn to how be assertive and stand up for themselves — even ...

There’s no such thing as a “perfect parent,” but there are incredibly important ways for parents to show up for their kids — teaching them empathy, compassion, trust, respect, and honesty in ways that ...

Especially in recent decades, where both parents are working full-time jobs, many studies, like one published in the Review of General Psychology, argue that fatherly love and interaction is ...