There are plenty of behaviors to be worried about in children, but you don't have to worry about everything. Knowing what ...

Praise and rewards can be an effective way to change kids' behavior for the better. Here's how to use them.

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Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) involves powerful emotions and behaviors that are difficult to manage. A study sheds ...

My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but ...

New research shows father-child interactions and fathers' coparenting were predictive of long-term child health outcomes.

Words have a direct impact on the formation of a child’s identity. By labelling children, for example categorising them as “lazy” or “clever”, we may actually be doing them a disservice. We might see ...

Peer pressure can affect your child's behavior in positive and negative ways. Here's what you should know about helping your ...

As one of the UK's leading child behavioural experts, Marie Gentles OBE has an empathetic solution for most parenting problems. A former head teacher at a pupil referral unit, she is currently a ...

When children steal, naturally parents can be very concerned. They might wonder if they’ve taught their child correctly, whether it’s just a phase or whether they’re going to have a young offender on ...

In close to three decades of teaching special education at the Nicholson STEM Academy in Chicago, Winnie William-Halls had never taken a long break from her career. That changed last year—and it was ...