Parenting isn't just about navigating your children's emotional ups and downs. We also need to work with our own big feelings ...
Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...
Teaching your child about four foundational emotions—anger, sadness, fear, and jealousy—can help them build a lifelong emotional vocabulary. Naming and normalizing feelings gives kids the language ...
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 ...
As a parent and psychologist, I think constantly about the daily emotional challenges children face in 2020. We are enduring profound losses of life, economic security, social connections, educational ...