When we avoid discomfort, we miss the opportunity to learn from it. When we don’t listen to our emotions, we fail to hear ...

Andrea Burns uses social-emotional learning books in her classroom. A Kansas teacher is raising awareness about a teaching method that she says is helping students tap into their mental health and ...

Growing up isn’t easy. Kids are faced with all kinds of decisions, hurdles and a constant attempt to understand who they are and where they fit in the world. Reading books that address these issues ...

A quick scroll through Twitter will attest that many adults have an imperfect command of their emotions. So children ages 4-8 may not be the only beneficiaries of a stack of picture books about strong ...

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and leading scholar in the field of emotion regulation, illuminates the power that lies in the space between ...

Jane Turner Goldsmith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

TULSA, Okla. — Kalea Ellison never imagined she would write children’s books. It just happened naturally. Ellison said it started when she was babysitting her friend’s kids. “They picked a book to ...

According to Charles Darwin—famous for his revolutionary theory of evolution and natural selection—a small number of basic, universal emotions have evolved in humans and animals because emotions help ...

The Art of Inside Out 2 art book (Chronicle Books, on sale now) picks the brains of the creatives who thought up the expansion of Riley’s emotions, plus the new emotions who didn’t make the final cut.

In a Netherlands zoo, an elderly chimpanzee named Mama is weak and dying. Elderly biology professor Jan van Hooff, who has known the primate for four decades, enters Mama’s enclosure—something usually ...

Teaching toddlers and preschoolers about emotions doesn’t have to be complicated. Emotions Sensory Bottles are a fun, calming, and creative way to introduce your child to feelings in a safe, hands-on ...