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?

Anger and anxiety–we (parents, therapists, and teachers) are quick to react to and try to suppress these kinds of emotions when we notice them in neurodevelopmentally atypical children and teens. At ...

Starting the day with positive affirmations can significantly impact children's emotional well-being and daily performance.

Building positive relationships with their children is the goal of every parent. You've worked so hard to raise your children ...

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 ...

Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...

Parents today are so terrified of invalidating their kids that they often swing like a pendulum in the opposite direction, training their kids that their emotions should be the center of the universe.