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

When parents don't follow through or keep their word, their kids learn problematic lessons about what they can get away with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Want to be a better parent, friend or colleague? There’s a simple lesson from psychologists that you can adopt right now to ...

Having secure, kind, and resilient children is a parent's ultimate dream. But when difficulties arise — how do we navigate the storms? Attachment therapist Eli Harwood advises parents on the ...

Source: "Stay a child while you can be a child" by Rachel Samanyi / Flickr CC by 2.0 As a parent, you want your child to behave in certain ways – smart, fun, polite, careful. Sometimes, they do, but ...

One of our key jobs as parents is to teach instead of punish, even when our children are pushing back, melting down, or otherwise being "difficult." We know it's hard: We've been there plenty of times ...

AMES, Iowa – Most parents carefully select what television programs and movies their children can watch. But a study in the latest Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology found that even ...

Flexible curriculum model allows real-time response to evolving social challenges faced by children, teens, and adults in group settings Social demands shift rapidly based on peer composition, school ...

Discussions of masking in the adult autism community have taken place for decades. Masking refers to the suppression of autistic traits and the adoption of behaviors to appear more neurotypical. I ...

There has always been a cultural gap between parents and their children. But arguably this divide has grown over the past decade or more as digital natives are born with no concept of a life without ...