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 ...

"These kids become more emotionally intelligent, which helps them weather setbacks, embrace independence and try new things," ...

When life gets challenging—whether due to a family illness or troubling news online—helping kids express their emotions can feel overwhelming. Learn practical, age-appropriate strategies from Friends ...

This screen time can actually be beneficial.

Managing emotions is probably one of the greatest challenges facing every individual. You only have to look on the Internet to see a large number of adults who are easily carried away by their ...

Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or excitement, that they are not always able to regulate on their own.

You can intentionally teach your child how to experience, recognize, and deal with emotions. It will be one of the greatest gifts you can give them. It will also be key to their resilience.

Music is a powerful tool for conveying mood, whether heard via a live performance or movie soundtrack, making it an effective medium for understanding how people identify and respond to emotions.

In our previous post, we discussed the first three things we know about raising great kids. In addition to attachment and empathy, we know that in order to raise great kids they also need emotion ...

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.

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. A couple of years ago I was at the ophthalmologist with my six-year-old daughter. The optician asked me ...