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 ...

Raising kids who openly talk about their feelings starts with emotional intelligence, not just good intentions. These five essential parenting habits help children understand their emotions and ...

Emotions are powerful motivators that drive human behavior, but how much is too much? It's crucial to strike a balance between acknowledging them and not letting them take the wheel of our lives.

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 ...

Recent controversy over the role of social media “swarms” in the 2020 election have served as a new reminder — as if we needed one — that public discourse is in bad disrepair. In the last few years ...

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.

The most recent Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey data, from 2021, show that suffering only increasing. The percentage ...

It’s that time of year when many parents across the U.S. see their kids head off to college or leave home to start their working lives. For parents and guardians, experts say, the separation from ...