When kids feel bombarded by difficult emotions, they may feel a sense of helplessness, as if there is nothing they can do to pull themselves out of the storm. As parents, we know effective strategies ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Kids often need help channeling their emotions into productive actions, which ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Helping kids navigate their emotions is a skill that may not come naturally to many parents. After all, we as parents often forget that our children are complex beings who ...

Anxiety, at right — pictured here with Joy — is one of the new emotions in Inside Out 2 and really steals the show. (Pixar) The Disney Pixar film, out June 14, introduces five new emotions, including ...

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.

The popular notion of "quality time" with children is a myth, often leading to parental guilt. Children actually need ...

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 ...

We've built an increasingly granular emotional vocabulary for children. These days, there are feelings charts in classrooms, ...

Most kids and their parents hate homework, or at best don’t see the point of it. Teachers are not that fond of homework either, but they are expected to assign it. I will not be reviewing the merits ...