When her daughters have arguments or spats, former first lady Michelle Obama doesn't want to get involved. Obama used an intentionally hands-off parenting philosophy to teach her daughters Malia and ...

Part of life is growing up from a child into an adult. It's a process in which we learn from our mistakes and work through our problems to get the skills necessary for the next part of our lives.

Parenting often carries with it a natural instinct to protect a child from all the problems they encounter in their lives. When a child faces a minor problem, such as a fight with a friend or a ...

When my son was a baby, I swore I’d never let him watch PAW Patrol. At the time, I thought of it as the kind of TV show I didn’t want my child to become obsessed with: noisy and overstimulating. But ...

It turns out that teaching kids problem solving may be among the most promising and proven practices to prevent bullying and reduce the odds of victimization. It is a strategy often overlooked, but ...

Anyone who has watched children play has seen it happen. A group needs to decide on a game, a rule, a direction, or a plan. One child jumps in first. Another hesitates, watches, and reacts. A third ...

Kim Louis told the kids gathered at United Presbyterian Church of New Kensington to pretend they were on a tropical island, somewhere green and warm. Then imagine an impending snowstorm threatened to ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

I am concerned about the declining U.S. birth rate. To help fix it, we should make birthday parties normal again! Just kidding. But really, everyone’s standard for what a child needs is way too high.