Ready to help your little ones explore the big world of emotions? These fun and engaging feelings activities for kids are ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Mighty Makers" is a program designed by therapists at the Parkside Psychiatric Hospital to teach children how to better understand their emotions. Therapists say they began to notice a need for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luckily, we are not completely bound by our biology, and one of the key predictors of emotional competence happens to be something that parents can do at home, which is to talk about emotions with ...

After a full summer of vacations and playtime, it’s time to hit the books again. While many kids anticipate the first day of school with excitement, for some, that first day can be stressful. “The ...

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.

Last week I was outside in the backyard with my 4-year-old son, immersed in conversation about his swim lesson that upcoming Saturday. We were talking about how excited he was about the lesson, how he ...