4 Easy Ways to Build Your Child’s Self Esteem With Your Words
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others." – Haim Ginott Children rely on us to interpret the world: "That's…
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others." – Haim Ginott Children rely on us to interpret the world: "That's…
Sometimes, your child has a friend over, and things don’t go well. That happened at our house recently. For the first hour of the visit, I heard heated voices, and…
“When they were fighting over ownership of something I would say ‘Jacob, say... ‘Excuse me Sarah, when you're finished may I have a turn please?’’ and then wait for him…
When our kids get angry, it pushes buttons for most of us. We're not perfect, but we try to be loving parents. Why is our child lashing out like this?…
In our family, ’tis the season for flu shots; in every family, shots happen — at nearly every trip to the doctor until age 4, and at intervals thereafter. Rare…
The homework wars among education wonks, teachers and parents don’t, as my friend and colleague Bruce Feiler writes in “The Homework Squabbles,” his This Life column for Sunday Styles, matter…
“Make sure you play fairly,” parents often say to their kids. In fact, children do not need encouragement to be fair. It is a natural feature of human social life,…
My five-year-old daughter flipped out this morning when she learned that she needed to get a blood test. While I’m not a big fan of tearful wailing at 8:00 AM,…
When Harvard University’s Making Caring Common Project released their report, “The Children We Mean to Raise: The Real Messages Adults Are Sending About Values,” many parents and educators — myself…
‘Tis the season of chore-time slackerdom. School is starting again, practice for fall sports is in full swing, and, inevitably, it’s simply no longer possible for children of any age…