With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to...

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

The parents of high-reactive children are exceedingly lucky, Belsky told me. The time and effort they invest will actually make a difference. Instead of seeing these kids as vulnerable to adversity,...

Back to these young criminals - They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes.

Parental behavioral factors - including fathers who are responsive and positive, mothers who favor "self - directed child behavior," and parents with emotional intimacy in their marriages - influence...

Building resilience depends on the opportunities children have and the relationships they form with parents, caregivers, teachers, and friends. We can start by helping children develop four core...

If our parents do not fare well and we are constantly frustrated because our needs are not met, we can end up with a conscious or unconscious sense of worthlessness, helplessness, and a mistrust of...

Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on - let's see here - June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother....

Mama's voice was surprisingly calm and caring. As you can imagine, this worried the girl a great deal. She'd have preferred to hear them arguing. Whispering adults hardly inspired confidence.

We are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

I was not sure if, having been told such lies as children, they could not differentiate between truth and lies, or whether it was a survival method they had mastered.

Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted...

The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are likely to stay with us the longest.

Guidance, also a part of helping the infant and child to develop and grow, may include advice, assistance, and any other form of help, verbal or non-verbal. It also includes modeling and teaching...

Children are not coloring books. We cannot fill them with our favorite colors.

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your casual gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves...

Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely...