As a licensed professional counselor and play therapist working with children ages 3-10, my work focuses on supporting ...
Parents play a major role in how and how much a child’s anxiety is expressed, yet often without guidelines or tools. Society expects parents to teach our children positive behavior, but when do we ...
In a new children’s book from Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi and her coauthor, Madeleine Garner, data collection is presented as a beautiful way for kids (and adults) to process their emotions and the ...
Children don’t just learn empathy and compassion from formal lessons; they absorb them through daily life. The small acts of kindness they see and experience within the home create lasting impressions ...
As Shirley Oldale tucked her 3-year-old son into bed, he said, "I am sad because I wanted to play, and I don't want to go to bed."Oldale, a mother in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, has been teaching ...
As Shirley Oldale tucked her 3-year-old son into bed, he said, “I am sad because I wanted to play, and I don’t want to go to bed.” Oldale, a mother in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, has been teaching ...
New research reveals effective ways to help children manage big emotions. Experts suggest teaching kids to label feelings and modelling calm behaviour. Practicing breathing exercises and mindfulness ...
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 ...
Parents play a major role in how and how much a child’s anxiety is expressed, yet often without guidelines or tools. Society expects parents to teach our children positive behavior, but when do we ...