With the help of animal characters, educators can help children navigate big feelings with mindfulness and self-compassion.

In a recent consult, the parents of a seven-year-old, who by nature is a very big reactor, shared that after a lot of hard work managing their own emotions and being less reactive to him when he is ...

Explore children’s unique ways of thinking, feeling, behaving, and being in the world, and then help them better manage their ...

As they grow, children are far more sensitive than we often realise. They think deeply, feel deeply, and observe quietly. Yet many of them rarely speak openly about what is hurting them. They smile, ...

There's a difference between intent vs. impact.

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(CNN) — If you’re a parent or guardian, you’ve heard about the importance of respecting your child’s feelings. Teaching our kids can help them work through the negative emotions they experience as ...

When a child’s feelings are repeatedly ignored, the impact is rarely loud or immediate. It does not always show up as rebellion or defiance. More often, it settles quietly into the way a child sees ...