How Do Young People Really Feel about Technology?
Young people don’t love their devices as much as we think they do. In fact, they want our help disconnecting from them.
How to Know if You’ve Married the Wrong Person
Christine Carter has clearly married the wrong man—again. Or did she?
How to Reduce the Impact of Childhood Trauma
Children who experience adversity tend to have health problems later in life. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains why—and how we can help heal…
Can Losing a Loved One Make You More Grateful?
Research suggests that loss can remind us of the preciousness of life—a lesson that one researcher learned firsthand.
Seven Insights to Help You Make Sense of Gun Violence
Research can help us understand why guns are killing more Americans—and what we can do to stop it.
How to Help Gratitude Grow in Your Kids
How do children learn to be grateful? Child development research explores ways that we can support this process.
Why We Should Help Boys Embrace All Their Feelings
We encourage a narrower range of emotions in boys than girls—and that can be harmful in the long run.
How to Stop Being a Control Freak
The desire for control is a form of perfectionism, and we can alleviate it by learning to embrace uncertainty.
How to Know if You’ve Married the Wrong Person
Christine Carter has clearly married the wrong man—again. Or did she?
How to Stop Being a Control Freak
The desire for control is a form of perfectionism, and we can alleviate it by learning to embrace uncertainty.
Why We Should Help Boys Embrace All Their Feelings
We encourage a narrower range of emotions in boys than girls—and that can be harmful in the long run.
How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.
Our Best Education Articles of 2017
Readers and editors pick the most interesting, helpful, and skillfully written articles about teaching, students, and schools from the past year.
How Parents Can Start to Reconcile with Estranged Kids
In his latest guest blog post, psychologist Joshua Coleman explains that to repair a relationship with estranged children, parents today need…
How to Help Your Kids Get Organized Without Nagging
Positive encouragement and patience are key to helping your child learn organizational skills.
The Cost of Blaming Parents
Anger toward parents is still at the heart of a great deal of therapy. But has this approach gone too far?