Category: Child Development

Source: lexashka / Adobe Stock It’s hard to pin certain struggles in adulthood on specific experiences in childhood. People with similar upbringings can turn out very different, and kids with completely different…

Raising kids is a difficult, often thankless task, even when things go smoothly: Childhood is basically a constant state of change. The minute you get a handle on one behavior, your child…

Babkirk, S., Rios, V. and Dennis, T.A. (2015). The late positive potential predicts emotion regulation strategy use in school-aged children concurrently and two years later. Developmental Science, 18: 832-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12258 Brooker, R….

Parenting is one of the most meaningful roles we can undertake as we are shaping the future mental health of our children. Today I want to share two longitudinal studies that underscore…

If you’re an adult of a certain age, you probably have lots of stories that start with “When I was a kid.” Although we all had different experiences growing up, what usually…

Source: Lucapbl / Dreamstime free to use In a recent post I contended that a major cause of the continuous rise in teens’ suicides from 1950 to 1990 was a continuous decline…