As a professor of child development and family science, every year I witness college students heading home for the holidays ...

Want to be a better parent, friend or colleague? There’s a simple lesson from psychologists that you can adopt right now to improve your relationships ― no matter the age of the person who is ...

Getting kids to follow directions, showing respect to parents, and trusting parents enough to open up and share details and experiences from their lives depend on many factors. A major factor is the ...

My childhood was far from ideal. I endured multiple prolonged traumatic experiences, often described as complex trauma, but what weighed most heavily on me as a child was the constant turmoil within ...

Building a new tradition, like volunteering once a month together.

There’s a moment, toward the end of a parent’s trip to drop their child off at college, when it feels like the world is changing. Many describe the joy and loss that mingle in those five minutes ...

It's only natural to want to be seen as a great parent. After all, parents have the important job of raising happy, healthy children. But the truth is that parenting is a lot more complicated than ...