Managing emotions is probably one of the greatest challenges facing every individual. You only have to look on the Internet to see a large number of adults who are easily carried away by their ...

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 ...

The following are a few ideas for improving self-regulation skills for you and your children. Self-regulation is the ability to think about your long-term best interests so you can calm your emotional ...

Children enter the world without any built-in emotional filter. In their earliest stages, they are entirely open: they cry freely when hungry or uncomfortable, shout out when frustrated, cling tightly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To raise emotionally healthy kids, parents must face and work through their own feelings. - ChayTee/iStockphoto/Getty Images If ...

Over the years of educating parents, teachers and caregivers about early childhood development, we've received many questions about how to raise emotionally intelligent kids. Kids with high emotional ...

Elementary school teachers have noticed that their students don’t have the coping strategies to self-regulate—or manage their emotions and behaviors—that previous generations had. More than 8 in 10 ...

Why do many educators feel ill-equipped to teach social-emotional learning? An EdWeek Research Center survey names the dilemma plainly: The leading challenge is that students’ emotional needs feel ...

As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

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 they grow ...