Self-Control Strategies for School-Age Children
What strategies can children use to facilitate self-control? First, they can choose their physical or social circumstances or change them… More
Child Development
Making Sense of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood
The effect of parental supportive emotion socialization on internalizing symptoms (IS) in early childhood is moderated by child executive function… More
Aggression in Children Makes Sense—Sometimes
The Wall Street Journal: Walk into any preschool classroom and you’ll see that some 4-year-olds are always getting into fights—while… More
A Conversation With the Psychologist Behind ‘Inside Out’
Pacific Standard: Pixar has a proud tradition of taking things that are incapable of expressing human emotion—robots, toys, rats, cars—and… More
Toddlers and Touchscreens: A Science in Development
In the last decade, smartphones and tablets have gone from being rare luxury devices to essential components of everyday life… More
Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out
Slate: Academically overbearing parents are doing great harm. So says Bill Deresiewicz in his groundbreaking 2014 manifesto Excellent Sheep: The… More