Kids often express their feelings and thoughts through their behavior. All behavior is a form of communication—and sometimes, ...

For Alyssa Blask Campbell, children’s behavior is not an isolated phenomenon but a symbiotic, ever-changing system. The ...

Kids are expert observers of behavior. They can pick up traits, habits, and lifelong behaviors easily — just by watching their own parents. It is part of a child's job description to learn from the ...

Most parents know the frustration of dealing with a child's unexpected public tantrum. But parents are often too quick to call out their child's negative behavior — chastising them for that ...

Defense mechanisms help us protect ourselves from uncomfortable feelings, especially ones that might become intense and overwhelming. Therapists are well-acquainted with how defenses work, and we ...

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the brain, but so far experts have agreed that our thoughts, feelings and behavior are the result of billions of interconnected neurons that transmit signals to ...

This is hard because sometimes parents do these things accidentally because they're tired or they're exhausted." ...

Often, they are communicating something they do not yet have the language to explain. When parents meet that moment with ...