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Daycare

A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (US)

A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...

5 min read

Daycare

A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (UK)

A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...

5 min read

Daycare

A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (Global)

A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...

5 min read

Parenting

How to Talk to Children About Feelings Safely

The instinct to soothe a crying child by saying "you're okay" is so deeply wired that it takes deliberate work to override. The reason to override it...

7 min read

Parenting

Teaching Children to Recognize Their Own Emotions

Your 4-year-old is on the floor screaming about a sock. You ask what they're feeling and they look at you like you've asked them to do calculus. They...

5 min read

Family Life

Sibling Jealousy: Causes and Signs

The first time your two-year-old hits the new baby, or "accidentally" sits on the bouncer, or sweetly whispers "go back" — most parents are surprised...

7 min read

Emotions

Newborn Reflexes vs. Real Emotional Responses

A two-week-old smiles. Their mother is convinced it's the first sign of recognition. The grandmother says it's gas. The pediatrician says it's a refle...

5 min read

Daycare

Saying Goodbye to a Daycare: Emotional Considerations

Leaving a daycare your child loved — for a move, a school transition, or a change in care arrangements — is a real ending. By the time a child has bee...

6 min read

Daycare

A Child's Emotional State After Daycare

A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...

5 min read

Emotions

Emotional Intelligence in Toddlers: Building Awareness from the Start

The phrase "emotional intelligence" has been used so broadly in popular culture that it has almost lost meaning. But the underlying research is solid:...

4 min read

Emotions

Teaching Children to Win and Lose: Why Sportsmanship Starts at the Kitchen Table

You're playing snakes and ladders with a four-year-old. Things are going their way until they slide down the long snake on square 87. Suddenly the rul...

8 min read