Everyone makes mistakes and children are no exception. What's important is how we learn from them. Yet, children grow up in a society that pressures them to be perfect and intelligent - to achieve the ...

It's easy to want to be the perfect parent when you have kids, but making mistakes as a parent is pretty natural. In fact, it's part of the equation for raising successful kids, developmental ...

Many adults believe in punishment, whether it’s timeouts, spanking, or loss of privileges. “Kids need consequences for bad behavior,” parents often tell me. Young children do need us to pay attention ...

I noticed my oldest daughter was relying on me more and more. She told me I had to let her sink or swim, and I knew she was right. When my youngest daughter started struggling too I had a hard time ...

There are many lessons we've learned in life that's come directly from our parents. Things like how to manage money, setting boundaries with people, and learning when to walk away from things that don ...

In the late 1980s, the Biosphere 2 project sealed a team of scientists inside a self-sustaining miniature world. Their goal was to see if a closed system could support human life, serving as a ...

Needless to say, this isn’t the first time this has happened. It’s ironic considering that the very purpose of my work is to help others use emotional intelligence to avoid making mistakes like this.