Parents who lack support often think their struggles are a sign of failure. The US Surgeon General recently declared parental stress a public health crisis. Parents are motivated to make things better ...

Many children grow up dreaming – or maybe even expecting – that they will become a star in football, basketball or whatever their favorite sport may be. Most parents have more realistic expectations ...

Researchers from the Netherlands conducted a qualitative study to explore parental motivations, expectations, and experiences of off-hours primary care contacts for children with acute gastroenteritis ...

Parental expectations come with a double-edged sword. On the one hand, we want to set reasonable expectations, especially for our kids, because we want them to know we believe in them. We want to be ...

Talking about sex can be awkward — especially when you are having conversations about expectations for your teens’ sex lives. Even if you’ve been having healthy conversations about sex and boundaries ...

While teaching a parenting class to a group of counseling students, the question came up whether parental expectations were ever a good thing. The consensus in this class of young adults was that ...

Aleysha Ortiz graduated from Hartford High School without being able to read or write. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror The CT Mirror’s account of Aleysha Ortiz, who graduated from Hartford High ...

NEWSCENTER FIVE. KATIE. THANK YOU. FIVE ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH TONIGHT. GIVING YOUR KIDS WHAT THEY REALLY WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. JOINING US NOW WITH SOME IDEAS IS DOCTOR ERIKA, A PSYCHOLOGIST AT BOSTON ...

Change is the law of living things, the constant process that keeps upsetting and resetting the terms of our existence all the time. Moment to moment, one day to the next, our lives are in constant ...

Even the most available, loving parents will cause their kids some amount of harm. Although there's a marked difference between small traumas and big traumas, we still need our parents to validate ...