Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or excitement, that they are not always able to regulate on their own.

As parents, one of our greatest motivations is to protect our children from pain and suffering—in essence, from negative emotions. Nonetheless, despite our best efforts, our children will be ...

We've built an increasingly granular emotional vocabulary for children. These days, there are feelings charts in classrooms, books about managing big emotions, and entire pedagogies built around ...