A quiet, unsmiling little girl with big brown eyes crawls inside a carpeted cubicle, hugs a stuffed teddy bear tight, and turns her head away from the noisy classroom.
Limiting time online ‘won’t protect children’
UK teenagers have some of the highest rates of internet use in the developed world – something that has a strong link to lower levels of well-being. The Education Policy Institute study said restricting usage can prevent children gaining the digital skills and emotional resilience to keep them safe.
Positive parenting may offset brain effects of poverty
A positive parenting style might protect kids from the negative effect that growing up in poverty is thought to have on their brain development, Australian researchers say.
How to Parent “Equally” When One of Your Children Has a Disability
That’s the case for Emma, whose 8-year-old son Roy has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, while her 10-year-old daughter Maya is typically developing.
9 ways parents can help bullied kids learn resilience
Whenever Jessie hung out with her best friends Chloe and Meg, they gossiped about another seventh-grader named Kate. Jessie didn’t know Kate, but Chloe and Meg said she was clingy, told boring stories and smelled like acne wash.
What we owe refugee children
A former Lebanese education minister explains the educational commitment due to refugee children and how the world cannot expect a small group of countries on the borders of war zones to bear sole responsibility for displaced people.