Being a parent can be the greatest thing ever — and one of the hardest. One of the harder tasks of parenting, at least for me, is figuring out the line between exerting parental control and letting ...

Autonomy versus shame and doubt is the second stage of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. This stage occurs between the age of 18 months and around age 2 or 3 years. According to ...

Parental rights have emerged as a central battleground in the culture wars, debated in school board meetings, courtrooms and legislative chambers across the country. As conflicts intensify over what ...

Helicoptering, gentle parenting, curling dads, French parenting . . . The internet is full of magical "new" ways of raising happier, better-behaved kids. Why is the world full of confused, anxious ...

In the 1950s and '60s fifth and sixth graders were crossing guards for younger children walking to school. Source: Herald File Photo, free for reuse. I have previously written much about the decline, ...