Experts tell Newsweek why parents should let kids make mistakes, learn from experience, and even face a few natural consequences.

Parents can gain a lot from the adaptability that children may demonstrate. Watching how children recover from small failures ...

A "transformation" is upon us. After a multi-year procession of educational technology products that once promised to shake ...

Positive declarations can enhance a child's academic and emotional development, resilience and overall well-being.

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Your guidance can help your kids learn to recognize and care about other people's feelings from a young age. Get started with six tips from experts.

Discover how Chicago Waldorf School integrates social and emotional learning (SEL) from preschool through high school through a nationally recognized PK–12 framework.

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

After-school programs are when structure, safety, and belonging matter most for children. That was the message the Children’s ...