Author Melinda Wenner Moyer shares parenting strategies to help kids engage with the world in healthy and productive ways.

If you’re coping ... children in the eye. Give them your undivided attention. Teach them to do the same. These small gestures deepen connections and help them build strong communication skills ...

“About three years ago, I was working with a lot of women who were just feeling stressed, and I thought if only we could teach these coping skills when they were kids,” she said. “It’s so ...

Stress is unavoidable, whether due to daily life (a traffic jam, job worries, or sick kids ... "Coping mechanisms" and "defense mechanisms" are terms that are sometimes used interchangeably. However, ...

Kids with ADHD have the same feelings as people ... Emotions that don’t make sense to you are still real to your child. Make a list of coping skills. These are ways to help your child feel ...

If implemented appropriately and with adequately trained therapists, ABA therapy is a well-researched method for increasing functional skills ... children off from soothing or coping mechanisms.

Children ages ... emotional regulation skills. When they are upset, distressed or stressed about something, they go right to the phone instead of using other coping strategies that may be more ...

The authors describe the process they used to involve the community to determine what skills they focused on in their intervention and the intervention’s success. [00:00:07.140] – APS’s Özge Gürcanlı ...

I also encourage parents to ask their kids what video games they're playing, because depending on the video game, they might be learning skills that the parent might not even be aware of.