Dear Kid Whisperer: I teach third grade, and I use a behavior chart. All of the kids start out with a red, a yellow, and a green card by their names.

It's tempting to focus on correcting your child's unwanted behaviors, but positive reinforcement – rewarding appropriate behaviors – may be more effective.

Guidelines released for children from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine show adequate sleep is linked with improved attention, behavior, learning, mental and physical health at every age covered.

The most common concerns about child behavior included sleeping habits (48%), aggression (46%), and separation anxiety (44%). Similarly, 61% of parents say their child’s school helps them ...

When children struggle—whether through tantrums, withdrawal, aggression, or inattention—adults often rush to interpret the behavior. We diagnose, label, or frame it as a moral failure. We call ...

Mike Wallach pictured, sharing his tip for encouraging kids to clean up their toys without instruction. Wallach, who has four children aged between 3 and 10 years old, said that this tip has the ...