Good sportsmanship is a tough skill to learn -- for both children and adults. This video demonstrates empathy in action among preteens who just won perhaps the biggest soccer match of their lives.

Children share a special attachment with their pets, and the loss of a pet can be very sad for them. But grief is an important emotion to learn how to sensitively respond. What is the best way to guide children in grieving for their pet? Here are 4 tips.

Most of us are fortunate to have never known war up-close. Most of us have never spent time as a refugee. Most of us have never tried parenting for peace in a war zone. This video describes what's all involved. In short: War-zone parenting is Attachment Parenting.

People often fear that if boys are nurtured too much, it somehow warps their personalities and makes them too dependent and too sensitive. What does this mean when it comes to Attachment Parenting with our sons?

Shame is experienced as a passing emotion in almost everybody. It exists to tell us that we are at risk of losing important social relationships, or that we might be thrown out of our group. However, if we’ve been traumatized, then shame becomes indelibly interwoven with our implicit sense of who we are, whereupon our identity becomes "shame-based." There are several routes to becoming shame-based, one being when infants do not get their needs met by sensitive, responsive, and nurturing caregivers.

How do parents protect their children and help them feel secure again when their homes are ripped apart by war? In this TEDx Talk video, psychologist Aala El-Khani shares her work supporting -- and learning from -- refugee families affected by the civil war in Syria.

It’s never too late to start.  Begin today.  It doesn’t matter how old your kids are now or where they live.  We all need parents who are connected to their hearts and not afraid to validate our worth by hearing what we have to say. Now I’m making up for lost time. 

What is true sportsmanship? Watch this video on Facebook of how the champions consoled their visibly upset opponents in this youth soccer game.

The teen years are tumultuous for parents, but also for teens. They're craving independence and seeking their identity. They're dealing with big emotions and even bigger hormones. They're more likely to act out against their parents and orient with their peers, who may or may not be engaged in healthy behaviors. But if you look beneath all this, teens really just want to be heard -- and parents can do this.

Delaying Kindergarten until age 7 provides children mental health benefits by allowing them to develop better self-regulating skills before entering the school environment, according to a Dannish-American study published in The National Bureau of Economic Research's Working Papers. These mental health benefits continued until at least age 11.

The teenage years are notoriously mysterious for parents, but they don't have to be. Read this year-by-year guide as to how to best parent your tweens and teens.

Don't suppress the child's emotions...Allow the child to see you vulnerable...Display empathy toward others...These are among 10 tips for parents to raise more empathetic children.

The quality of parent-child attachment in the early years makes a huge difference to that child's well-being, according to pediatric psychologist Meghan Wells. The challenge is getting past the point of blaming parents.

It is possible to be healed from toxic shame and emotional trauma, but the process is never easy. For certain, covering up the trauma with symptom relievers won't heal the underlying trauma. The healing has to come from the inside-out, with patience and perservance, through the experience of at least one healthy relationship, guided by someone who has made the journey before you. It's an incredibly difficult journey that not many people have the courage to take, but if you do, you can find freedom from your emotional pain that you never imagined.

Parent support programs improve school readiness, social skills, and academic success among preschoolers while reduces problem behaviors.

Cesarean birth rates just may be affecting Western society's genetics, predisposing future generations to even higher C-section rates than today, according to an Austrian study published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.

The roots of racial disparity in breastfeeding rates among Blacks and Whites share those of overall racial health disparities, according to an American study published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal. The lack of paid parental leave was implicated as a major hindrance to establishing breastfeeding relationships.

La Leche League International has issued a statement in response to the American Academy of Pediatrics's Infant Sleep Policy updated in 2016.