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Harnessing the incredible learning potential of the adolescent brain It has become a cultural cliché that raising adolescents is the most difficult part of parenting.	More focused, better behaved kids -- through mindfulness Would the world be a better place if more of us were trained to take a mindful moment to connect emotions we are feeling to our brains before we act?
Don’t want to raise a psychopath? Be sensitive to a child’s distress How do you stop a child, especially one who has experienced significant adversity, from growing up to be a psychopath?	ACEs Too High with Jane Stevens Journalists have a unique position to be able to see an issue from all sides.
Want your child to learn self-control? First, teach self-validation A child's ability to form healthy self-validation is a vital goal of child development.	Study: Time With Children Matters Most "API Advisory Board member "[Peggy] O'Mara says while social programs often focus on improving household income and increasing the amount of child care available to parents as they work, supporting parents as they try to spend more quality time... read more
Stanford researchers show we’re sending many children to school way too early "Developmental psychology research emphasizes the importance of imaginative play in aiding children’s emotional and intellectual self-regulation.	Talking to our children about world tragedies In the last decade, researchers in the fields of neuroscience and epigenetics have made exciting advances toward decoding how our way of thinking can actually change our bodies.
Darcia Narvaez Takes on “Grit” Training for Babies API Board Member, Darcia Narvaez, issues a challenge with respect to society's fascination with "grit" as we dig into our AP Month 2015 discussion on "Parental Presence: Birthing Families, Strengthening Society."	Babies Just Want to Be Smiled at "Researchers have found that when babies smile, it's for a reason. They want whoever they’re interacting with—typically a parent—to smile back. And they time it just so, a smile here and a smile there.

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