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12 Ways to Raise a Confident Child "Self-esteem is your child’s passport to a lifetime of mental health and social happiness. It’s the foundation of a child’s well-being and the key to success as an adult. At all ages, how you feel about yourself affects how you act.	Can Violent Extremism Be Cured Like A Contagious Disease? "If the team learns that someone is likely to commit violence (if, for example, someone's family member has been shot and they're likely to retaliate), trained "violence interrupters" step in to try to talk them down.
Attachment parenting group bonds over shared philosophy “And learning to trust myself instead of what the world is saying is the right way to parent,” she said. “And that can require having a community you trust to test things out with.	Exposure to media violence "Summarizing the results of >400 studies including violent media of all types, researchers found there was a significant association between exposure to media violence and aggressive behavior (effect size: 0.19; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0... read more
How parent-child communication from birth to age 3 sets the stage for lifelong success "What do babies need in order to learn and thrive? One thing is conversation—responsive, back-and-forth communication with their parents and caregivers.	Poor Parenting Can Be Passed From Generation to Generation: Study "They found that the more adverse childhood experiences a person had, the more likely their children were to be troubled, too.
Atlas of Emotions - Interactive "This Atlas was created to increase understanding of how emotions influence our lives, giving us choice, (at least some of the time) about which emotion we are experiencing, and how our emotions influence what we say and do.	Teen Girls Tend to Choose Male Friends High in Empathy "Boys with strong empathy skills attracted an average of 1.8 more girl friendships than boys with lower levels of empathy, according to a landmark study by the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University.
Why the warning 'wait til your father gets home' can backfire "The study was carried out by researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah, and concluded that as shouting by fathers was louder and more forceful, it would be associated more with anger.	New issue of Breastfeeding Today from La Leche League International, Issue 35, June 2016: Nurturing New issue of Breastfeeding Today from La Leche League International, Issue 35, June 2016: Nurturing

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