Explain to your child that everyone has a right to be safe in society and treated with dignity and respect. Hate speech is ...

Children’s social and emotional skills begin to develop from a very young age. Building a good understanding of emotions when you’re young helps you relate to others and manage your own mental health ...

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...

Gretchen Geng works for Flinders University. Big Talks for Little People receives funding from Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation, Little Heroes Foundation, Medibank, BeyondBank, and the ...

As parents across the country continue to send their children to sleepover camps this summer, I have heard of a number of camps that sent letters to parents urging them not to talk to their kids about ...

Children may not understand the stock market or inflation, but they can pick up on their parents’ financial worries. Experts offer advice on dealing with the subject. By Ann Carrns Stock market ...

Puberty can be hard on the kid going through it and the parent trying to help them. Your child is going through physical ...

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Elizabeth Westrupp receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. She is affiliated with the Parenting and Family Research Alliance, Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health & ...

When my son was three years old, he told me one day after preschool that he didn’t want to play with me because I was Black. Black people are mean, he said, and he wanted to play only with his dad, ...

It won't happen here. Not at your school. These are the kinds of reassurances that parents want to give their children when something as horrific as a school shooting happens. But here's the problem ...