Most childhood obesity programmes focus on food and physical activity. A new study suggests that parent stress should also be part of the picture. Researchers at Yale tested whether helping parents ...

Terrence Howard connects his complicated relationship with intimacy directly to growing up unsupervised in Cleveland.

I remember a time when someone offered to help me without being asked. A coworker saw me carrying four boxes up a stairwell and said, "Let me grab two of those." My first instinct wasn't gratitude. It ...

I was in college and it was finals week. Half the people on my dorm floor were hunched over laptops days in advance, color-coded notes spread across their desks like tiny control panels. The other ...

A study of 2.1 million births found no link between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and ADHD or autism when researchers compared sibling outcomes.

A moment when I stopped crying in front of people. Not because the feelings disappeared—but because I started noticing that when I did express my true feelings, the response wasn't satisfying. No one ...

Children and teenagers who spend more time on digital media are more likely to experience mental health, behavioral and academic difficulties later on, according to a major international review ...

SZA opened up about whether the “magic and the love” will end with her or if not having children is the “end of a karmic cycle.” SZA has become one of the latest Black celebrities to question whether ...

More parents are using GPS trackers and smartwatches to keep tabs on their children, but experts warn that these devices can ...

When a five-year-old suddenly starts hitting and biting classmates, it can feel like a flashing neon sign that something has gone very wrong. The behavior is upsetting, the phone call from school is ...

It's rare for parents to focus more on listening to their children than on lecturing them, but when they do, they raise humans with some wonderful traits.

Unhealthy patterns often form over generations. Breaking the cycle takes courage. A woman who has seen her family behave a ...