“Shy kids don’t want to draw attention to themselves, so they need to realize that they are the ones who are doing the atypical behavior by not saying ‘Hi,’” says Kennedy-Moore. Additional practice ...

The cookie challenge is one of the latest trends to go viral on TikTok. In the challenge, parents test how willing their child is to share a cookie. Typically, two adults and one young child each have ...

Building positive connections with teachers and peers in the classroom can be critical to the mental health and academic success of children and adolescents. Yet, a new national poll from The Kids ...

Though my work within the area of friendship has focused mostly on adults, the importance of friendship among children cannot be emphasized enough. I recently talked with psychologist Eileen ...