Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kids with an anxious attachment can be clingy, sensitive, and have low-esteem. Anxious attachment requires healing—parents should ...

Have you noticed a worried look on your child’s face more often lately? Maybe they're refusing to go to school, having “meltdowns” at the bus stop, or developing mysterious stomachaches that land them ...

Academic anxiety is common at this time of year, but it can be hard to spot in children and teens. Jody Baumstein, a licensed ...

Anxiety is your body reacting to what it perceives as a threat and it causes a reaction in the most ancient part of the brain, the amygdala. Along with many other physiological reactions, we release ...

Anxiety is a reality for millions of kids. Over 9% of children aged 3 to 17 have been diagnosed with anxiety. That's nearly 6 million children in the US. For young children, anxiety might show up as ...

As a child and teen psychologist for over 30 years, I can tell you: anxious kids are often misunderstood. Their anxiety doesn’t always show up as trembling lips or teary eyes. More often, it wears a ...

Anxiety disorders are on the rise in kids, and while the social effects of COVID-19, shutdowns, and other related changes accelerated the rise, rates were already growing rapidly. The prevalence can ...

The list feels endless, when it comes to the 24-hour news cycle and increased social media visibility of school shootings, airline crashes, the political landscape, climate change and general human ...

When I was first studying psychology, thirty years ago, I learned that about 10-20% of children are born with a temperament that is highly reactive to anything new and unfamiliar. Some of these ...

I’ve always thought of myself as a “moderation parent.” One who takes a somewhere-in-the-middle approach to junk food, bedtime, and screentime. It seemed to work well for my two boys, ages 4 and 6, ...