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 ...

Whether your kid is 3 or 19, research shows this behavior actually makes their anxiety worse.

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 ...

If your child often complains of a stomachache before school, a big game or a test, it may not just be “nerves.” Experts say ...

In my new video, Lenore Skenazy, founder of the nonprofit Let Grow, says it's because today's parents rarely allow their kids to experience the joys of independence. Skenazy once let her 9-year-old ...

Traveling with kids can be stressful as it is, but traveling with kids who experience flight anxiety can add another layer.

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

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 ...

Parents who feel they have not invested or managed their money well in the past can be “honest about lessons learned — ...