By Erika Boknek — 2020
Regardless of a child’s schooling situation, parents can help provide these four key components for a child’s mental health toolkit.
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Despite the ongoing need to test limits, kids also need to learn the importance of respect for others — and respect begins at home.
We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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A grassroots civil-dialogue movement creates a new kind of safe space: one that invites students from across the political spectrum to discuss controversial issues, including policing, gender identity, and free speech itself.
Tips for creating safe spaces and developing emotional intelligence in your children.
Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.
Sharing your feelings with your children does not mean dumping your anger on them or blaming them for your troubles.
How mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depressive disorder can affect family and friends.
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To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”