What Are You Teaching Your Kids to Fear?
Next time you spot a spider crawling on the wall, you may want to think twice about screaming. A new study in Current Directions in Psychological Science suggests that our fears are learned, not...
View ArticleTalking to Kids About Tragedies and Disasters
The 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan and caused a tsunami calls to mind other large-scale natural disasters from past years, such as the Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquake in 2004, Hurricane Katrina in...
View ArticleTips for Talking to Kids About Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are making the news again, the most recent being an endless string of tornadoes that struck mostly midwestern and southern states in the U.S., including Oklahoma, Alabama, Iowa,...
View ArticleHow Parents Can Discuss Difficult Topics
A few weeks ago, we shared a few tips from Project Recovery Iowa on how parents can talk to kids about natural disasters. We interviewed Project Recovery Iowa to provide you with more advice on the...
View ArticleYour Child’s Top 3 Classroom Fears: A Back-to-School Infographic
Is your child heading to school for the first time? Or heading back to new classrooms with new teachers? We polled our Facebook readers with the question, “What scares your child the most about going...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....