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Signs a Child Might Be Suicidal
Warning signs to look out for if you are worried that a child might be suicidal, and advice about how to help.
Raise a Child Who Loves Life
Can you actually teach your kid to laugh often, be an optimist, and enjoy every day? Research says yes.
5 things parents can do to boost a child's self-confidence
Raising confident kids is a balancing act. Two childhood development experts reveal how to navigate it.
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
How to Raise Creative Children
Three rules that might make your child a future Nobel Prize winner
What If My Child Is Suicidal?
We’ve begun many of these posts with stories. We’re not going to do that with this post. When a child takes his or her life, we don’t need to make the post personal. The loss of a child to suicide is necessarily tragic, and deeply disturbing. Fortunately, it is also potentially preventable. We’ll focus in …
How to Raise an Emotionally Resilient Child
Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from stressful or difficult moments. Learn how you can help your child develop this important skill by setting aside ten minutes each day.
Tough Talks: How to Talk to Your Child About Mental Health
Mental health is a crucial topic to talk about with kids. But where and when should you start?
Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate
Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen.
Teach Your Daughter How to Deal With Bullies
If your child is being bullied, she'll need some help learning how to stand up for herself and when to get help.
Prevent Child Abuse America
With Pinwheels for Prevention, the pinwheel has come to serve as the physical embodiment and reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.
5 Questions to Ask a Child Psychologist
Find the right psychologist for your child and your family.
Finding the Right Mentor for Your Child
When you reflect on your own life, you can probably pin point the key adults that helped to inspire and support you over the course of your childhood and adolescence. Whether it was someone you met through a formalized mentoring program or people you knew through your school, church or community, these folks helped to shape you into the person that you have become. It is important that all kids have positive adult role models, besides their parents, throughout their lives. Research has…
What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child?
New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.
3 Questions to Ask Your Child Every Night
Ask your child these 3 questions every night to help your child learn how to verbally express themselves and to help you learn about their day.
What It's Like Going to the Emergency Room for Suicidal Thoughts
Baby Steps: "Learn the Signs. Act Early."
Learn how to look for developmental milestones in your young child and what to do if you have a concern about your child's development. Comments on this vide...
How My Mom Saved My Life When I Was a Suicidal Teen
Learned Helplessness: Are You Doing Too Much for Your Child?
Under functioners are skilled in the art of learned helplessness. They have quite literally learned to be helpless, because someone was always there to pick up the pieces for them.
Is there a child mental health crisis?
It is now common for media reports to mention a ‘child mental health crisis’ with claims that anxiety and depression in children are rising to catastrophic levels. The evidence behind t…
