Kids in the 1970s learned several life skills that modern parenting has pretty much wiped out of children today.

When I teach self-compassion to kids in schools, I do an exercise in which kids imagine that a friend of theirs has lost or broken something special. How would they respond to their friend? I then ask ...

In a world where kids are learning how to behave around other people, sometimes the simplest message has the biggest impact. One such quote that has stood the test of time from the Dalai Lama is: “Be ...

In a now-famous experiment published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Baba Shiv and Alexander Fedorikhin asked students to choose between chocolate cake or a healthy fruit salad. Prior to that, ...

Self-control refers to the process of resisting temptations (e.g., eating junk food) that conflict with enduring goals that usually involve bigger but delayed rewards (maintaining a healthy weight and ...