Lora Hoffstetter 

Beyond Discipline for Teens The teen years are notoriously challenging for parents. Much like the toddler years, kids sometimes seem intent

So you want to raise an emotionally intelligent child and and you're wondering where to begin? Start with these five steps.

What you put in your stomach now affects your brain later – including your ability to think, remember and process information.

Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, neither good nor bad. Like any emotion, it conveys a message, telling you that a situation is upsetting,

There’s a reason your kid is an angel at school or daycare but a hot mess at home. It's called after-school restraint collapse. Here's how t

Self-care is vital for building resilience toward those stressors in life that you can't eliminate. When you've taken steps to care for your

Gratitude is one of the trickiest concepts to teach toddlers and preschoolers -- who are by nature self-centered -- but one of the most....

There's a lot of misinformation circulating about autism. We asked the experts what parents really need to know to decipher fact from ....

There's no easy fix to our addiction to phones, tech experts warn. It still remains up to parents to monitor screen time.

We've all spent countless hours lost in emails or Instagram, but experts are worried that when we're connecting online, we're connecting...

Convincing your children to do things they don't want to do can be challenging. And making them stop doing the things you don't want them to

Signs of stress and anxiety in children often show up as physical or behavioral changes.

Many kids (and parents) are feeling mounting anxiety over the approach of a new school year. From hectic mornings to last-minute projects..

Parenting preteens, or tweens, can be a challenge. Discipline, school, homework, time with family -- everything is renegotiated.

Many adults are crippled with indecision when faced with difficult choices. Others, worse yet, make self-destructive choices and repeatedly

Your sleep deprivation could have some very serious side effects. Both chronic and partial sleep deprivation affects not only your mood....

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in the United States, affecting more than 16 million men and women

Here’s how you all can enjoy those 62 gloriously golden days of summer (even if you don’t have any vacation days or friends with cottages).

It is not uncommon for parents to monitor their teens' digital worlds. In fact, parents routinely keep tabs on their kids....

For many parents, the sibling rivalry of childhood is manageable. But when puberty arrives, that can change.