Childhood Development

If your efforts to keep your social butterfly focused at school are not working, try something else.

Consulting with professionals who know your child may help you determine if your child is ready for school.

These activities will help your child develop social skills.

A mother is unhappy that kids are constantly coming to her house to play with her son.

It's very normal for a young child to express preference for one parent or primary caretaker.

A teacher is concerned that one of her preschoolers is sexually harassing his classmate.

What's the best way to support a teenager who has lost his best friend?

A parent seeks reassurance that she explained Grandpa's death to her son in an appropriate way.

To an 11-year-old, this dramatic slight loudly declares her unpopularity.

Teach your child how to make new friends by modeling good social skills with your own friends.

A mother is concerned about her son's rather sheltered existence outside of school.

By expanding a child's social universe, parents can increase her chances of meeting new kids and making friendships.

It would not be fair to make your daughter feel that she is another child's "savior."

Six-year-olds do not experience the hormone-influenced attraction that may begin to occur in preadolescence.

Social development is as important as any other area of childhood development.

A young teen needs some skilled, compassionate therapy after losing his best friend to leukemia.

If your child doesn't succeed on the playing field, find other ways to boost his self-image.

Nine is far too young to be having a solitary, romantic boyfriend or girlfriend.