Ever wonder why your children are so different even though you raise them all the same way? The birth order effect changes the way your child experiences the world and therefore the personality they develop. Many parents are surprised that their children can be so different when they believe that…

In the middle childhood years kids begin to form their self-image, and therefore their self-esteem. Your child's developing identity is becoming more complex. Her description of herself should move from physical attributes (“I'm a girl”) to include her beliefs about her personality and emotions (“I like to help people.”) As…

Preschool children can become physically aggressive to other children, and an aggressive child will often graduate to verbal aggression and relational aggression. There are several forms of aggression children exhibit with their peers: Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, and Relational Aggression. Aggressive children usually start with physical aggression as that is…

Teens think they are fully mature, but their brains still have several years before they are fully developed. Some common teenage myths include: The Imaginary Audience First coined by the psychologist David Elkind, the imaginary audience is a mistaken belief in that the adolescent imagines that he is so important…

You should talk about sex to your child probably sooner than you think. Unfortunately your kids will be exposed to some form of sexuality in advertisements, movies, TV shows, and the Internet. You probably want to wait to have the puberty discussion until your child’s body begins to change, but…

Infants have a very limited range of emotions. 2 year-olds get upset because they experience several new emotions for the first time, and they don’t know how to deal with them. According to Dr. Maureen O’Brien, author of Watch Me Grow I’m Two, “the central dilemma for both child and…