Showing them how we grieve, panic, or give into our exhaustion can be a good thing. The trick is figuring out exactly how ...

Leaving kids with a babysitter or dropping them off at daycare can be hard, especially if the kids are little. “As a parent, your heart may ache if your child is crying out for you and wants you,” ...

Telling an upset child to “stop crying” might seem like a well-meaning attempt to soothe them and quickly restore a sense of peace to the situation. But a leading family psychotherapist has warned ...

When your child is upset about something you don't believe is worth their tears, it's easy to throw out seemingly innocuous phrases in the heat of the moment — "Stop crying! You're fine!" However, ...

I have two school-aged boys and I have a 38-month-old little girl. My question is about my daughter. With my sons, usually if they cried, and I gave them what they wanted, they’d stop crying and that ...

The title of this blog post could be put another way: “Because I said, ‘Stop crying’ to my son when I was raising him, did I ruin his life?” I have been asked questions like this for more than thirty ...

A mom says not allowing her children to “cry alone” is one of the best parenting decisions she has ever made. “Some totally get it,” Sarah Bullock, a mother of three, tells TODAY.com in an email ...