I am an old-school fourth-grade teacher who has been teaching for 25 years. I’ve always used a behavior chart where students have to pull green, yellow and then a red card when they act up. I try to ...

A new Aspire Living & Learning clinic in Marlborough expands access to timely behavioral health evaluations and ...

Feeling alone, judged, and rejected underlies the pervasive anxiety and sadness many kids feel today. The ugliness of social media can become an endless feed of judgment and criticism for many kids.

Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But primary school teachers could do well to read about the latest brain imaging ...

Save the Children’s early learning specialists outline five key reasons why reading to babies and toddlers every day matters so much, especially in the first years of life.

The DSM-5 changed the diagnostic category for ADHD from "behavioral disorder" to "Neurodevelopmental Disorder." A 2017 research study from the National Center for Learning Disabilities found that 1 in ...

We’ve all heard a child described as “difficult” or “distracted.” But what if there’s more going on beneath the surface? So often, what looks like misbehavior is actually a sign of something ...

During the months that Rosalind Crawford’s sons were out of school, on virtual learning for disciplinary reasons, she tried her best to keep them on track academically, but says they still fell behind ...

Schools are struggling with emotional and behavioral issues among young children affected by the pandemic and opioid epidemic. A new policy in West Virginia gives teachers a process for removing ...