After gunfire near the Kansas City Zoo and fights at the Country Club Plaza have led police and some residents to blame directionless teenagers for the problems, a new program is trying to find ...

Kids have their own preferences and are developing a sense of autonomy and control. They also figure out which responses lead to the most favorable outcomes. As a parent, there are ways to honor their ...

“Demand avoidance”—a knee-jerk, defiant reaction to any direction to cooperate with a task or to make a transition—is a phenomenon that I see frequently in my work with families of highly sensitive ...