Friendship
4 articles
Play
Building Social Skills Through Play
The honest truth about teaching social skills under 5: you mostly can't. You can model them, you can coach briefly, you can engineer the situations, b...
Parenting
When Children Exclude Others: What It Means
A 4-year-old yelling "you can't play with us!" lands like the start of a lifelong personality. Usually it isn't. The capacity to take another child's...
Family Life
Sibling Relationships in Early Childhood
The most thorough body of work on early sibling relationships comes from Judy Dunn at Cambridge and a generation of researchers (Howe, Volling, Brody,...
Emotions
Peer Pressure: How to Help Children Navigate It
Conversations about peer pressure tend to focus on resistance: teaching children to say no, to walk away, to choose better friends. This isn't wrong,...