Zumblies

Worry in children is a shape-shifter. Sometimes it's loud (the bedtime "what if" spiral); sometimes it wear...

Anger is the feeling parents most want books to fix — and the feeling children's publishing most often gets...

Emotional vocabulary builds like any vocabulary: in rungs. A two-year-old works with happy/sad/mad; a seven...

Every classroom has the volcano kids — feelings at full volume, impossible to miss. This post is about the ...

Ask parents what "school ready" means and you'll hear letters, numbers, maybe scissors. Ask kindergarten te...

Your child will face roughly four kinds of playground conflict this year, and they're as predictable as the...

The SEL boom has a downside: the label is now on everything. Publishers know parents search for social emot...

The world is loud about quiet children. Teachers note "needs to participate more," relatives ask why she's ...

"Social emotional" has become a sticker publishers slap on anything with a feeling in it, which makes shopp...