I was recently rereading some of what Irwin Sandler and his colleagues at the Prevention Research Center at Arizona State University have written about helping grieving children. They suggested that ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Working with foster children over the past 15 years has presented its share of joys and challenges. One of my early struggles, was changing my perspective and definition of a child’ success. To me, ...

Labels, even funny ones, can become character pronouncements for kids. As parents, most times we use them in a teasing way about a behavior and have no intention of them becoming long-term ...