Self-regulation is the ability to notice that your emotions are revving up and calm down before acting impulsively. The ability to stop oneself from acting on impulses takes quite a while to develop.

Although intelligence is generally thought to play a key role in children's early academic achievement, aspects of children's self-regulation abilities—including the ability to alternately shift and ...

A study by the universities of Zurich and Mainz has shown that teaching children how to manage their attention and impulses in primary school has a positive long-term effect on their later educational ...

Learning to regulate our bodies and our emotions is an important part of the human experience. This process starts the day we are born as we learn to get our physical needs met (i.e. hunger, body ...

Bringing up a child nowadays requires so much more than love, food, and education. In the fast-paced world full of ...

In a recent study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, researchers examined the potential association between depression among mothers and behavioral self-regulation among ...

When our children feel overwhelmed, they need us to be their safe place, and this is where co-regulation comes in. Co-regulation is the process of connecting with our child’s emotional state, helping ...

Amid growing controversy over marketing food to children and how to tackle the nation's obesity epidemic, marketers Tuesday announced a new initiative designed to strengthen self-regulation and to ...

Grandparents can have a ton of knowledge to dispense. However, naturally nurturing grandparents are less likely to drop all ...

Children’s health advocates are calling on fast-food restaurants to further restrict marketing of unhealthy food to children on television, across social media and in their establishments after ...