Dr. Willough Jenkins, a Canadian and American board-certified psychiatrist specializing in child psychiatry, is revealing the most common parenting mistake she sees — telling your kids to stop crying.

A study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that occasionally letting babies cry does not harm their behavioral development or their bond with their mothers. The research ...

I have two school-aged boys and I have a 38-month-old little girl. My question is about my daughter. With my sons, usually if they cried, and I gave them what they wanted, they’d stop crying and that ...

Surprisingly, little research has been done on the health effects of crying. In popular media, crying is promoted as healthful and cathartic. But is it? The results are mixed. In a literature review ...