“This is hard because sometimes parents do these things accidentally because they're tired or they're exhausted." ...

Kristal Leon should have been celebrating her daughter Priscilla Villareal's newfound love for basketball. Instead, she was forced to have a tough conversation with her then 7-year-old daughter, who ...

(ABC News) -- Victims of bullying appear to be much more likely to bring a weapon to school, according to a new study published today in the journal Pediatrics. Authors of the study used Centers for ...

More kids are reporting being bullied. According to a survey by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 40% of kids said they were bullied on school property in the last year. Of those, 38% didn’t tell an ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When I wrote When Kids Call the Shots, I thought I was writing about a small group of children and teens I was seeing in my psychotherapy practice. Since the book was published, I’ve received hundreds ...

I remember walking through the hallways in middle school with my head down and shoulders tight. I’d calculate every step: Which route to class had the fewest threats. Which bathroom was safe. Which ...

Neuroscience shows us definitively that acts of kindness change the brain and that school-based programs that specifically integrate the teaching of kindness and empathy skills into the academic day ...

New research suggests so-called nerds and non-conformists aren't the only ones being bullied in school these days. It happens to popular kids, too. Researchers tracked some 4,000 high school students ...

Maybe this time someone will face malicious harassment charges: Students at a local school are grieving a classmate. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn’t take any more ...

Nobody sets out to raise a bully. You read the books, you attend the school meetings, you have the “be kind” conversation in ...