Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we’re offering a special Happiness & ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs ...

A new paper looks at how stress affects children's development, and how parents can help protect kids from harm.

Most of us try to listen harder when a conversation gets difficult. Here’s a more useful shift: Listen more deliberately.

Too often, parents and teachers try to force kids to apologize and forgive. But research suggests there’s a better way that ...

New research suggests that chatbots still don’t measure up to humans when it comes to connection and well-being.

That line from 2014 movie Ex Machina keeps surfacing as I watch my students navigate a world increasingly shaped by ...

I recently moved to a new apartment, an occasion that calls for celebration—preferably outdoors in my brand-new backyard. But I didn’t expect how much being in a different space would disrupt my sense ...

They found a connection between regular acts of forgiveness and a rise in the sense of psychological, more than physical, ...

In this video from our Bridging Differences for Parents and Teens series, learn how particular mindsets can foster awareness of why appreciating differences is worthwhile. Take a few minutes to ...

Mindfulness is now the fastest-developing area in mental health. And it doesn’t matter which therapeutic approach we take, be it psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, or any other.

My regrettable “mean girl” moment happened when I was in seventh grade. I was living in a new town and struggling to fit in. As Halloween approached, I felt hopeful when a shy yet kind girl asked me ...