She hears it all the time in her office and out in the world, and says parents should rethink the familiar response.

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.

The title of this blog post could be put another way: “Because I said, ‘Stop crying’ to my son when I was raising him, did I ruin his life?” I have been asked questions like this for more than thirty ...

It's natural to want to comfort a child when they're crying. When parents see their kid hurting physically or emotionally, they often want to do anything in their power to stop their heartache. As a ...