Experts increasingly believe that sleep issues should be ruled out before ADHD is diagnosed. Chervin’s data suggest that 15 to 25 percent of hyperactivity is actually due to sleep apnea.

In the moment your daughter asks, Am I fat? she isn’t looking for verification of her size. She needs your emotional guidance.

That cute Barbie commercial hints at other reasons girls love dolls that they’re utterly unaware of but moms can appreciate. Doll play is fantastic “brain work.”

Toddlers struggle with the same feelings as the rest of us: anger, sadness, jealousy, the whole cast of Inside Out. But they don’t yet have the language skills to describe them. They also lack the emotional maturity to know that everybody has a bad day sometimes and th...