"Negative messages from parent to child had a great effect on their child's anxiety, even after just a few times," she says. Reason enough, as a parent, to be aware of your body language and words ...

To parents today, the path to their children’s success is foggy. That stresses parents out and leads them to fixate on what they think they can influence, like grades.

Parents, and the home environments they create, can also have an important influence on a child's development; in fact, a child's home environment can affect the ways that certain genetic traits ...