When your child tells you they are feeling sad, it's important to offer them support and show that you care. Even before the pandemic, anxiety and depression were becoming more common among children ...

Depression in childhood is often overlooked as a mood bounce or behavioural problem. Parents may ignore early red flags, ...

Sometimes, a child is serious and quiet by nature. It can be a mistake to try to make that child more upbeat--It suggests that their essence, a not-malevolent essence, is unacceptable. Although it may ...

In the midst of writing this column, I learned a friend’s teen daughter had died. I am steeped in sadness. There is disbelief, a deep ache in my heart, and the knowledge the lives of her parents, ...