Shortly after acquiring her disability, Ms McCracken had to help explain her new life to her own young kids. She said equally important as acknowledging a child's curiosity was not looking away.

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Sometimes, they struggle to understand why some return while others don’t, and the complexity of trying to explain this to them is even greater than with neurotypical children. The reason is ...

Follow the latest updates on the Canada-U.S. tariff war here Dr. Todd Cunningham, chair of the school and clinical child psychology program at the University of Toronto, says children absorb the ...

Feb. 4, is World Cancer Day. It’s to honor all those people fighting cancer and to remember those we’ve lost. A cancer ...

My teenage daughter has become addicted to “smellmaxing.” a fashionable trend of drenching oneself in vast quantities of ...

A mum who called emergency services after killing three of her four children terrifyingly told the call handler "it was too ...

One of the sad facts of life is that mental health disorders such as depression are afflicting people at an ever-younger age. Children, even preschoolers, are not immune to depression. Evidence ...

kids start to develop critical thinking skills around age three, right around when they begin asking “why” questions. “I think parents get frustrated with always having to explain ...

This is a story about four people whose brains turned against them, plunging their lives into the darkness of severe depression ... You’ve got great kids. Your wife’s awesome.

Though we often think of childhood as a happy, carefree time, for many children, anxiety and depression are all too real. While a child can develop anxiety or depression at any age, they’re more ...