For kids with test anxiety, even a minor challenge can induce such high levels of stress that they virtually shut down, losing their ability to think or even recall what they know.

Parenting is not about perfection. Rather, it's about giving your children your best you, and taking the lead of this dance in a way that will teach them how to lead their own dance one day, openly, honestly and responsibly.

QUESTION Dear Dr. Levine, My daughter is in high school has had problems keeping friends since elementary school. From what I have observed when her...

Dear God, Something happened today that I do not think has ever happened in the history of man kind, it was the kind of something that you know you c...

Evidence-based research tells us that the U.S. could save $13 billion on health care costs each year if 90 percent of women breastfed exclusively for six months.

Becoming an older mother is never easy---physically or emotionally---especially if there's no logical father-to-be on the horizon. Three Wishes: A Tru...

When my mother died one year ago after a long illness, I was grateful to be home--at my childhood home in Dallas, I should say; not my grown-up home i...

Do you remember what you were told being a new parent would be like? Your childless friends and family said having a baby would be endlessly blissful...

Sure -- it's a scramble to do meaningful work, make a lot of money and be at the soccer game on time. But it can be done -- you just have to be flexible about how you look at flexibility.

While many family caregivers find enormous satisfaction in their duties, most find it extremely challenging emotionally. One of the issues faced by family caregivers is feeling isolated from their former lives.

Three events this week brought to mind the challenging role of being a mother today. The birth of a new baby, a college admissions decision and a long awaited on-again-off-again wedding.

With 44 million people providing care to someone over the age of 50 in their home, the problems faced by these millions of family caregivers are reaching crisis proportions in our nation.

I never knew how to cross the divide again, My own sense of self -- a bridge to do so -- was fragile, a façade that surely could not hold the weight.

There is no pain greater than the loss of a child. Parents who have suffered such a tragedy say that they never get over it; at best, they get through...