As the old adage goes, there's no handbook for parenting. But ask anyone who has raised a child into adulthood, and they'll likely tell you they never needed one. That's because in healthy, developed ...

The new year is a time when we all try to turn over a new leaf by getting rid of bad habits and developing new ones in their place. But as we all know from personal experience, most New Year’s ...

Katie and Dustin Maletich, Oregon parents of four, have gone viral on social media for a parenting moment that’s sparked some debate. After Dustin’s 9-year-old stepson, Tommy, told his mother to ...

Self-control has long been regarded as one of the strongest predictors of success. Most of us can picture that colleague who never misses a deadline, volunteers for extra projects and keeps everything ...

Deeply caring people provide support, make kind gestures, and positively influence the lives of others. Controlling people can use these tactics as ways to seek authority over another person’s life ...

A long-held view is that compulsive behaviors involve individuals getting stuck in a "habit loop" that overrides self-control, but new research in rats from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) ...

Scientists are increasingly warning that the modern diet of grab-and-go snacks and heat-and-eat dinners is not just expanding waistlines, it is quietly eroding the brain’s ability to hit the brakes. A ...

I was reading the Pastoral Epistles this week (1 & 2 Timothy and Titus), and one of the qualifications Paul mentioned for leadership is self-control. I decided to see what Google and AI had to say, ...

At the start of every new year, many of us think about how to make our lives better going forward. Perhaps we want to lose weight or stop drinking or stay off of our cell phones. If only we had more ...

People who achieve lasting success tend to share two quieter, often overlooked personality traits: conscieniousness and ...

New scientific data are beginning to demonstrate just how similar the mental processes are in dogs and people. This is the case, not only for emotional life and problem-solving but also for complex ...