By making modest adjustments to promote attention at home and at school, we can strengthen our ability to concentrate.

Marina, a six-year-old girl, interrupts her mother repeatedly during our session, trying to get Mom to look at the family portrait she has drawn on the whiteboard. Her mother tells Marina to wait a ...

Confession: I once forgot my second son at the gym. He was 4, safe in the child care center (no children were harmed in the making of this family lore!), but somehow my husband and I each thought the ...

Marina, a six-year-old girl, interrupts her mother repeatedly during our session, trying to get Mom to look at the family portrait she has drawn on the whiteboard. Her mother tells Marina to wait a ...

It’s no secret that smartphones and other digital devices control and consume our attention, both among adults and young people. This can be illustrated with three different, but very common scenarios ...

Every parent wants to believe they're tuned into their child's needs. We read bedtime stories, pack healthy lunches, and attend school events. Yet beneath the surface of our daily routines, something ...

Jenkins, M.D., is a child psychiatrist at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSD. She lives in Encinitas. As a child psychiatrist, I have received countless ...

Continuous screen exposure disrupts children’s sleep, which affects physical growth and hunger-related hormones. Using ...