It starts with teaching kids how to handle frustration, says Dr. Becky.

Kids have never exactly been famed for their attention spans, but the situation is only getting worse. Experts believe that childhood attention has been all but non-existent since the pandemic years.

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 ...

Last week at my neighborhood park, I watched a seven-year-old boy seemingly "not paying attention" during his outdoor science lesson. While his teacher was explaining plant life cycles, he was looking ...