At a recent national conference for K-12 school leaders here, multiple workshops on “conflict management” ran at almost full capacity. The principals in attendance were seeking tips and strategies to ...

Parents are the third rail of the discipline conversation. Teachers say they need backup from their school leaders.

Parent/child conflict increases during adolescence as the healthy teenager pushes for more independence to grow and healthy parents restrain that push in the interests of safety and responsibility.

Ah, parent-teacher conferences. Those semi-awkward, sometimes nerve-wracking evenings when parents and teachers gather to discuss the academic and social progress of our little darlings. It's a time ...

Between parent and adolescent, there is usually more verbal conflict than was true during the childhood years as the developmental forces of separation, opposition, and differentiation cause a healthy ...