When we want our kids to express themselves in ways other than tantrumming or throwing peas at the dog, we say “Use your words.” But I often wonder, do we adults really know how to use our words ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, “Use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

Doing my best not to disturb the man sleeping in the doorway of a book store in downtown Greensboro, I held my phone out to take a picture of a poster in the shop’s front window. It was labeled “Words ...

“Use your words” wisely when talking to children, which actually includes being cautious of this phrase itself. These seemingly innocent phrases we often use with children that may actually have an ...