Every baby is different, as any parent with more than one child can attest. What’s fairly ubiquitous, however, is that at some stage in an infant’s development, they’ll enter a phase in which they’re ...

Judith Orloff recently wrote that, "Tears are your body’s release valve for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety, and frustration." This sort of thinking has a long history in Western folk psychology about ...

Many parents are unprepared for how intense newborn crying can become in the first few months of life. The Period of PURPLE Crying describes a normal developmental phase when babies cry more ...

Crying is a natural response humans have to a range of emotions. Possible benefits of crying include self-soothing, relieving pain and stress, enhancing mood, and more. It is not unusual to cry, and ...

Emotional crying is a behavior largely unique to humans and could be considered a step forward in evolution, a consequence of a deeper connection to sadness and mourning. Yet it's often given a bad ...