When school begins, so might playground weddings. Here, we break down age-by-age tips for handling your child's first crush.

It usually starts in passing. Maybe your first-grader blushes while mentioning a classmate’s name, or your 10-year-old suddenly cares what they wear to school. You smile, half-amused, half-bewildered.

Often, even if we know the object of our desire, the crush makes us idealize them, and it’s often the idealized version of that person we can’t get out of our head, rather than the living, breathing, ...

I recently asked my third grade son about crushes in his class. After two years of having limited interaction with human beings, I had to turn to him — the only person in our house who regularly ...