“Children start to show more awareness and interest in peers around first grade,” says Dr. Kristin Edwards, a licensed psychologist and founder of Tampa Pediatric Psychology. “Crushes at this age are ...

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 ...