And "it bugs the hell out of me." — -- (Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Babble.com. It has been reprinted here with permission. The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of ...

At four and a half, Sunshine is deep into the tattling phase. While I should be pleased (and am) that she is moving beyond her stop-and-wail-when-things-don’t-go-her-way phase, the tattling phase ...

Direct communication is needed for successful feedback, but tattling is different. It is more like reporting someone's wrongdoing. It can be malicious, meant to get someone in trouble, or to hurt ...

When my daughter was in pre-school, a classmate named Tommy angrily reported to their teacher “Hannah can jump higher than me. She’s not being a good friend.” Full of dread and certain she was going ...