Parenting

  • Blending Families & Finances

    Blending Families & Finances

    Discover effective strategies for managing finances in remarriage, balancing new and old family obligations for a smoother financial integration and a harmonious new family.

  • Building Parental Resilience

    Building Parental Resilience

    Learn to build resilience, manage parenting stress, and foster a nurturing environment for better family well-being.

  • Child Development Basics

    Child Development Basics

    Explore the evolving role of parenting, learn research-based strategies, and gain practical tools to foster positive parent-child relationships across all developmental stages.

  • Decoding and Soothing Your Baby's Cries

    Decoding and Soothing Your Baby's Cries

    Learn why infants cry and discover effective soothing techniques. This lesson also addresses managing parental frustration and responses to help calm fussy babies.

  • Disagree Better: In the Home

    Disagree Better: In the Home

    Discover tips and tools for respectful and compassionate disagreements in the Disagree Better series, helping parents and children foster civility at home and beyond.

  • Disagree Better: It Starts With Me

    Disagree Better: It Starts With Me

    Learn to disagree better with tips and tools to foster respect, compassion, and civility in parent-child interactions, both at home and beyond. Take notes for best results.

  • Disagree Better: Outside the Home

    Disagree Better: Outside the Home

    Learn four key principles for resolving disagreements with coworkers, classmates, and friends using the P.A.U.S.E. method to manage "internal irritation" effectively.

  • Discussing Cyberbullying and Online Predators

    Discussing Cyberbullying and Online Predators

    Learn strategies to teach youth safe tech use, prevent cyberbullying, avoid predators, and identify grooming tactics. Download slang terms list and set home boundaries.

  • Discussing Pornography with your Teen

    Discussing Pornography with your Teen

    Get practical, research-based tips for parents on discussing pornography with children, including conversation starters and insights on its impact on romantic relationships.

  • Emotion Coaching for Parents: Building Resilient Children

    Emotion Coaching for Parents: Building Resilient Children

    Discover how parental modeling and emotion coaching significantly influence your child's social and emotional growth, fostering resilience and well-being through practical, research-based strategies.

  • Guiding Teens in Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

    Guiding Teens in Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

    Understand the adolescent brain and enhance your teen's decision-making and problem-solving skills with effective models, techniques, and strategies for delayed gratification.

  • Helping Children & Teens Manage Stress

    Helping Children & Teens Manage Stress

    Discover how to spot stress symptoms in children and explore simple mindfulness exercises, including breathing techniques, to enhance their mental well-being.

  • Helping Children Manage Time (ages 7-12)

    Helping Children Manage Time (ages 7-12)

    It’s important for parents to teach kids how to manage their time on their own while providing support from the sidelines rather than taking control. This lesson will show you how to shift from overseeing your child’s schedule to becoming a helpful guide when needed.

  • Strategies for Effective Discipline

    Strategies for Effective Discipline

    Discover effective child discipline for ages 7-12. Learn to create supportive environments, address challenges, and foster cooperation and self-discipline. Start your journey today.

  • How to Inspire Your Children to Learn

    How to Inspire Your Children to Learn

    This lesson provides research-based advice to parents for helping children grow their natural love of learning to be lifelong learners.

  • Helping Children Learn to Share

    Helping Children Learn to Share

    This lesson explores ways parents can help their children share.

  • Money Management for Teens

    Money Management for Teens

    Parents are the most influential on teens' financial literacy, impacting their lifelong financial, relational, physical, and mental health more than schools, peers, or media.

  • Money Management for Tweens

    Money Management for Tweens

    Parents are the key influence on children's financial literacy, impacting their future health. Learn principles to confidently teach kids essential money skills for lifelong success.

  • Nurture and Compassion: The Heart of Parenting

    Nurture and Compassion: The Heart of Parenting

    Discover effective ways to show love and compassion to your children, ensuring they feel valued and nurtured every day.

  • Navigating Postpartum Realities

    Navigating Postpartum Realities

    Discover postpartum myths, challenges, wellness tips, and valuable resources to support your journey in this lesson. Navigate postpartum with confidence and care.

  • Navigating Mental Health Conversations with Your Child

    Navigating Mental Health Conversations with Your Child

    Learn practical skills to discuss mental health with children, recognize warning signs, understand causes, and challenge stigmas. Support your child's well-being effectively.

  • Potty Training Made Easy

    Potty Training Made Easy

    In this lesson, we will identify mental and physical signs indicating your child’s readiness for potty training. We will help you establish an effective training environment by creating positive associations with bathroom habits. We will discuss effective strategies for maintaining patience, managing emotions, and providing consistent support and praise. This lesson will address how to manage common potty-training issues while promoting your child’s independence and self-esteem.

  • Pregnancy Myths & Wellness Tips

    Pregnancy Myths & Wellness Tips

    Discover myths about pregnancy, overcome challenges, and boost your wellness with expert tips and reliable support resources in this lesson.

  • Problem-Solving Alongside Your Child

    Problem-Solving Alongside Your Child

    Learn a step-by-step process to help your child effectively problem-solve, support their daily challenges, and guide them in evaluating outcomes.

  • Resolving Conflict with Your Teen

    Resolving Conflict with Your Teen

    Learn effective conflict-management skills for parents: stay emotionally regulated, communicate opinions, solve problems with teens, and apologize when necessary.

  • Responding to Children Who Want to Help

    Responding to Children Who Want to Help

    Children love to help. As parents, we like to get things done with the least fuss and mess. The way to bridge those two realities is to find wise and sensible ways of involving children in helping us. Getting children involved helps them grow, learn, and feel valued.

  • Selecting and Reading Books to Babies

    Selecting and Reading Books to Babies

    In this lesson, we delve into why it is important to read to infants. It helps your relationship and their development. We’ll look at reasons to read to babies, how to choose appropriate books, and ways to engage your baby with books.

  • Self-care and Stress Management

    Self-care and Stress Management

    Effective parenting requires balancing self-care and stress management. Thriving parents can better support their children's challenges and ensure their well-being.

  • Setting Reasonable Limits and Rules for Children

    Setting Reasonable Limits and Rules for Children

    Learn to guide your children with effective limits and rules by entering your child’s world and using methods that honor their dignity and help them take responsibility. This lesson is for parents who want to teach their children to act responsibly.

  • Supporting Children Through Loss, Grief, and Change

    Supporting Children Through Loss, Grief, and Change

    Discover effective strategies for helping young children (ages 2-6) cope with major loss or change, fostering resilience and healthy coping mechanisms for grieving kids.

  • Talking to Your Adult Child About Finances

    Talking to Your Adult Child About Finances

    Navigate financial parenting of adult children: Learn key principles for balancing independence and financial support, ensuring healthy parent-child relationships and financial well-being.

  • Teaching & Guiding Children

    Teaching & Guiding Children

    Learn how to guide your children effectively by focusing on teaching better behavior, building loving relationships, setting expectations, and fostering responsibility.

  • Teaching Your Kids About Emotions and Empathy

    When kids learn to understand other people’s feelings, they make stronger friendships, handle conflicts better, and become kinder and more respectful. This lesson gives parents easy, practical ways to help their children develop empathy in daily life.

  • Technoference in Parent-Child Relationships

    Technoference in Parent-Child Relationships

    This lesson focuses on identifying and reducing technoference in the parent-child relationship. It also will encourage parents to create some guidelines around technology use in their homes.

  • Understanding and Preventing Parental Burnout

    Understanding and Preventing Parental Burnout

    Discover why parenting is challenging, identify signs of burnout, and learn strategies to replenish and prevent parental exhaustion with accessible resources.

  • Understanding Your Child's World

    Understanding Your Child's World

    Learn to understand and respond to your child's behavior with principles of support, compassion, and understanding. Gain essential parenting skills for better communication.