Support for anxiety, confidence, resilience, big feelings, and the struggles children don’t always say out loud.
Thoughtful guidance, expert perspectives, and practical reflections to help you better understand what your child may be experiencing.
22 min · Gentleness beautifies everything it touches. Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi explains why knowing your own temperament is the first step toward the Prophet’s…
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7 min · Using four imagined children, this explainer walks through psychologist Diana Baumrind’s four classic parenting styles, authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, and neglectful, and…
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15 min · Dr. Daniel Amen tells the story of Chris, a boy diagnosed with ADHD at six, hospitalized after an aggressive outburst at…
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24 min · Helen Hoffman argues that parents don’t need to prioritize alphabet drills before age three. Instead, she encourages families to focus on…
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12 min · Dr. Shefali Tsabary, a clinical psychologist, invites parents to consider how parenthood can bring their own emotional history to the surface.
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17 min · A psychology professor challenges the assumption that parents control who their children become. She illustrates this with a metaphor: a butterfly’s…
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15 min · A developmental psychologist reframes what looks like a child avoiding a challenge, backing away from a big water slide, refusing to…
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