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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5 min · In this short clip, Sheikh Belal Assaad describes five patterns that can make family life unhealthy: substance abuse, constant conflict, violence,…
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14 min · Ever snapped at your kids in a way far too big for the moment? Dr.
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9 min · Disagreements are part of life, between siblings, friends, neighbors, and even between parents and children. In the final episode of Raising…
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11 min · Many parents feel embarrassed when their child won’t say salam. In Episode 4 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar and…
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12 min · When a child forgets, refuses, or pushes back, it’s easy to react with a lecture, a guilt trip, or a rebuke,…
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Dr. Daniel Amen, child psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, lays out what actually builds a mentally strong kid: not more rules or more…
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18 min · A reminder that no one, adult or child, was placed on this earth by accident. Sheikh Belal Assaad explains why an…
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15 min · Every habit — good or bad — physically rewires the brain, and understanding how that happens can change how you handle…
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24 min · Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble traces a Quranic framework for anxiety, depression, and grief, starting with a simple but easy-to-miss point: much…
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20 min · Many people quietly believe that feeling afraid means their faith is weak. Shaykh Dr.
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43 min · Why does it seem like everyone has ADHD today? Psychiatrist Dr.
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6 min · Some phrases slip out in frustration and are forgotten by the parent within the hour — but not by the child.…
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5 min · When a child is in full meltdown, our instinct is to talk them down — to explain, soothe, or reason with…
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10 min · Emma Hubbard breaks down shitsuke, a Japanese concept of discipline built on instruction and practice rather than punishment. In her explanation,…
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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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21 min · Communication professor Bruce Lambert presents five principles drawn from Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s parenting book How to Talk So Kids…
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12 min · This video draws on cross-cultural research comparing Dutch and American infant sleep patterns, reporting that Dutch babies sleep meaningfully more per…
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9 min · Emma Hubbard argues that a child’s overwhelmed brain largely can’t process talking, explaining, or reasoning during a tantrum. She also argues…
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20 min · This video offers ten phrases intended to help young children develop language for understanding and communicating emotions. Its central idea is…
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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 · This video presents “regulation before resolution” as the missing piece when gentle-parenting scripts aren’t helping during a toddler meltdown. It recommends…
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10 min · This video argues that real confidence is built through thousands of small daily moments rather than big speeches or expensive opportunities.…
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13 min · This video identifies eight phrases it argues can undermine connection when they become repeated patterns — from sibling comparisons and negative…
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11 min · This video presents ten everyday habits intended to help children become more resilient, confident and emotionally aware. They include staying calm…
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21 min · Drawing on decades as a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst, Erica Komisar argues that today’s youth mental health crisis is real…
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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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7 min · A video looks at how a child’s everyday questions, however small they seem, can function as an act of trust, and…
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11 min · A step-by-step approach to responding to a child’s meltdown with calm presence rather than immediately trying to stop or correct it.…
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