Emotional & Mental Well-Being

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    Helping Kids Stop Gaming Without a Meltdown

    The game ends, and suddenly your child is furious. They’re yelling, arguing, crying or pleading for one more match. For some children, stopping a highly engaging game can be genuinely difficult. That doesn’t mean you have to give in, and it doesn’t mean every strong reaction signals a serious problem. The goal is to help your child learn an important skill: something I really enjoy can end, and I can handle the transition.

    Emotional Regulation · Gaming

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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Teen · 5 min

Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Teen · 9 min

How to Teach Your Kids to Handle Conflict Prophetically

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Middle Childhood · 12 min

When Your Child Misbehaves, Don’t Do This

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Teen

What Every Parent Should Fix While They Still Can

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Teen · 24 min

How to Deal With Anxiety & Depression in Islam

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood / Teen · 21 min

The Keys to Raising Resilient Children

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Middle Childhood · 15 min

What Kids Know About Motivation (and We Don’t)

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Preteen · 7 min

How Adults Teach Children Courage

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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Emotional & Mental Well-BeingEarly Childhood – Middle Childhood · 11 min

The Korean Method to Calm Tantrums in 60 Seconds

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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