Parenting
Our contributors provide resources and advice for raising happy, healthy children, covering a range of topics, from early childhood to adolescence, offering practical tips and expert insights to help you navigate the journey of parenthood. Learn about different parenting styles, effective discipline strategies, and how to support your child's development at every stage.
What Children Really Need When They Are Dysregulated and Why Calm Down Doesn’t Work
Every parent, teacher, and caregiver has experienced it. A child melts down over something seemingly small. A sibling argument escalates quickly. A student shuts down during a lesson. In these moments...
The 5 Baby Brain Secrets That Can Address School Readiness, Communication, and Neurodiversity
Whilst a lot of good progress has been made to support children aged 0 to 3 years, the ages of 3 to 7 years constitute a key stage of brain development that plays a major role in their school readiness...
Tantrums as Data and What Your Child’s Outbursts Reveal About Their Needs
Every tantrum tells a story. Behind the tears, the stomping feet, or the sudden silence lies valuable information about a child’s wants, needs, and challenges. When parents learn to see tantrums not as chaos...
The Challenges of Parenting and How to Overcome Them
Parenting is a complex role and situation. It involves emotions, care, guidance, responsibility, awareness, listening, understanding, respect, anticipation, boundaries, and patience. You get the...
The Pressure to Be a Calm Parent and What to Do When You’re Not
There is a moment most parents know well. Your child is melting down over something small. You’ve already had a long day. You try to stay calm, but then your voice gets sharper. Your patience runs...
Morning Stress into Calm – 6 Quick Self-Care Rituals for Busy Parents
Every morning, I find myself constantly running back into the house to retrieve something I have forgotten after the kids are all buckled up and ready to go. Sometimes, I make this trip 2 to 4 times.
How Ancient Greek Philosophy Can Help Modern Parents Find Balance
What if the secret to surviving modern parenthood isn’t in the latest parenting hack or self-help trend, but in ideas that are over 2,000 years old? From Aristotle’s concept of human flourishing to the Stoic...
How Nervous System Awareness Can Transform the Way You Parent
Parenting is often described as joyful, meaningful, and deeply rewarding. It is all of those things. But it is also exhausting, overwhelming, and at times, completely dysregulating for both parent and child...
A 3-Step Checklist to Help You With Boundaries
To me, one of the hardest parts of parenting is the contrast between being patient, positive, and supportive (and all the other things we are expected to be these days) and sometimes being “the bad guy.” You know...
6 Tips for Promoting Healthy Attachment with Your Child
Parenting is a very serious job. How we raise our children will determine so much of their health, self-esteem, curiosity, productivity, values, beliefs, confidence, empathy, relationships, and how they love...
Understanding Addiction and the Role of Conscious Parenting in Prevention
Vancouver is a paradox of fancy hotels, chic restaurants, and unaffordable real estate within walking distance of the Downtown Eastside. This neighborhood is known for its human misery, where sidewalk...
Your Child’s Big Feelings – Why They Trigger You and What to Do
Let me paint you a picture. Your child has just melted down in the middle of a grocery store or at the dinner table, or in the car, or really anywhere that is not convenient, which is to say, everywhere...
The Hidden Ways Parents Reinforce Anxiety in an Anxious Child and What to Do Instead
As a parent, seeing your child anxious can be heartbreaking, and your instinct is often to make it better by reassuring or avoiding triggers. However, this well-intentioned approach can inadvertently reinforce...
Early Airway Support in Children and How Myofunctional Therapy May Help Prevent Sleep Apnea
When parents hear the words “sleep apnea,” it can feel alarming. Images of sleep studies, medical equipment, and restless nights often come to mind. But for most children, airway concerns do not appear...
Why Removing Every Struggle May Be Holding Our Children Back
One of the most common patterns I observe when working with young athletes and their families has very little to do with soccer. It has to do with discomfort. More specifically, how quickly adults move to remove it...
