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.
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...
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...
They Gave Me Everything, A Different Way to Understand the Empty Nest
There is a narrative we often hear about the empty nest. It is a story of loss, silence, and identity fading when children grow up and move forward into their own lives. It paints a picture of a house...
Raising Children Who Can Feel in a Noisy World With Nervous System Wisdom
Picture this. A child sits at a small desk, juggling a flurry of notifications from multiple devices while trying to focus on math homework that requires a calculator and a stack of reference books...
Is It Your Child or Your Parenting That’s Causing Issues?
After a childhood fraught with her parents’ mental and physical illness, abandonment, and profound loss, Tina Feigal is grateful to use her experiences as powerful "fuel". What she went through as a kid...
How Online Gaming Companies Are Destroying Our Children's Lives?
There’s a word we carry quietly, locked behind the armour we build to survive, lonely. For men, especially those stumbling through the long shadow of childhood trauma, loneliness is not just a passing mood. It’s an epidemic, gnawing at self-worth, sabotaging connection, and deepening wounds that never seem to heal.
How to Support Your Anxious Child and What Really Helps
When your child is anxious, every instinct tells you to fix it, soothe it, or make it disappear. But what if real, lasting change doesn’t come from eliminating anxiety, but from helping your child learn they can...
Parent Mental Health Day – How the Wellbeing of Parents Shapes the Future
Every year on 30 January, Parent Mental Health Day invites us to pause and reflect on a truth that is both simple and profound, when parents are well, families flourish. Founded by the UK-based youth...
Understanding Matrescence – The Process of Becoming a Mother
Motherhood is one of the most profound transformations a woman can experience. Beyond the visible changes to daily life, it initiates a deep internal shift. One that reshapes identity, priorities...
How to Become an Intuitive Parent
In today’s world, we have access to so much information about parenting, as well as everything else. It’s wonderful and, at times, overwhelming. Do you ever wish you didn’t have so many conflicting...
A Mother's Journey – Celebrating Strength, Love, and Triumph
Liz Lindenbauer is a talented writer and producer, and above all, a devoted mother to Eva. With pride and warmth, she introduces her remarkable daughter, whose strength, spirit and individuality...
