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.
How to Navigate Screen Battles with Conscious Parenting
In the 80s, the only screen I grew up with was a heavy television set anchored in our living room. Today, we access sensational 24/7 news and social media commentary from pocket devices...
Should Kids Study Over the Summer? Why the Usual Answers Are Both Wrong
A teacher and EdTech founder on the summer slide, the case for rest, and how much study actually helps. Every June, the same question lands in my inbox. It comes from parents, and lately it comes from...
Why Co-Regulation Matters More Than Discipline
Many adults were taught that discipline means controlling behavior. But neuroscience shows us something different: children regulate through connection before they regulate independently. Long...
Raising Kids in the Age of Doomscrolling, Algorithms, and the Highlight Reel
I asked my sixteen-year-old recently whether he wanted me to lift the screen time limit on a game he enjoys, after a bit of a moan about how he only has 15 minutes. He thought about it for a moment...
Social Media is Not Safe for Gay Dads
Most of our lives are spent online. We work. We shop. We chat. We share. We connect. All online. However, this online world - much like our real world, does not treat everyone equally. LGBTQ+ people are...
How To Manage Parenting Grief
When we become parents, naturally our focus shifts heavily from self to other and this is part of the beauty of raising a child. However, this focus can sometimes lead us to deny or not fully process our...
What If Your Teenager’s Behaviour is Nervous System Communication?
This article explores how nervous system dysregulation can show up in teenagers through posture, breath, movement, and shutdown responses and why these physical patterns are often misread as behaviour...
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...
