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Positive Parenting

Parenting is a journey that shapes our children’s futures and their well-being for life. Here, we publish the latest insights and research findings on ways to improve parenting style and support healthy child development.

Download 3 Free Positive Parenting Exercises (PDF)

These detailed, science-based exercises will equip you or your clients with tools to improve parenting styles and support healthy child development.

Parenting Styles

Parenting Styles: Are You Helping or Hurting? 3 Quizzes

Navigating the complexities of parenthood involves understanding various parenting styles and their impact on children’s development. From authoritarian to permissive, each approach reflects differing beliefs [...]

Conscious parenting

Conscious Parenting: A Mindful Approach to Parenting

Parenting is one of the most enriching and challenging roles we can undertake in our lifetimes. There is a growing interest in alternative approaches to [...]

Gentle parenting

Unleashing the Power of Gentle Parenting (& 3 Examples)

Parenting is a beautiful and deeply rewarding, but also often a confusing and overwhelming journey. We all want to raise happy and well-adjusted children. However, [...]

Temper tantrums

Taming Temper Tantrums: Behavior Management for Toddlers

All parents have been there: whining, screaming, crying, throwing things, lying down on the floor, and refusing to get up. Hopefully, it’s the children doing [...]

Authoritative parenting

Authoritative Parenting: Guiding With Warmth and Firmness

Parenting is rarely taught, so it must be learned quickly on the job. The parenting styles we adopt may not always be the most effective, [...]

Mental health in teens

Mental Health in Teens: 10 Risk & Protective Factors

31.9% of adolescents have anxiety-related disorders (ADAA, n.d.). According to Solmi et al. (2022), the age at which mental health disorders most commonly begin to [...]

Anger management teens

Anger Management for Teens: Helpful Worksheets & Resources

Anger is not all bad. Used strategically, it can help us pursue our goals and, within limits, drive us to find a happier and healthier [...]

child therapist

Choosing a Child Therapist: Your Questions Answered

It is heartbreaking to see your child struggling. But when you’ve hit that point of “I just don’t know how to solve this problem” or [...]

positive parenting books and training

12 Best Positive Parenting Books & Workbooks for Parents

Without a doubt, parenting is one of the most rewarding and challenging roles we may undertake in our lives. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach [...]

positive parenting

What is Positive Parenting? 33 Examples and Benefits

Most adults will become parents at some point in their lives (i.e., around 89.6% of the adult population worldwide; Ranjan, 2015). And while most of [...]