The Best of 2015

2015 was a significant year of growth for Confident Parents, Confident Kids. Check out all of the additions to this site and other sites and organizations in my year in review. Then I’ve listed the top most popular articles of the year. Hope you’ll check out the ones you may have missed. I am truly grateful …

Confident Parents, Confident Kids’ Designs for VIDA – Order by Dec. 2nd for Christmas Shipping

  Thank you for your awesome response to my collaboration with VIDA, an organization that brings together artists like myself and makers of clothing around the world in a socially responsible way. If you plan to put an order a beautiful scarf or shirt as a Christmas gift, they can only guarantee delivery before Christmas if you …

How Do You Cultivate Gratitude in your Family?

This month, in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am focusing on gratitude and how a family can instill gratitude in their daily lives. Help me with my research and contribute to our community!   In what ways do you promote a sense of gratefulness in your family? Do you have any rituals that you …

Final Day for Discount + BONUS!

FINAL DAY for DISCOUNT on Memberships and BONUS FREE ITEMS! Don’t miss out! Webinars begin in early November. Today is the LAST DAY to register as a member with the discount. And today ONLY, I will offer two bonus items that will be sent to you FREE in addition to all of the deep learning …

Announcing Confident Parents Academy! And Video # 3 – The Power of Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning

Today is the official opening of Confident Parents Academy! Now readers can become members and enjoy deeper learning resources through webinars, weekly tools and tips, support for putting practices into place at home and direct coaching on your family’s challenges. Parents are so often told what not to do, but seldom offered simple, research-based strategies …

Using “Inside Out” to Discuss Emotions with Kids; A New Article by Jennifer Miller on NBC’s Parent Toolkit

Hope you’ll check out “More Than A Movie: The Parenting Opportunity of ‘Inside Out’” by CPCK’s author, Jennifer Miller on NBC’s Parent Toolkit. The movie creates a significant opportunity to discuss the role of emotions in our lives if parents seize it! There are reflection questions and a discussion of each age/stage that might view …

CPCK’s Author Jennifer Miller in the Deseret National News

Check out the article Emotional Intelligence Is No Accident by Lois Collins published today in the Deseret National News. It begins… From the time her son Ethan was a toddler, Jennifer Miller tried to help him find appropriate ways to express his frustrations. If he would bite, hit or throw tantrums — perfectly normal for …

Your Story

If you read this blog, then you already know that cultivating social and emotional skills in our kids is not a luxury but an essential for preparing caring, confident and contributing adults. We can only learn and improve as parents through this dialogue if we share our stories. So I am hoping you might share …

“The Power of Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning” in Huffington Post Today!

Check out my article, “The Power of Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning” on the Huffington Post Education site today! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/smart-parents/the-power-of-parenting-wi_b_7071208.html

Elements of a Confident Kid…Kindness

: of a sympathetic or helpful nature 1 About Kindness It is said that at the root of kindness is compassion. Compassion has to do simultaneously with how we feel about and care for ourselves and how we feel about and care for one another. When you walk into another family’s house, there is typically a …

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