Spreading Factual Information about Social and Emotional Learning

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The Best of Confident Parents’ Halloween Posts…

Want to get into the Halloween spirit? Check out our best Halloween posts from the past years!

The Importance of Fear and Sensitivity

How can we teach our children and teens to cultivate a healthy relationship with fear?

Transforming Whining into Positive Connections

“Mooooommmmm, I don’t want to do my homework,” seven-year-old Elaina says in a nasily, high-pitched, and sing-song (in a fingernails-on-a-chalkboard, not melodic) way. The powerful whine is wielded to get her Mom’s attention. And it works every time. How can you not hear, turn toward, and grimace at that tone? In fact, research confirms what …

The Natural, Necessary and Unnecessary Pressures on a High Schooler

How can parents best support teens and not add unnecessary pressure?

The Swirling Vortex of Our Child’s Inner World

How adept are you at voicing what’s going on inside of you? It’s even tougher for tweens and teens!

Raising Bilingual Children

Learn about the experience of a Confident Parent author and immigrant from Spain on raising bilingual children in the U.S.

Coalition to Provide the Facts about the Importance of Social and Emotional Learning

More than ever, the social and emotional learning of our children is of top importance!

Supporting Children through the Death of a Loved One

Children’s level of awareness with death is different from our own so how can we learn their perspectives to better support them?

“When It’s Not Quite Bullying…But It’s Still So Mean” Dear Highlights Podcast

Discussing forms of meanness, how it occurs, and how we can help our children through moments that hurt.