Thriving Child Center Blog
Feeling Touched Out? It’s Okay to Set Limits with Your Kids
Feeling touched out? I’m sharing parenting tips for setting healthy parenting boundaries with your kids without the guilt.
How To Get Your Kid to Actually Try a Vegetable Tonight (with Jennifer Anderson From Kids Eat in Color)
Learn how to get kids to eat vegetables with simple tips for picky eaters that reduce mealtime pressure and make trying new foods more fun.
Why Parenting Feels Harder During Perimenopause - and What to Do (with Elisabeth Netherton)
Learn how perimenopause symptoms and brain fog in women can affect parenting, mood, anxiety, and overwhelm, plus what you can do to cope.
How to Take Care of Yourself With a Baby at Home - The Counterintuitive Advice That Works with Elyse Traverse
Practical advice for new moms and overwhelmed parents to ease mom guilt, find postpartum support, and care for yourself while caring for your new baby.
How to Help Your Child (and Yourself) With Back-to-School Anxiety
Learn how to validate feelings, notice signs and symptoms of childhood anxiety, and manage back-to-school anxiety with practical strategies that helps build confident parenting.
What to Do When Your Young Child Tells You That Something Upsetting Happened (with Jenny Hughes)
Learn how to validate feelings, improve communication with children, and use positive parenting techniques with Jenny Hughes.
How to Make Back-to-School Mornings Painless (with Whitney Fosco)
Learn a morning routine for kids with practical parenting help, effective rewards for kids, and simple positive parenting tips.
What to Do When Your Kid Says, "I Hate You!"
Learn what to do when your child says I hate you, improve communication with children, and handle child emotional outbursts with confidence.
The Three Things I Do When My Own Kids Are Struggling
Build confident parenting by recognizing the signs of emotional distress in child and strengthening parent-child connection.
How to Respond When Your Child Overreacts
Discover how to validate feelings, support healthy ways of expressing emotions, and build emotional resilience.
Why Your Child Won't Take Responsibility (and What to Do About It)
Learn why kids avoid responsibility and how effective parenting helps children practice taking responsibility.
How to Co-Regulate With Your Toddler (So It Actually Works) with Emma Girard
Discover how co-regulation and positive parenting techniques can help you confidently navigate toddler tantrums.
Should You Panic?! When to Take Your Child to the ER Urgently with Dr. Kailey Buller
Learn when to take your child to the ER, child health concerns, and parenting help for keeping healthy children safe.
How to Help Your Kids Talk About Hard Things: The Counterintuitive Way to Get Them to Open Up
Learn positive ways to talk to your child , improve communication with children, and support healthy ways of expressing emotions.
Why Kids Swear (and How to Make It Stop)
Learn why toddler swearing happens and how positive parenting techniques can reduce attention-seeking behavior.
How to Help Your Teen Choose a Career (Without Increasing Their Anxiety) with Jocelyn Abrams
Learn how to support teens through academic stress with career guidance for teens, positive parenting techniques, and parenting resources.
Natural Consequences Are Overrated: How to Set Fair Consequences for Kids
Learn when natural consequences work, how to use age-appropriate consequences, and healthier types of discipline from a parenting expert.
How to Handle Sibling Fighting in the Car (Without Losing Your Mind)
Learn how to handle kids fighting in the car using effective parenting, engaging car activities, and realistic travel tips for kids.
What to Do When Your Kid Says, “I’m Bored” (With Rachel Currie-Rubin and Cassandra Golding)
Struggling with boredom? Discover what to do when kids are bored using independent play and positive parenting techniques.
What to Do Tonight After You Snap at Your Kids (And Feel Guilty About It)
Discover how to apologize to your child, use positive parenting techniques, and build effective parenting skills across parenting styles.