Thriving Child Center Blog
How to Reset Expectations and Build Healthy Screen Time Boundaries at Restaurants
Learn how to reset expectations, shift screen time habits, and create clear screen time boundaries at restaurants using practical positive parenting tips.
How to Balance Extracurricular Activities in a Busy Family Without Mom Guilt With Rachel Fein
Struggling to balance extracurricular activities in a busy family? Learn how to reduce mom guilt, prevent overscheduling, and choose meaningful physical activity for kids with insights from child psychologist Rachel Fein
How to Transform Your Relationship With Your Child in 5 Minutes Per Day
Discover how improving your relationship with your child in just 5 minutes per day can lead to calmer behavior and more confident parenting. Practical positive parenting tips you can use immediately.
How to Help Your Kids Build a Healthy Relationship With Food in a Diet Culture World With Sehrish Ali
Learn how to support a healthy relationship with food, navigate diet culture, and improve child eating habits with expert parenting resources.
How to Avoid Toxic Masculinity and Build Emotional Literacy in Boys With Kristin Mervich
Discover how confident parenting and evidence-based parenting support emotional literacy in boys. This episode helps you avoid toxic masculinity while trusting yourself in your parenting choices.
A Pep Talk: Letting Go of the Pressure to Create Holiday Magic
Feeling the weight of holiday magic? A pep talk helps parents release perfectionism and focus on what really matters. Learn positive parenting tips that support confident parenting even when holiday plans fall apart.
Preparing for Holiday Gatherings with Confident Parenting Techniques
Learn how holiday gatherings can feel smoother with child emotion regulation, practical positive parenting tips, and supportive, confident parenting.
Teaching Kids Emotions and Identifying Feelings for Fewer Blow Ups
Learn how emotional literacy and identifying feelings help you support your child, prevent blow-ups, and feel less like an overwhelmed parent.
No One Knows What They’re Doing with a Newborn, and It’s Okay: Prepare for Parenthood with Dr. Kailey Buller
Practical first-time parenting tips and warm first-time parenting tips to help any overwhelmed parent prepare for parenthood with real evidence-based parenting support.
Traveling With Kids: My Best Strategies After Years of Holiday Trips (Copy)
Warm guidance for traveling with kids on holiday trips with best strategies, no screens routines, and simple positive parenting tips for calmer travel.
How I Build Healthy Self-Confidence in My Daughter (And How You Can Do It Too)
Practical ways to raise confident kids and grow healthy self-confidence using positive self-talk for kids and proven evidence-based parenting techniques.
When To Take Your Child to the Doctor for a Fever (Or Wait It Out at Home): Pediatrician Advice From Ross Newman (Dr. Rossome)
Learn when to take your child to the doctor, manage fevers in kids, reduce parental anxiety, and apply positive parenting tips from expert pediatrician advice.
How to Help Your Child Get Their Homework Done with Evan Weinberger: Including Homework Planner and Checklists for Kids
Learn how to improve executive function with simple tools like a homework planner, checklists for kids, and better time management for teens.
When Halloween Pressure Hits: What to Do If Your Child Feels Pushed Into Scary Situations
Support your child this season with expert advice on Halloween pressure, how to deal with peer pressure, and recognizing symptoms of teenage stress in scary situations
What If Parenting Trends Are Hurting Your Parental Relationship More Than Helping?
Discover how evidence-based parenting and teaching kids boundaries can repair your parental relationship and cut through confusing parenting trends.
Why Praising Children Matters More Than You Think: How to Praise Your Child with Julia Lair
Learn how to praise your child the right way. Discover the real benefits of praising a child and simple ways of promoting positive behaviour.
What to Do When Your Child Won’t Pick a Halloween Costume
What to do when your child won’t pick a Halloween costume: Real talk for parents on Halloween about kids Halloween costumes and setting boundaries with kids.
How to Get Your Kids to Brush Their Teeth: Toothbrushing Tips with Dr. Robert Geiman
Parent-tested advice on how to get your kids to brush their teeth. From toothbrushing for toddlers to independence, hear Dr. Geiman’s best toothbrushing tips.
How to Get Your Kids to Cooperate with Positive Reinforcement Parenting (Even When You’re in Parenting Hell)
Have you ever wondered if there are simple child reward system ideas that actually work when your kids are melting down? As a psychologist - and a mom who’s been right there in the chaos - I’ll walk you through how to use positive reinforcement parenting in real life to turn things around quickly.
What Age Should a Child Get a Cell Phone? The Truth About Phones for Kids Every Parent Needs to Hear with Dr. Rupa Robbins
Does the question, “what age should a child get a cell phone?” keep you up at night? If you’ve wondered “should kids have smartphones?”, wrestled with all of the reason’s why not to give your child a phone yet, or need a script for setting phone rules, this is your roadmap.