Parenting Quick Lessons

15 Minute Lessons

Discover effective strategies for managing finances in remarriage, balancing new and old family obligations for a smoother financial integration and a harmonious new family.

Build a Better Relationship with Your Tween

This course gives you practical tools to build a relationship with your tween based on trust, respect, and love. During these formative years, kids seek independence but still need guidance. Strengthening your bond now sets the stage for healthy communication and mutual respect in the teen years.

Building Parental Resilience

Learn to build resilience, manage parenting stress, and foster a nurturing environment for better family well-being.

Child Development Basics

Explore the evolving role of parenting, learn research-based strategies, and gain practical tools to foster positive parent-child relationships across all developmental stages.

Check-in Questions for New Parents to Stay Connected and Manage Conflict

With your spouse or partner, start a discussion on improving your relationship satisfaction, staying connected, and better managing conflict as you go through the challenging transition to parenthood.

Creating Rules and Consequences for (and with) Your Teens

As your teen becomes more independent, setting clear rules – and consequences for breaking rules – is essential. But instead of just telling them what to do, having a conversation together can help them take responsibility for their actions while also strengthening your relationship. In this course we will explore how to include your teens in helping to set rules and consequences as they get older.

Decoding and Soothing Your Baby's Cries

Learn why infants cry and discover effective soothing techniques. This lesson also addresses managing parental frustration and responses to help calm fussy babies.

Disagree Better: In the Home

Discover tips and tools for respectful and compassionate disagreements in the Disagree Better series, helping parents and children foster civility at home and beyond.

Disagree Better: It Starts With Me

Learn to disagree better with tips and tools to foster respect, compassion, and civility in parent-child interactions, both at home and beyond. Take notes for best results.

Disagree Better: Outside the Home

Learn four key principles for resolving disagreements with coworkers, classmates, and friends using the P.A.U.S.E. method to manage "internal irritation" effectively.

How to Talk about Cyberbullying and Online Predators

Discussing Cyberbullying and Online Predators

Learn strategies to teach youth safe tech use, prevent cyberbullying, avoid predators, and identify grooming tactics. Download slang terms list and set home boundaries.

Discussing Pornography with your Teen

Get practical, research-based tips for parents on discussing pornography with children, including conversation starters and insights on its impact on romantic relationships.

Discussing Rules and Consequences with Children

In this lesson, we’ll explore the importance of setting safe, age-appropriate boundaries for your children. You can better understand the important role consistent parenting plays in developing your children’s confidence and self-esteem and decreasing family arguments. You’ll receive tools to help you create an open dialog about the importance of building rules and consequences when the rules are broken.

Ending the Tug-of-War with “No” (Kids 2-6)

Healthy development in young children often includes resistance, negativity, and limit testing. As your children are developing a sense of autonomy and individual identity, they’re learning about cause and effect and their capacity to use their personal power to make choices. You want your children to cooperate with you while gaining the skills they need to make healthy choices. The parent tug-of-war with “no” is inevitable during those early years. However, when you view the intention of the negative action through a constructive lens, you can redirect resistance into cooperation and leave your child with a feeling of competence. Don’t give in or give up.

Enjoying Life More With Your Little Ones (Ages 2-6)

Toddlerhood and early childhood. As a parent, you know that these stages and phases include the highest highs and the lowest lows. We get to watch our little ones grow and become themselves, which is adorable, magical, and delightful! But that growth also includes major emotions, mind-blowing tantrums, a million demands, and lots of button-pushing. Sometimes we forget to enjoy our child because we’re exhausted from raising them. But there are ways to increase the joy and pleasure of a close, warm bond with your child.

Emotion Coaching for Parents: Building Resilient Children

Discover how parental modeling and emotion coaching significantly influence your child's social and emotional growth, fostering resilience and well-being through practical, research-based strategies.

Foundations of Gender and Sexual Development (Ages 2-6)

For many parents, considerations related to gender and sexuality don't come to mind when thinking about the development of their young children. As our toddlers grow, we focus on their physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development. However, our children's sexual and gender development are something we usually don’t think much about. Gender and sexuality are important facets of human development, however, and these areas of development begin at birth. By learning about these equally significant aspects of your child's growth, you can promote healthy development, bolster their resilience, create nurturing relationships, and keep them safe regardless of who they are inside and out.

Foundations of Gender and Sexual Development (Ages 7-12)

Raising our children brings a mix of wonderful and gratifying experiences as well as exhausting and difficult challenges. During the ages of 7 to 12, kids undergo significant developmental milestones, becoming more independent, better at problem-solving, maintaining friendships, and discovering their personal interests. They also begin navigating puberty and its accompanying changes. An often-overlooked aspect of child development during this time is their gender and sexuality development. It’s important to learn about these aspects of development to promote healthy growth, build resilience, create nurturing relationships, and keep children safe, regardless of who they are inside and out.

Giving Young Children Choices

Children aren’t born knowing how to make good choices—and they don’t simply pick it up with age. Children learn to make good decisions through guided practice, not simply by getting older. By offering choices within safe and reasonable limits, you can help build their independence and confidence. Both good and poor choices provide important learning opportunities that shape strong decision-making skills over time.

Guiding Teens in Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

Understand the adolescent brain and enhance your teen's decision-making and problem-solving skills with effective models, techniques, and strategies for delayed gratification.

Helping Children Wait Their Turn (ages 2–6)

What can you do to help a child wait their turn and develop the social skills needed to get along with others? It’s a challenge! Waiting for a turn can seem like an eternity for a young child who is driven by curiosity, has a short attention span, and is just learning to delay gratification and control impulsivity. But with patience, practice, and your positive input, they can do it!

Helping Children Do Things by Themselves

Growing independence is a key part of childhood. When kids feel supported in doing things on their own, they develop confidence, resilience, and problem-solving skills. But many parents struggle with how much freedom to give. In this lesson, you'll learn how to strike the right balance—encouraging independence while still providing the guidance your child needs to grow into a capable, confident individual.

Helping Children Learn from Mistakes

When you view children's mistakes as opportunities to teach, children will learn to take responsibility, solve problems, and cope with challenges. With your help and encouragement, children can develop resilience and learn to persist when mistakes and mishaps happen.

Helping a Child Who Keeps Interrupting You

Understand why your young children interrupt you and learn strategies to help them develop the capacity and skills to change their behavior and become more successful in social situations. This may be an especially valuable lesson for parents who work from home with young children around.

Helping Children Tell the Truth

Children may lie for a variety of reasons. This lesson will help you respond in ways that support their learning and growth. Designed for parents who want to guide their children with empathy and effectiveness when faced with dishonesty.

Helping Children When They Get Frustrated

In this lesson, you'll learn practical strategies to help your child manage feelings of frustration and develop healthy coping skills.

Helping Children Get Along with Siblings and Friends

This lesson focuses on helping parents help their child get along with siblings and friends by teaching the child to share, communicate, and consider others' feelings.

Helping Children & Teens Manage Stress

Discover how to spot stress symptoms in children and explore simple mindfulness exercises, including breathing techniques, to enhance their mental well-being.

Helping Children Manage Time (ages 7-12)

It’s important for parents to teach kids how to manage their time on their own while providing support from the sidelines rather than taking control. This lesson will show you how to shift from overseeing your child’s schedule to becoming a helpful guide when needed.

Helping Children Learn to Share

This lesson explores ways parents can help their children share.

Helping Children Understand and Resist Peer Pressure

Welcome to the journey of understanding peer pressure! This lesson is designed to give parents the knowledge and tools they need to help their children navigate the tricky waters of peer influence. You’ll learn how to spot the difference between positive encouragement from friends and negative pressure that can lead to risky behaviors. Together, we’ll explore ways to foster open communication and healthy identity exploration, all while building strong relationships that empower your child to make choices that reflect their values.

Helping your Teenager Balance Time with Family and Friends

Is your teen more interested in friends than family? This lesson gives parents simple tips for talking with their teen about balancing time between family and friends. Learn how to support your teen in managing these important relationships.

Helping Teens Manage and Understand Their Physical and Emotional Changes

In this lesson, you'll gain a basic understanding of puberty, including the physical, emotional, and psychological changes children experience as they transition into adolescence. You'll learn about specific changes in girls and boys and how to discuss these changes with your child to reassure and normalize their experiences.

Helping Teens and Tweens Make Friends (and Be a Friend)

Everyone can use more friends! But some young people these days struggle with this important part of life. This lesson is designed to help parents who want to help their tweens and teens create and maintain strong, healthy friendships.

Helping Teens Manage Grief, Change, and Loss

Have you ever wondered how to help a teen get through a difficult change or loss in life? It’s hard to see them struggle with grief, change, and loss. You can support them during this difficult time! Learn what to do and say that will help along the way.

Helping Your Child Learn to Recognize Feelings

Children don’t naturally know how to tune in to the feelings of others. Children learn to be sensitive to the feelings of others as parents are sensitive to their feelings and help them to be aware of the feelings of others. This course focuses on helping children learn to recognize the feelings of others.

How to Help Young Children Apologize

Everyone makes mistakes so learning how to apologize is an important skill to have in life. A full apology consists of understanding how the other person feels, acknowledging what you did wrong, and making an effort to repair the wrong. This lesson contains guiding principles that will help you teach your young child how to apologize in a way that builds empathy and fosters healthy relationships.

How to Inspire Your Children to Learn

This lesson provides research-based advice to parents for helping children grow their natural love of learning to be lifelong learners.

How to Talk to Your Teen or Young Adult About Dating

Talking to your teenager or young adult child about dating and romantic relationships can feel exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. As they navigate the complex world of relationships, they're forming values, boundaries, expectations, and connections that will shape their lives for years to come. As a parent, your response matters more than you might think. This lesson is designed to help you approach conversations with confidence, empathy, and openness—fostering connection rather than conflict, and supporting your teen or young adult in building healthy, respectful relationships.

How to Teach Kids and Use Consequences

Knowing how to deal with your child’s misbehavior can be challenging. Under the right conditions, consequences are important tools for teaching children responsibility, accountability, and better decision-making skills. In this lesson, you will learn how misbehavior can lead to opportunities for teaching and growth as well as principles for using consequences in a way that is fair, effective, and compassionate. You will also learn how to create a supportive environment where children feel guided rather than punished, helping them to thrive.

Making and Keeping a Positive Connection With Your Adult Child

Learn how to support adult children in developing independence and resilience by strengthening the parent-child relationship. We’ll cover topics such as better understanding your adult child’s world, setting boundaries, and prioritizing your well-being while parenting adult children.

Making and Keeping Technology Rules

It may seem like they’re plugged into their phone or the computer all the time. Parents are understandably concerned about the effects of the digital world on their teen’s mental health and relationships. There are concerns about cyberbullying, digital overuse, effects on attention, inappropriate media, online safety, and a lack of privacy.

Making and Keeping a Positive Connection with Your Teen

Discover what your teen truly needs to feel connected to you. Shift your parenting style to foster a strong, authentic, and lasting bond with your teen.

Making Reading Fun and Effective

Welcome to this lesson on making reading fun and effective for children ages 2-6. In this course, you'll learn practical strategies to help develop your child's love of reading and build important literacy skills.

Managing Parenting Style Differences

It’s normal for parents to have different approaches to raising their children. One parent may be strict and structured, while the other is more relaxed and permissive. Sometimes these differences are resolved with calm conversations. Other times, they lead to conflict, stress in the relationship, and confusion for the kids. This lesson will help you learn to navigate differences in parenting styles.

Money Management for Teens

Parents are the most influential on teens' financial literacy, impacting their lifelong financial, relational, physical, and mental health more than schools, peers, or media.

Money Management for Tweens

Parents are the key influence on children's financial literacy, impacting their future health. Learn principles to confidently teach kids essential money skills for lifelong success.

Nurture and Compassion: The Heart of Parenting

Discover effective ways to show love and compassion to your children, ensuring they feel valued and nurtured every day.

Navigating Postpartum Realities

Discover postpartum myths, challenges, wellness tips, and valuable resources to support your journey in this lesson. Navigate postpartum with confidence and care.

Navigating Mental Health Conversations with Your Child

Learn practical skills to discuss mental health with children, recognize warning signs, understand causes, and challenge stigmas. Support your child's well-being effectively.

Potty Training Made Easy

In this lesson, we will identify mental and physical signs indicating your child’s readiness for potty training. We will help you establish an effective training environment by creating positive associations with bathroom habits. We will discuss effective strategies for maintaining patience, managing emotions, and providing consistent support and praise. This lesson will address how to manage common potty-training issues while promoting your child’s independence and self-esteem.

Pregnancy Myths & Wellness Tips

Discover myths about pregnancy, overcome challenges, and boost your wellness with expert tips and reliable support resources in this lesson.

Problem-Solving Alongside Your Child

Learn a step-by-step process to help your child effectively problem-solve, support their daily challenges, and guide them in evaluating outcomes.

Resolving Conflict with Your Teen

Learn effective conflict-management skills for parents: stay emotionally regulated, communicate opinions, solve problems with teens, and apologize when necessary.

Responding to Children Who Want to Help

Children love to help. As parents, we like to get things done with the least fuss and mess. The way to bridge those two realities is to find wise and sensible ways of involving children in helping us. Getting children involved helps them grow, learn, and feel valued.

Responding to Your Teen's Disrespectful Words and Behavior

Respect goes both ways—kids and teens learn to show respect by experiencing it. This lesson teaches parents how to create a respectful home by showing respect and empathy. And this lesson provides valuable tips for handling disrespectful behavior from your teen, including remaining calm, taking a cool-down period, if needed, and addressing their behavior in a constructive way.

Responding When Your Child Hits

In this lesson, we’ll focus on strategies to prevent your children from hitting (and many of these techniques are also effective for addressing biting). We’ll talk about understanding children’s emotions, and how your behavior affects your child’s behavior. Last, we’ll talk about your child’s mental health and how it might affect hitting behavior.

Selecting and Reading Books to Babies

In this lesson, we delve into why it is important to read to infants. It helps your relationship and their development. We’ll look at reasons to read to babies, how to choose appropriate books, and ways to engage your baby with books.

Nurture and Compassion: Tips for Self-care and Managing Stress

Self-care and Stress Management

Effective parenting requires balancing self-care and stress management. Thriving parents can better support their children's challenges and ensure their well-being.

Setting Reasonable Limits and Rules for Children

Learn to guide your children with effective limits and rules by entering your child’s world and using methods that honor their dignity and help them take responsibility. This lesson is for parents who want to teach their children to act responsibly.

Soothing a Colicky Baby

Caring for a baby who cries for hours at a time can leave even the most prepared parents feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do next. If your baby has colic or cries excessively, you're not alone. In this lesson, you'll learn what colic is, when to seek medical guidance, practical techniques to soothe your baby, and strategies to care for your own emotional well-being. Discover research-based tools to help you navigate this challenging stage with greater confidence, patience, and support.

Strategies for Effective Discipline

Discover effective child discipline for ages 7-12. Learn to create supportive environments, address challenges, and foster cooperation and self-discipline. Start your journey today.

Helping Young Children Deal with Loss, Grief, and Change

Supporting Children Through Loss, Grief, and Change

Discover effective strategies for helping young children (ages 2-6) cope with major loss or change, fostering resilience and healthy coping mechanisms for grieving kids.

Talking to Teens About Drugs and Substance Use

Ever wondered how to respond when your teen brings up drugs or substance use? This lesson empowers you as a parent or caregiver to confidently navigate these challenging conversations and build stronger, more trusting relationships with your teen. Through practical guidance and real-world examples, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge to discuss the risks of substance use, set boundaries rooted in your family values, and support your teen in making healthy choices. Start meaningful dialogues and become the supportive influence your teen needs during these formative years.

Talking to Your Adult Child About Finances

Navigate financial parenting of adult children: Learn key principles for balancing independence and financial support, ensuring healthy parent-child relationships and financial well-being.

Talking with Your Teen Without Sounding Critical

Parenting a teenager can feel like walking a tightrope—balancing love and limits, patience and frustration, connection and correction. Teens often appear confident on the outside, yet inside they’re navigating deep insecurities, strong emotions, and a growing need for independence. In these moments, your words matter more than ever. How you respond—especially when your teen is upset or defiant—can either build trust or create distance.

This lesson explores the power of compassionate communication. You’ll learn how to recognize emotional “hot spots,” respond in ways that calm rather than criticize, and create an environment where your teen feels safe, respected, and open to your influence.

How to Successfully Teach & Guide Children

Teaching & Guiding Children

Learn how to guide your children effectively by focusing on teaching better behavior, building loving relationships, setting expectations, and fostering responsibility.

Teaching Your Child How to Solve Problems (Ages 7-12)

Help your child become a confident problem-solver. In this lesson, parents will discover practical ways to teach problem-solving skills to children ages 7 to 12. Learn how to nurture independence, boost confidence, and spark creativity—giving your child the tools to tackle life’s big and little challenges.

Teaching Your Child How to Solve Problems (Ages 2-6)

Helping children become independent problem-solvers is one of the most valuable skills parents can teach. In this lesson, you'll discover how to encourage resilience, build confidence, and support your young child's emotional regulation—without always stepping in to fix their problems.

Teaching Your Kids About Emotions and Empathy

When kids learn to understand other people’s feelings, they make stronger friendships, handle conflicts better, and become kinder and more respectful. This lesson gives parents easy, practical ways to help their children develop empathy in daily life.

Technoference in Parent-Child Relationships

This lesson focuses on identifying and reducing technoference in the parent-child relationship. It also will encourage parents to create some guidelines around technology use in their homes.

The Journey of Pregnancy: The First Trimester

Pregnancy is a time of wonder, change, and challenges. The changes a mother's body undergoes in preparation for carrying and giving birth to the baby, are more noticeable than the development of the baby. So, what exactly happens in the uterus? What changes will your baby go through?

We will break down the development of the development of the baby week by week and touch on the changes that you may experience due to the baby's development.

Tips for Better Bedtime Routines

If bedtime feels like an endless battle in your home, you’re not alone. Many parents face nightly struggles with their children’s sleep. But there’s good news—understanding why sleep is so important and how to work with your child’s natural rhythms can make a huge difference.

Understanding Teen Identity Development, Independence, and Autonomy

This lesson is about teen identity formation, focusing on independence and autonomy. Parents will learn tips for fostering healthy autonomy in their teens that will help support their identity development.

Understanding and Preventing Parental Burnout

Discover why parenting is challenging, identify signs of burnout, and learn strategies to replenish and prevent parental exhaustion with accessible resources.

Understanding Your Child's World

Learn to understand and respond to your child's behavior with principles of support, compassion, and understanding. Gain essential parenting skills for better communication.

Understanding Your Child's Misbehavior

As a parent, you want your kids to behave in a certain way. You likely want them to be respectful and mindful of the needs of others, take responsibility for the things they do, and grow to be good neighbors and law-abiding citizens. So, you do your best to set reasonable rules and limits to teach them good behavior.

Using Concrete Support in Tough Times

People need to have solid support to overcome challenges and succeed. This means having access to important resources like money, social connections, and community services. By looking at real-life situations such as job loss, illness, or having a baby, people can see how these kinds of support affect their well-being and family life. The lesson explains how stressful events and circumstances can impact mental health and parenting. And it will help you learn how to make use of concrete supports to lessen those stresses.

Why Teens Push Boundaries, and Tips for Responding

This lesson focuses on understanding why teens push boundaries in the search for autonomy and identity. We provide some practical solutions to help parents know how to effectively respond when their teens are pushing boundaries.