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.

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.

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.

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.

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 & 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.

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.

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.

Helping Children Learn to Share

This lesson explores ways parents can help their children share.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.