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Getting Started?

Explore a process for dealing with simple and challenging parenting topics, discover ways to promote a healthy parenting relationship, and learn how to better communicate with your child.

Guidance and Discipline for Skill Building

Learn how you can choose to be purposeful and deliberate in the ways you provide guidance and discipline.

Intentional Ways to Grow a Healthy Parenting Relationship

Learn how you can choose to be purposeful and deliberate in the ways you parent to create a foundation for your child’s success.

Parenting Process for Success

Learn how to use the 5-steps of the Tools for Your Child’s Success parenting process with your child at every age.

Podcast

Introducing The Tools for Your Child's Success Podcast - Episode 1

Join the Tools for Your Child's Success podcast in conversations about the challenges and the joys of being in a parenting role.

Guidance and Discipline for Skill Building - Episode 2

In this episode, we have a conversation about how providing guidance with discipline can grow skills and improve our relationships with our children. We are joined by Jennifer Miller, author of the book, Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence In Ourselves and Our Kids — From Toddlers to Teenagers.

Intentional Ways to Grow a Healthy Parenting Relationship - Episode 3

In this conversation, we talk about our relationships with our children. Joined by Dr. Shannon Wanless, an Applied Developmental Psychologist and the Director for the Office of Child Development at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, we learn intentional ways we can grow a healthy relationship that can be a foundation for our children’s success.

Parenting Process for Success - Episode 4

In this episode, we have a conversation about a step-by-step process parents or someone in a parenting role can follow for dealing with simple and challenging parenting topics. The process can help to build critical life skills and improve your relationship with your child.

Social and Emotional Development - Episode 5

In this conversation, we talk about social and emotional development. We are joined by Maurice Elias, Ph.D., one of the pioneers of social and emotional development, director of the Rutgers University Social-Emotional Development Lab, and author of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting. We discuss the importance of social and emotional development for a child’s success.

Communication - Episode 6

In this episode, we talk about intentional communication. Intentional communication is a way of communicating that deliberately fosters social and emotional skill development. It supports and enhances the relationship between parents and their child.

Having Conversations About Alcohol and Drug Use - Episode 7

In this episode, we talk about some of the conversations we should be having with our children about alcohol and drugs and get specific ideas about what those conversations could sound like.

Being at Your Best as a Parent. Taking Care of Your Health and Well-being - Episode 8

In this episode, we have a conversation about ways parents and those in a parenting role can be at their best for their children. We discuss intentional ways to develop our own skills and care for our own well-being – both physical and mental. We welcome back Jennifer Miller, author of the book, Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence In Ourselves and Our Kids — From Toddlers to Teenagers.

Improve Your Relationship With Your Parenting Partner - Part 1 - Episode 9

As parents, we want to be at our best for our children. In part 1 of this episode, we discuss how taking care of our own health and wellbeing can include learning ways to improve our relationships with our parenting partners.

Improve Your Relationship With Your Parenting Partner - Part 2 - Episode 10

In part 2 of this episode, we continue the conversation on ways to improve our relationships with our parenting partners.

Parent Judgement - Episode 11

In this episode, we discuss parent judgment: dealing with criticism and unsolicited advice, the impact it can have on parents and children, how we can develop empathy and understanding towards others' choices, and tips for overcoming being judged by others.

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“I Feel…” Feelings Chart

Teach your child feeling words to help in their emotional growth now and through their teen years.

Parenting Process for Your Child’s Success Printable Graphic

A one-page printable graphic of a step by step process to build critical life skills and improve your relationship with your child.

Parenting Process for Your Child’s Success Printable Graphic Summary

Parenting Process for Your Child’s Success Printable Graphic Summary.