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Consider Presence over Presents: Promoting Gratitude with our Kids
Tips on spending quality time together, promoting gratitude in kids and how to stop the whining at the store this festive season
Teamwork is key when parents disagree
Parenting arguments are common at times. It is how parents work as a team to handle this parental conflict that makes a difference.
Team parenting for grandparents
Team parenting for grandparents is all about finding ways to support your children and build healthy relationships and connections within your family.
Apart but together: Co-parenting after separation or divorce
Co parenting children can be challenging. Children adjust better when separated parents communicate, put children first, and set consistent rules and routines.
Cyberbullying: Three Conversations to Have With Kids
Today, kids have many ways to connect with others online. While it can be great to interact with family and friends, there are also downsides, especially with the risks of cyberbullying.
Chores for Kids: Age-Appropriate Tips and Strategies
Let's talk about something most parents and caregivers can relate to – chores for kids. Most dream of kids willingly helping with jobs around the home, and maybe even being happy to do it.
How to handle tantrums: try these positive parenting tips
Are you struggling to know how to handle tantrums? You’re not alone. These positive parenting tips can help.
Aggressive Behavior in Children: 5 Parenting Tips
Hitting, kicking, biting: aggressive behavior in children can be tough to handle. These parenting tips can help.
How to stop yelling at your kids: try these parenting strategies
Want to know how to stop yelling at kids, and start feeling calmer? Try these parenting strategies.
Supercharging self-esteem: how to build confidence in children
Supercharging Self-esteem: How to Build Confidence in Children
Kids fighting? Try these positive tips to reduce the rivalry
When kids argue, fight, bicker, blame or disagree, it can be stressful for parents and caregivers. Try these parenting tips to calmly reduce rivalry and help them get along better.
Tact, Timing, Tuning In: Communicating with Teenagers and Pre-teens
How to stay connected with teenagers and pre-teens, even when they shut you out? Try these positive parenting strategies.
Five Ways to Build Meaningful Connections with Children
Positive connections help kids learn, develop and thrive. Make the moments count with these five tips.
Bonding With Babies: Nurturing Your Connection
Bonding with babies is a gradual getting-to-know-you process. What can parents and caregivers do to strengthen the bond? Read these parenting tips.
Supporting Children Through Big Milestones: Five Tips
Child care, pre-school and school are all big milestones for kids. What can parents and carers do to help them adjust? Here are five positive tips.
How to model emotional wellbeing for your children
We can teach our kids kindness and empathy. Warm, consistent, and supportive relationships encourage them to develop self-confidence, independence, and the ability to manage emotions and behaviors.
Parents receive crucial help with support from OC Health Care Agency and Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
Orange County’s investment in Triple P now complemented with billions of dollars in new federal and state dollars aimed at helping families manage mental health crises
Taking positive action when life feels out of control
If you can step back and look at a problem like a puzzle or challenge, it’s easier to think of potential solutions.
Helping parents avoid ‘burnout’ amid extra stress
New research says emotional competence helps balance risk of ‘perfect parent burnout’
Listening and cooperating are skills that take time to develop
We want to raise our children to grow up to think for themselves. But to develop this skill, children (and even teenagers) also must try out different ways of thinking and behaving to see what happens. They also need to make some of their own choices and decisions. As challenging as this can sometimes be for parents, recognizing it as an important developmental skill can help parents understand what’s happening. This helps parents learn to handle such situations more effectively, and teach new skills.