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Raise Children with Big Hearts and Strong Minds

When your child is born the nerve connection between their heart and their mind isn’t fully formed. As your child begins to experience emotions and stress, those nerves strengthen. As parents, we are part of that experience. Our task as parents is to nurture that inner world — their emotional intelligence, self-regulation, compassion, and growth mindset,Ā their hearts and minds. Give your children strong roots so that they will thrive.

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Parenting Grounded in Science and Love

As a child psychologist and mother, I have found that nothing replaces your best instincts as a parent and yet, sometimes our instincts fail us — because parenting is hard.Ā  That’s when we can turn to research-backed strategies as the tools to have in our back pocket for the moments when we need something a little more to guide our kids or help them develop life-skills so they will thrive.

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Grow Kids With Big Hearts

Mindful Feelings SpaceThe Mindful Emotions Toolkitā„¢ will help you create a dream calm-down space in your home and in your heart.

When you create a space or a basket with these printables and not only are you creating a physical space for your child to mindfully manage their emotions, but you are creating an emotional space as well.

The best gift you can give to another human is to stay with them in their emotion.Ā ToĀ holdĀ that emotion with them.Ā For younger children emotions are abstract. Concrete tools like the ones in this printable help childrenĀ understand emotions, work through their emotions, and also recenter.

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3-Step Positive Parenting System: Respond instead of Reacting to Your Child

3-Step Positive Parenting System: Respond instead of Reacting to Your ChildRead More

10 Emotion-Coaching Phrases  to Use When Your Child is Upset 9

10 Emotion-Coaching Phrases to Use When Your Child is Upset

10 Emotion-Coaching Phrases to Use When Your Child is UpsetRead More

Five Steps to Calm and Centered Even When Your Child is Out of Control 12

Five Steps to Calm and Centered Even When Your Child is Out of Control

Five Steps to Calm and Centered Even When Your Child is Out of ControlRead More

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handle big emotionsJoin my {free} 5-day email course on handling tantrums and meltdowns:

🧔 Figure out how to handle tantrums and meltdowns without yelling.
🧔 Learn a 2-Step system to build up your child’s emotion regulation skills.
🧔 Create a calm-down space in your home.
🧔 Hold space for your child’s core emotions and be their soft landing — even while changing some of the behaviors around their emotion.
🧔 Learn quick ways to help kids recover from their biggest emotions anywhere!

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Help Kids De-stress

Our kids are living through a time in history that will shape them. We want to help them develop life skills to manage stress, to become resilient, to overcome, to be kind in a sometimes cruel world. Home 4 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. -Bertha CallowayĀ 

Here are some resources to help build up your child’s inner strengths: emotion-regulation, mindfulness, self-energy.

52 Sensory Play-Based Brain Breaks for Kids: Reset and Re-Center 1

52 Sensory Play-Based Brain Breaks for Kids: Reset and Re-Center

Inside: Sensory brain breaks to help kids de-stress, reset, and re-center and also help kids to solidify what they learn. Any kind of activity that immerses kids into their environment is a…

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Picture Books That Teach Kids How to Stop and Think, Handle Emotions, and Be Mindful 5

Picture Books That Teach Kids How to Stop and Think, Handle Emotions, and Be Mindful

11 Ways to Help Kids Re-Center: Strengthen Your Child's Sense of Self, Fix Bad Moods, and Reduce Anxiety

11 Ways to Help Kids Re-Center: Strengthen Your Child’s Sense of Self, Fix Bad Moods, and Reduce Anxiety

How to Help Your Child Turn Negative Self-Talk into Self-Kindness 6

How to Help Your Child Turn Negative Self-Talk into Self-Kindness

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Kind Words From Nurture and Thrive Readers!

Grace

“I’m a pediatrician in CA and LOVE your blog. I’ve been recommending it to parents who come with issues of anxiety or behavior. Just wanted to let you know! Thank you so much for this resource.”

Marissa

“I just found your article about toddler defiance and it has been the most helpful post I’ve come across. I’m a pediatric OT professionally and mom of two boys (3 and 2) personally, and your blog combined just enough evidence-based to help my crazy emotional mom side feel supported and able to acknowledge this part of development instead of worrying what is wrong and how will I survive. Thank you!!!”

Jenny

“Thank you for such an amazing website full of resources that are so insightful and life-changing.”

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