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Parenting Reflections: How I Navigated a Tough Dinner Meltdown with My Sensitive Child (and Still Managed to Have a Good Time!)

5 Ways to NOT Raise An Entitled Kid (& How to Build REAL Resilience in Your Sensitive Child Instead!)

Parenting Reflections: What My 7-Year-Old’s Insights After a Tough Soccer Practice Reminds Us About Building Confidence in Sensitive Kids

3 Tips for Smoother School Drop-Offs with Your Sensitive Child (Hint: It All Starts With the Right Mindset!)

Parenting Reflections: A Typical Day Parenting My 3 Sensitive Kids – a BTS Look at What Actually Matters (& Where You Can Save Your Energy!)

How to Communicate Effectively with Your Sensitive Child’s Teacher for a Successful School Year with Jess Hammond -- Part 2

Parenting Reflections: How I Built Kindergarten Readiness in my Sensitive Kids (Hint: It Wasn’t Through Flashcards or Letter Sounds!)

How to Communicate Effectively with Your Sensitive Child’s Teacher for a Successful School Year with Jess Hammond -- Part 1

Parenting Reflections: Amanda’s Story: How She Stopped Her Sensitive Child’s Aggressive Behaviors & Cultivated Actual Calm in Just 4 Weeks

Mornings Made Easy: 5 Secrets for a Calm Start with Your Sensitive Child (Plus a Bonus Tip!)

Parenting Reflections: The Bold Move That Eased My Sensitive Child’s School Anxiety (& Helped Him Go the Following Day With No Issue!)

When Your Child Says ‘I’m Not Going!’: How to Support School Refusal in Sensitive Kids

Parenting Reflections: My Top 10 Parenting Revelations: Lessons from a Decade of Motherhood

Navigating Back-to-School Anxiety: 5 Practical & Actionable Tips for Sensitive Kids

Parenting Reflections: Real Talk with My Husband on Parenting Sensitive Kids, Balancing the Mental Load, & How Marathon Training Prepared Us for Paren...

100 Episodes of Raising Resilient, Sensitive Kids: Our Most Downloaded Parenting Advice

Parenting Reflections: Connection Over Correction: My Weekend Parenting Win (Without A Power Struggle!)

Screens & Sensitive Kids Part 2: 5 Tips for Managing After-Screen Meltdowns

Aida’s Parenting Transformation Story: From Disconnected & Overwhelmed to Empowered & Confident in Just 8 Weeks

Screens & Sensitive Kids Part 1: 5 Tips to Help You Set Your Child Up for Screen Success in 2024

Parenting Reflections: Parenting Without Punishments: How It Actually Looks in Real Life (& Why It’s So Important for Sensitive Kids!)

“What if My Co-Parent Isn’t On Board?”: How to Navigate Different Parenting Styles Through a Divorce (& Even If You’re Still Together!)

Parenting Reflections: My #1 Ultimate Hack for Encouraging More Independent Play

Understanding Sibling Dynamics: 3 Game-Changing Insights for Parents of Highly Sensitive Children

Parenting Reflections: My Story of Navigating a Meltdown in Real Life (Even the Messy Parts!)

Addressing Unkind Words to Friends: A Listener’s Question About Highly Sensitive Kids

Parenting Reflections: Why Fun Outings Can Lead to Stressful Evenings with Highly Sensitive Kids (+ a New Resource!)

3 Tips for Managing After School Moods (& Reconnecting With Your Highly Sensitive Child!)

Parenting Reflections: From Chaos to Peace: Shilpa’s Transformation Story

3 (Totally Normal!) Thoughts You Might Be Afraid to Share Out Loud as a Parent of a Highly Sensitive Child

How We Conquered Disney with Highly Sensitive Kids (& Had the BEST Time!)

The Power of Rough & Tumble Play: Nurturing Resilience in Sensitive Kids

Parenting Reflections: Discovering Your Own Sensitivity as a Parent of a Highly Sensitive Child (& How to Embrace It!)

Navigating Public Meltdowns With Your Highly Sensitive Child (& a Giveaway!)

Parenting Reflections: Breaking the Cycle: Confronting the Role of the ‘Default Parent’

Rethinking Child Therapy: 5 Reasons Why It May Not Be the Best Approach for Highly Sensitive Children

Parenting Reflections: How to Rediscover Yourself with Solo Travel (& 3 Key Benefits for Parents!)

How to Navigate Sibling Jealousy During Birthdays (& 3 Strategies to Support Your Highly Sensitive Child!)

Kelsey & Cody’s Story: How a Family Turned Chaos, Meltdowns & Prior Medical Trauma Into a Peaceful Home Life

How to Stop Walking on Eggshells When Saying “No” to Your Highly Sensitive Child (And the 3 Alternatives You Can Do Instead!)

Parenting Reflections: How to Decode Your Highly Sensitive Child’s Meltdowns & Get to the Root Cause of Huge Reactions to Trivial Triggers

Navigating Perfectionism in Highly Sensitive Children: 3 Invaluable Tips for How to Respond to Your Child’s “I Want to be Perfect” Voice

Parenting Reflections: Navigating Parental Anger: Here’s My Simple but Powerful Tool to Regulate After Losing Your Cool

Does Your Highly Sensitive Child Worry Constantly? Why Reassuring Your Anxious Child Is the Worst Thing You Can Do (& What to do Instead to Master Anx...

Parenting Reflections: “Why Are You Being So Mean?!”: How to Get Curious About Even the Most Challenging Behaviors

Trying to Get Your Child to “Calm Down” or “Stop Overreacting”? Here’s Why That’s Actually Making the Meltdowns Worse

Parenting Reflections: Are Your Kids Fighting Constantly? My #1 Tool for Diffusing Sibling Conflict (Without Going Into Referee Mode!)

“Go Away, Mommy!”: How to Respond Effectively When Your Highly Sensitive Child Pushes You Away When They Need You Most

Natasha’s Story: How An Overwhelmed Mom Helped Her Highly Sensitive 4-Year-Old Ditch Meltdowns and Aggressive Behaviors & Get Her “Spark” Back

Constantly Yelling at Your Child? Why Trying to ’Stay Calm” Is Setting You Up to Fail (& What to Focus on Instead!)

Parenting Reflections: ’Go Away and Die, Mommy!’: How to Respond to Mean Words from Your Highly Sensitive Child (Without Losing Your Cool!)

Raising a Strong-Willed, Anxious, or Perfectionistic Kid? What These 3 Kids Have in Common (& How to Understand Your Child Better!)

Parenting Reflections: How to Respond When Your Highly Sensitive Child’s Feelings Don’t Make Logical Sense

Why Your Highly Sensitive Child’s Sensitivity is Actually Their Superpower

Parenting Reflections: How to Handle Birthday Meltdowns with Your Highly Sensitive Child

The #1 Reason Your Highly Sensitive Child Has Meltdowns

Parenting Reflections: How to Regroup When You’ve Had a Rough Parenting Day (Yelling, Losing Your Cool, and Feeling Shame)

Managing Separation Anxiety: Expert Tips for When Your Highly Sensitive Child Won’t Let You Leave

Parenting Reflections: How to Handle it When Your Child Says “I’m a Bad Kid”

5 Not-So-Obvious Signs Your Child is Highly Sensitive

Why I’m Taking a Short Break from Podcasting (& Why You Should Take a Break from Something Too!)

Practical Tips to Make Time for Exercise as a Busy Parent with Lauren Chante

How to Know if Your Child is Kindergarten Ready (& Why “Kindergarten Readiness” is Probably Not What You Think It Is!)

4 Reasons You Should Let Your Child be Bored (& How to Deal With Boredom)

4 Tips to Encourage Your Child to Play Independently More Often (& For Longer!)

Traveling with Kids: 5 Tips to Make Your Next Family Trip Less Stressful

The Benefits of Unstructured Outdoor Play (& How to Get Your Child Outside!) with Allana Robinson

Water Safety for Kids: 5 Tips to Keep Your Child Safe (& Why This Topic Is So Important to Me!)

How to Get Your Child to Talk to You (Even About the Hard Stuff!)

What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Child’s Friend

How to Find Balance in Parenting, Life & Hormones with Dr. Brooke Kalanick

How to Introduce Your Baby / Child to a New Pet: 4 Tips for a Smooth Transition

The #1 Negative Thought Pattern that Keeps Parents Feeling Stuck & Disconnected

4 Practical Ways to Manage Parenting Stress with Elizabeth Andreyevskiy

How to Respond to Aggressive Behavior in Older Kids

Connecting with “Big Kids”: How to Build & Sustain Healthy Relationships with Older Kids, Tweens & Teens

Responding to Fears of the Dark & Other Common Bedtime Struggles

Beyond Sleep Training or Co-Sleeping Forever: Finding the Baby Sleep Middle Ground with Rachael Shepherd-Ohta

Gentle Parenting with Babies: 5 Tips to Build Emotion Regulation from the Start

Welcoming a New Baby: 6 Tips to Help Your Older Child Adjust to Their New Sibling

“How Do I Get My Partner On Board with Gentle Parenting?” with Bryana Kappadakunnel

”Does Gentle Parenting Actually Work?” Responding to a Skeptical Partner

Why Play is Your Child’s Most Important Job (& How it Supports Healthy Child Development!)

Intuitive Eating for Kids: How to Help Picky Eaters & Heal Food Trauma with Bekah Groop

3 Invaluable Parenting Truths I’ve Learned Through Creating a Parenting Podcast (One Year Anniversary Episode!)

“My Child Won’t Share Her Toys on Play Dates”: Responding to Challenging Behaviors After a New Sibling is Born

Do Kids Actually Need Play Dates & Preschool? An Overview of Social Development for Toddlers Through Teens

“Why Is My Child’s Behavior Good at School and Bad at Home?!”: Unpacking This Common Dynamic

How to Stop Sibling Teasing (& Why It Happens in the First Place)

How to Get Kids to Clean Up: Pro Tips to Help You Teach This Important Skill (Without All the Stress!)

Parenting With Trauma: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Reparent Yourself While You Simultaneously Raise Your Own Child

Parents, Stop Doing These 3 Things Today to Simplify Your Parenting & Feel More JOY!

Why You Should Forget the New Year’s Resolutions & Do This ONE Thing Instead for Lighter, More Joyful Parenting in 2023!

From Toddler Tantrums to Big Kid Struggles: How to Manage Holiday Meltdowns Like a Pro

How to Deal When Someone Criticizes Your Parenting (& Navigating Holiday Gatherings With People Who Aren’t Into Respectful / Gentle Parenting)

“Should I Lie to My Kid About Santa Claus?”: Answers to Your Santa Questions (& How to Do the Santa Thing Respectfully!)

Why the Holidays Are So Stressful for Parents (& 6 Tips to Reclaim Your Joy & Stress Less This Holiday Season!)

”Am I Raising An Ungrateful Child?!”: How to Get Your Child to Say “Thank You” (Without Forcing It!)

Self-Care for Parents: Why It’s Necessary & How to Make It Happen

Why I Love Parenting Without Punishments: 3 Reasons to Stop Punishing Your Child