For Parents

Our parenting resources help support effective parenting, including ways to be more attuned and responsive to children’s needs. We also have resources for promoting your well-being, which is the foundation of warm, consistent relationships with children.

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Stress Check: Progressive Muscle Relaxation (8 minutes)

This practice promotes calm and a sense of ease by guiding you to gently engage and release different muscle groups, led by Robyn Long.

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Stress Check: Tune Into Yourself (15 minutes)

This practice helps you tune into yourself, as well as strengthen the mind’s ability for sustained focus by shifting awareness throughout the body, led by Ann Hollar.

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Stress Check: Tune Into Yourself (5 minutes)

This practice helps you tune into yourself, as well as strengthen the mind’s ability for sustained focus by shifting awareness throughout the body, led by Blair Carleton.

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+2 Breathing (5 minutes)

This practice focuses on slowing down your exhalation, which can promote a sense of calm and relaxation, led by Diane Hetrick.

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Tuning into the Senses (7 minutes)

This practice promotes awareness of your sensory experiences, which can be helpful for tuning into the moment, led by Robyn Long.

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Wise Mind Breathing (5 minutes)

This practice helps you connect with Wise Mind, where Emotional Mind and Rational Mind are held in balance, led by Diane Hetrick.

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Making Mindfulness Stick with Kids and Teens

Dr. Christopher Willard provides an overview of mindfulness concepts and multiple examples of practices and strategies for parents and professionals to share with children and teens.

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Be in the Pause Practice (7 minutes)

This guided breathing practice invites you to pause and connect with your internal wisdom, led by Robyn Long.

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Preliminary evaluation of an innovative, brief parenting program designed to promote self-regulation in parents and children

In this study, Dr. Lengua and collaborators conducted preliminary evaluation of a brief parenting program that aims to promote young children’s self-regulation, social–emotional competence, and academic readiness.

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Raising Resilient Children

Dr. Liliana Lengua discusses the critical role parents play in raising resilient children, particularly in families facing limited income and poverty.

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