The Blissful Parenting Podcast

As a new teacher Kailey Leftko was grateful to find strategies for mindfulness, stress-relief, and emotional regulation for herself. And she quickly realized her students could benefit from them too. But it turns out that the methods for teaching mindfulness practices to children is not the same as for adults. Over a period of trial and error Kailey was able to find the best ways to bring these strategies to kids...

How do we get our kids to read (and to like reading)? That's a question for so many parents, especially as technology and screens become more ubiquitous. Patrick Carman discovered that a great stepping stone to reading is listening to stories. He developed a podcast for young kids to listen to stories, get their imaginations firing, and develop those important parts of their brains...

The Moms On Call are former pediatric nurses who have spent years building up a resource library for parents. They deliver rapid-fire advice that will have you thinking, "I'm really not alone in this...

This powerful interview will change the way you look at disciplining your children. It's challenging to know what to do when our children are falling apart or we're on our last nerve especially when we want to be calm, compassionate, and peaceful parents. Today on the podcast Katherine Sellery has some perspective shifts that can help us see discipline and managing challenging behaviors in a whole new way...

As a child psychologist Krysten Taprell noticed that a lot of parents were coming to her for help with nightmares. Not night terrors, just the normal nightmares we all get from time to time. For kids nightmares are such a common experience and it seemed a shame to her that they had to go to a doctor for something that should could help them fix on their own...

Andrea Yi went from engineer to stay at home mom to four boys. It wasn't long before she was looking for ways to keep them occupied with educational activities. The key? They had to be super simple. So simple that she wasn't going to do anything she didn't already have ingredients for in her house...

It turns out that we often incorrectly estimate our children's abilities and what they are ready for. Devon Kuntzman has found that most parents underestimate what their child is capable of physically while overestimating what they are capable of emotionally. She has some great tips on how to tell what your child is ready to handle and how to guide them towards being able to regulate themselves and make good choices...

Vanessa Broer never planned to be a mother. Never wanted to be a mother. So when she became pregnant, she was devastated. But she took the time to work through those feelings and to rebuild her sense of self. She continued her journey of self discovery through motherhood itself and has brought her hard-won wisdom to us on the podcast today. Vanessa works high performers to help them thrive. Most high performers only focus on success...

Child abuse is one of the scariest possibilities a parent can face. Especially when we know the stats that our children are most likely to be abused by people they know, adults that we trust. Kristen Rae Ray survived it and with a good therapist, supportive spouse, and powerful insight she is sharing ways that we can empower our kids while also preventing them from living in fear. Kristin is many things...

If you're usually a calm and reasonable person, it can be very confusing when that calm vanishes the moment your child frustrates you. At first we think, if my child would just stop doing that I would be fine. But the truth is there's an underlying fear your child's behavior is triggering and it usually comes from a trauma in your own childhood. Maybe not a huge trauma, maybe a small way that you learned to set aside your needs...