Self awareness
10 articles
How Your Own Upbringing Influences How You Parent
There's a moment most parents have lived through and quietly never told anyone. You're tired, the toddler has done something maddening for the eighth...
Teaching Children to Recognize Their Own Emotions
Your 4-year-old is on the floor screaming about a sock. You ask what they're feeling and they look at you like you've asked them to do calculus. They...
How to Recognize When Your Resources Are Running Low
Parental burnout doesn't arrive with an alarm. The 2018 Parental Burnout Assessment, validated across more than 40 countries, identified the same thre...
How Parents Grow Alongside Their Children
We talk endlessly about child development and almost never about the developmental work happening on the other side of the relationship. Parenting is...
Why Parenthood Intensifies Inner Dialogue
If you've noticed that your internal monologue has become louder and more insistent since becoming a parent, you're not alone. Parenthood creates cond...
How to Identify Your Own Parenting Style
Most parents have a sense of how they parent, but it's often inaccurate. You might think you're authoritative while actually being permissive, or vice...
How to Find Your Parenting Style
Every parent has a style—a collection of approaches, responses, and beliefs that characterize how they parent. But few parents consciously choose thei...
Why Parental Awareness Matters More Than Techniques
The trap most parents fall into is collecting techniques the way you'd collect tools — scripts, methods, frameworks, the next book. The trap doesn't s...
Can You Change Your Parenting Approach? Yes — Here's What the Research Shows
The decision to parent differently from how you were parented — calmer, warmer, less harsh, less anxious, less absent, more attuned, more boundaried,...
Self-Conscious Emotions: Pride, Shame, and Embarrassment After Age One
A 14-month-old who stacks two blocks and immediately turns to look at you with their arms up and a giant grin is doing something genuinely new in thei...