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Parenting Process for Your Child's Success

Explore a step by step process for dealing with simple and challenging parenting topics to build critical life skills and improve your relationship with your child.

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A one-page printable graphic of a step by step process to build critical life skills and improve your relationship with your child.

In this episode, we have a conversation about a step-by-step process parents or someone in a parenting role can follow for dealing with simple and challenging parenting topics. The process can help to build critical life skills and improve your relationship with your child.

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Calm Down Strategies for Parents and Children

Developing healthy ways to calm down gives parents and children tools to manage feelings in a healthy way, strengthens relationships, and helps you solve problems together.

Feelings Chart

Teach your child feeling words to help in their emotional growth now and through their teen years.

Infant Crying

Learn about infant crying and how to develop a plan for staying calm when your infant cries and get guidance about how to ensure others who help care for your infant also have a plan.

Intentional Communication

Learn how to communicate in a purposeful way with your child to support and enhance your relationship.

What Do I Do When Important People in My Life Have Different Ideas About Parenting My Child?

Learn how to navigate conversations when important people in your life have different ideas on how to parent your child.

Navigating High Conflict With Important People in Your Child’s Life

Learn about actions you can take to manage high conflict situations.

In this episode, we talk about intentional communication. Intentional communication is a way of communicating that deliberately fosters social and emotional skill development. It supports and enhances the relationship between parents and their child.

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Intentional Ways to Grow a Healthy Parenting Relationship

Discover ways to promote a healthy parenting relationship with your child.

In this conversation, we talk about our relationships with our children. Joined by Dr. Shannon Wanless, an Applied Developmental Psychologist and the Director for the Office of Child Development at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, we learn intentional ways we can grow a healthy relationship that can be a foundation for our children’s success.

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Navigating High Conflict With Important People in Your Child’s Life

Learn about actions you can take to manage high conflict situations.

What Do I Do When Important People in My Life Have Different Ideas About Parenting My Child?

Learn how to navigate conversations when important people in your life have different ideas on how to parent your child.

Developmental Screenings

Learn about developmental screenings for your child including: what they are, why they are important, when and where they take place, and how they can support your child’s development.

Prevent Substance Use at Every Age

Learn about things you can do with your child at every age to prevent substance use.

Social and Emotional Development

Learn the importance of developing social and emotional skills for your child’s success throughout life.

In this conversation, we talk about social and emotional development. We are joined by Maurice Elias, Ph.D., one of the pioneers of social and emotional development, director of the Rutgers University Social-Emotional Development Lab, and author of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting. We discuss the importance of social and emotional development for a child’s success.

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In this episode, we talk about some of the conversations we should be having with our children about alcohol and drugs and get specific ideas about what those conversations could sound like.

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Healthy Risk Taking

Learn how to support healthy risk taking and help your child avoid taking unhealthy risks.

Is My Child Drinking? What Do I Do?

Explore the signs and symptoms of alcohol use, ways to talk with your child about concerns, and options you have for getting your child help.

Is My Child Using Drugs? What Do I Do?

Explore the signs and symptoms of drug use, ways to talk with your child about concerns, and options you have for getting your child help.

Marijuana and the Teenage Brain

Discover the consequences of marijuana use in adolescents, the impact of marijuana on the developing teenage brain, and your role as a parent in preventing marijuana use.

Marijuana: What Does the Law Say

Understand the laws about marijuana in Montana and learn about scenarios that you, as a parent, might encounter.

Prescription Pain Medication

Understand the misuse of prescription pain medication, the risks associated with misuse, and what you can do to prevent it.

Prevent Substance Use at Every Age

Learn about things you can do with your child at every age to prevent substance use.

Underage Drinking: What Does the Law Say?

Understand the underage drinking laws in Montana and learn about scenarios that you, as a parent, might encounter.

Why Teens Shouldn't Drink Alcohol

Gain insight into the consequences of alcohol use, reasons to delay, and specific strategies you can implement to avoid underage drinking.

Why Teens Shouldn't Use Marijuana

Gain insight into the consequences of marijuana use, reasons it’s important for teens to not use marijuana, and specific strategies you can implement to help your teen avoid marijuana.

Guidance and Discipline for Skill Building

Learn how your discipline practices can build your child’s skills.

In this episode, we have a conversation about how providing guidance with discipline can grow skills and improve our relationships with our children. We are joined by Jennifer Miller, author of the book, Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence In Ourselves and Our Kids — From Toddlers to Teenagers.

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Logical Consequences

Learn how your discipline practices can build your child’s skills.

Deciding to Become a Foster Parent?

Answer questions to help you decide if becoming a foster parent is right for you and whether now is the right time.

Preparing for a Child in Foster Care

Discover tips and suggestions to prepare yourself and others for a child in foster care to join your family before they arrive.

The First 24 Hours, Week, and Six Weeks of a Child in Foster Care Joining Your Family

Gain insight and strategies to successfully navigate the first 24 hours, first week, and the first six weeks of having a child in foster care joining your family.

How to Identify and Select a Quality Child Care Provider

Learn how to identify and select a quality child care provider and how to engage your child in the transition.

Child Trauma

Learn about child trauma and what actions you can take to support your child after they have experienced a traumatic event.