“When parents actively listen to their children and validate their feelings, it builds trust and strengthens the child’s emotional resilience.”
– Dr. Emily Collins
Parenting is a hard gig—the hardest, actually. At any given moment, you’re just trying to get through the day, ensure everyone is safe and fed and that your sanity remains mostly intact by bedtime. And yet, in the chaos of day-to-day life, our purpose is so much bigger than just surviving the logistics of soccer practice, ballet recitals, geometry homework, and driver’s ed. Our ultimate job is to prepare these beautiful and often exasperating humans we’re committed to for the world without us. Our job is to prepare them to care for themselves when we can’t or shouldn’t step in on their behalf. To ready them to face challenges and even one day manage the chaos of their own family.
Equipping children with the right tools to face life’s obstacles ensures their well-being and success and empowers them to
