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Practical Ways to Improve Your Confidence (and Why You Should)

By Eric Ravenscraft — 2019

Self-confidence is just one element in a triad of things that make up our overall “confidence.” Here’s what you can do to boost yours.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids—from Toddlers to Teenagers

How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding and having a mastery over our emotions (aka emotional intelligence)—and helping our children do the same.

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Jennifer S. Miller
2019
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41 - Friday Fix: 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do

As a psychotherapist and a foster parent, I’ve seen firsthand how parenting habits directly affect the way kids think, feel, and behave. I’m sharing how to give up the unhealthy yet common parenting habits that are draining kids of the mental strength they need to reach their greatest potential.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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63 - Friday Fix: 13 Things Strong Kids Do

Kids need mental strength just as much as adults, especially right now. On today’s Friday Fix, I share the 13 Things Strong Kids Do and some strategies you can use to encourage your kids to develop these healthy habits now.

Podcast
The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time.

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Michelle Icard
2025
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change.

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Dr. Laura Markham
2012
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The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions so You and Your Children Can Thrive

Presents compassionate guidelines for divorcing parents on how to manage a divorce and its aftermath while promoting child resiliency and well-being, discussing such topics as the benefits of constructive fighting, handling the legal side of a divorce appropriately, and therapeutic parenting.

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Robert E. Emery
2004
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Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons

Why do we get boys' adolescence so wrong? Here's how to steer them through this silent and confusing passage, by the co-author of the bestselling Care and Keeping of You series and Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys.

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Cara Natterson
2025
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When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids

An urgent and necessary book, when the world feels like a scary place brings solutions to a problem that is only going to get worse—how bad things happening in the world affect our children, and how we can raise engaged and confident kids in spite of them.

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Abigail Gewirtz
2025
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Building Kids’ Resilience and Confidence | Oxford Owl

Teacher and child psychologist Jean Gross shares her tips for helping children believe in themselves, and discusses how you can encourage them to be determined and to enjoy challenges.

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2017
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Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. “We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children.

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Marc Brackett
2020
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