Practical tools for healthy classrooms.

SOS Help for Parents

Lynn Clark's companion to SOS Help for Emotions, aimed at ordinary daily friction rather than at crisis. Specific and teachable responses to common behaviour problems, written plainly enough to hand straight to a parent.

Kids Talk: Feelings

Sixty-four seconds of children describing what a feeling actually feels like, in their own words. Short enough to open a morning meeting or lesson and concrete enough to start a real conversation the very moment it ends.

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Screen Time and Children: How to Guide Your Child

This parent-friendly article moves beyond a simple time limit to address content quality, context, family rules, safety, co-viewing, and adult modeling. It offers concrete prompts caregivers can adapt as children mature.

Reset Your Child’s Brain

Victoria Dunckley outlines a structured break from interactive screens, including preparation, monitoring, and reintroduction. The companion videos support families considering how screen habits may affect behavior.

Millie and Her Tangled Thoughts

“No one ever plays with me.” Kids say things like this constantly — and they believe them. Millie hands them a three-step habit for untangling it, and hands the adult reading aloud a plain-English CBT primer in the back.

Kidlicious

A plant-based cookbook that treats children as the audience rather than an obstacle. Written by a mother and daughter, with recipes simple enough that kids can take a real part in making them instead of just eating them.

How to Help Kids Work on Emotional Intelligence

A short news segment that makes the case for emotional intelligence without the vocabulary of a training session. Useful for the parent who would never open a book on the subject but will happily watch two minutes on it.

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport asks readers to define what technology should serve, pause optional tools, rebuild meaningful offline activities, and reintroduce only the technologies that strongly support their chosen values.

Brighten Up Breakfast

Erica Nedley’s breakfast collection helps families and educators explore planning, ingredients, preparation, and variety. Its recipes turn the morning meal into practical learning about self-care and kitchen skills.

Cognitive Distortions for Kids: Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)

Automatic Negative Thoughts get a memorable nickname and a visual that children genuinely remember. Under five minutes, and it pairs almost exactly with the catch-check-change language of Millie and Her Tangled Thoughts.

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt argues that phone-based childhood may be contributing to adolescent mental-health concerns. The book and companion interviews explore evidence, collective norms, independence, sleep, and play.

Give Them Something Better

A plant-based family cookbook organised around the meals families already ask for, rather than around ingredients they have never bought. Written for the household making a genuine dietary change without a nightly fight.

4 Science-Backed Tips for Parents on Kids’ Social Media Use

Mitch Prinstein of the American Psychological Association condenses the research on adolescent social media habits into four things parents can actually do. Short, well sourced, and free of the usual moral panic framing.

Telling Yourself the Truth

William Backus and Marie Chapian connect self-talk with emotions and behavior through Misbelief Therapy. Readers identify recurring thoughts, test them for truth and exaggeration, and practice biblical alternatives.

The Oh She Glows Cookbook

Angela Liddon pairs colorful photography with approachable vegan recipes. Families and educators can practice planning, measuring, substitution, food safety, and reflection while preparing satisfying meals together.

Developing Emotional Intelligence

Three and a half minutes covering what emotional intelligence is composed of and which specific habits build each part. Best used to get a whole staff room working from one shared definition before any deeper discussion.

Depression: The Way Out

Neil Nedley organizes depression education around physical, psychological, lifestyle, social, and spiritual factors. A companion introductory video supports discussion while emphasizing qualified clinical care.

The Revive Cafe Cookbooks (Vols. 1–8)

Seven volumes of plain plant-based cafe food from Jeremy Dixon, developed in a working kitchen rather than a test kitchen. Short ingredient lists, quick methods, and dishes that hold up for people who are not vegetarian.

Why EQ Learning is Magic for Kids

Under three minutes arguing that emotional skills belong inside childhood education. Pitched squarely at parents and community audiences, which makes it a better opener for a sceptical room than anything longer would be.

SOS Help for Emotions

Lynn Clark uses the ABC model to show how beliefs and self-talk influence emotions and behavior. Through examples and worksheets, readers practice challenging extreme thoughts and choosing more realistic responses.

How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

Lael Stone's TEDx talk makes an uncomfortable and useful case: children learn emotional regulation from how the adults around them handle their own distress. Twelve minutes, and it lands harder than a list of techniques.

Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier

Robert Emmons ran the studies that made gratitude a serious research subject rather than a greeting-card sentiment. This is the accessible version of that work: what the evidence shows, and what a real practice involves.

The Lost Art of Thinking

Neil Nedley explores how interpretations and repeated thought patterns influence emotions and actions. Two companion Clearing the Fog videos extend the discussion with practical education about depression.