Practical Parenting Articles and Websites

Love and Logic Parenting - offers practical strategies for raising responsible, independent children through empathy, healthy boundaries, and natural consequences. Their website provides helpful articles, books, parenting classes, and other resources for families.

Parenting Today’s Teens — Practical articles and podcasts for navigating the challenges of raising preteens and teens.

Center for Parent and Teen Communication — Focuses on communication, relationships, resilience, independence, boundaries, mistakes, stress, and healthy adolescent development.

CDC Essentials for Parenting Teens — Free, research-based resources specifically for parents of 11–17-year-olds, including emotions, independence, communication, encouragement, and relationships.

HealthyChildren.org (American Academy of Pediatrics) — excellent for both younger children and teens.

Child Mind Institute – Parenting Resources — Articles on raising confident/independent kids, co-regulation, calm parenting, coping skills, rejection, criticism, failure, talking with kids, sleep, gratitude, generosity and much more.

Child Mind Institute – Behavior & Discipline Resources — Great for parents looking for help with tantrums, meltdowns, transitions, sibling conflict, defiance, anger, chores, instructions, self-regulation and positive attention.

Child Mind Institute – Screen Time & Technology — Covers phones, video games, social media, cyberbullying, screen limits, sexting, online stress and when children are ready for social media.

HealthyChildren.org – Helping Children Manage Anxiety — From the American Academy of Pediatrics. This is a good parent-friendly article on recognizing anxiety and helping children manage worry at home and school.

Mental Health Support

NAM Behavioral Health Services — Counseling for issues including anxiety/depression, parenting/family concerns and grief. No insurance?  Limited ability to pay? Some services are available to the community at no cost through grant funding.

Psychology Today – Find a Therapist — Therapist-search directory. Parents can filter by location, insurance, age, concern, specialty, etc. 

Mosaics of Mercy - Help members of the Houston area navigate mental health and substance use recovery resources.