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The Hardest Choice a Parent Can Make

We’ve spent the month on Choice Power. This week it’s the parent’s turn. Dr. Shefali Tsabary turns the mirror on us — introducing the Five F’s of Parenting Reactivity and the gap between the child we imagined and the child actually in front of us. Plus: last chance for the Hare on the Chair Easter Adventure.

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The Skill Every Entrepreneur Teaches Their Kids

Every time your child argues or pushes back, that’s not a problem to shut down — that’s a skill trying to develop. This week, Kwame Christian, CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, teaches us why negotiation isn’t conflict. It’s connection. Plus: a Mood Monster Approved Easter Adventure your family won’t forget.

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Train Your Child's Most Important Muscle

A purple monster who can't stop changing colors. A neuroscience gap that explains everything about your child's worst moments. And a simple question — which Moody Monster showed up today? — that elite athletes already know the answer to.

This week, Raising Empowered Kids introduces Milo, a REK original character built around one of the most overlooked insights in child development: that self-talk shapes emotion, and emotion drives action. The research has existed for decades. The tools, until now, have not.

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The Neighbor We All Need Right Now

The world feels heavy this week. So we're spending time with Fred Rogers — the man who showed up for children every single time things got scary. His message hasn't changed. And this week, it's exactly what we need.

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The Hero Voice Doesn't Wait for Permission

March is Parenting Awareness Month — and this year, we're spending it on one of the most protective things we can give our kids: the belief that their choices matter. It starts earlier than you think.

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The 2-2-2 Belonging Challenge

Belonging isn't something we earn — it's something we create. This week we're borrowing a simple idea from community-builder Radha Agrawal: the 2-2-2 challenge. Two minutes. Two things. Real connection. Plus: a story about how shared meals created the first human communities 25,000 years ago.

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The Hidden Cost of Raising "Good" Kids

We praise kids who are 'so good'—so polite, so helpful, so easy. But what if they're not thriving... they're just quietly running on empty? This week's story about Simone Biles will change how you think about belonging.

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Vulnerability Is the Valentine

What Brené Brown’s research reveals about vulnerability, love, and the quiet ways kids learn whether they’re allowed to stay themselves.

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Belonging Without Disappearing

Michelle Obama’s Princeton moment, Geoffrey Cohen’s belonging research, and a simple line we can use when our kids start shrinking to fit in.

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Why Noticing Changes Everything

What if wisdom begins not with having the right answers, but with noticing what we don’t yet understand? Drawing from an ancient story about Socrates, modern research from psychologist Ellen Langer, and a simple practice families can try this week, this reflection explores how pausing before fixing can quietly strengthen curiosity, connection, and confidence — for both kids and adults.

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