Holiday gatherings can feel joyful and overwhelming at the same time, and this episode will help you walk in with clarity, calm, and a strong foundation of confident parenting. When kids are navigating new environments, loud relatives, unpredictable routines, and big emotions, they need support with child emotion regulation. With the right positive parenting tips, your entire experience at holiday gatherings can feel smoother and more connected.

In this conversation, I share the approach I use in my own home to prepare my kids for holiday gatherings. You will learn how to strengthen child emotion regulation, how to stay anchored in confident parenting, and how to use simple positive parenting tips to reduce stress for everyone involved. These strategies help you anticipate challenges, understand what your child needs, and protect your own emotional well-being so you can truly enjoy these moments.

Here is what we will cover

• How to prepare your child before holiday gatherings so they enter with stronger child emotion regulation and fewer unexpected reactions

• What to say to relatives who do not understand your positive parenting tips, and how those conversations strengthen your confident parenting

• How to build a calm-down kit that supports child emotion regulation even in unfamiliar settings

• What to do when you feel like the overwhelmed parent, and how reconnecting to confident parenting helps you regulate in the moment

• How practicing positive parenting tips ahead of time makes holiday gatherings more peaceful for the whole family

You deserve to approach this season with steady confidence. Your child deserves the gift of child emotion regulation in environments that challenge them. These positive parenting tips will help you step into your holiday gatherings with more peace and more confident parenting.

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If you have ever wondered why big feelings seem to explode out of nowhere, this episode on emotional literacy is going to feel like a deep breath. I share a very real moment where I lost my cool with my kids and how understanding emotional literacy and identifying feelings could have prevented that blow-up. When we are teaching kids emotions early and model this ourselves, we reduce the overwhelm that leads to those out-of-control moments and help our kids grow into calmer, more grounded humans.

In this episode, I walk you through how I use emotional literacy in my own parenting and why it is the most powerful antidote for any overwhelmed parent. We also talk about how to stop yelling by understanding what is happening inside your own brain and body, and how identifying feelings is the foundation of teaching kids emotions that truly stick.

In this episode, we explore:

• The moment I knew I needed better emotional literacy and how that changed the way I respond to stress

• Why teaching kids emotions matters long before you expect it to work, and how it prevents future blow-ups

• The real reason an overwhelmed parent snaps and what identifying feelings can reveal about what is happening underneath

• A simple framework for how to stop yelling by using compassion and connection instead of pressure and perfectionism

• Why emotional literacy grows stronger when we model our own mistakes and repair afterward

Listen to this episode to learn how to build emotional literacy, support your child in identifying feelings, and reduce the overwhelm that leads to yelling. This is where calmer homes and fewer emotional blow-ups begin.

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If you are trying to prepare for parenthood and already feel like an overwhelmed parent, this episode will help you breathe again. I sit down with Dr. Kailey Buller to talk honestly about what it feels like to bring a newborn home, why even the most educated parents feel unsure, and how simple first-time parenting tips can help you feel more grounded. We cut through the noise of conflicting advice and share the kind of evidence-based parenting guidance that brings clarity back into the chaos. If you want real advice on parenting from a doctor who has delivered hundreds of babies and raised two of her own, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why feeling like an overwhelmed parent is often a sign that you are trying to prepare for parenthood with care, not a sign that you are failing.

• How Dr. Buller uses her experience to offer first-time parenting tips that make room for flexibility instead of perfection.

• The surprising ways advice on parenting can go wrong when you take it at face value, and how evidence-based parenting helps you filter out the noise.

• What new parents should know about changing medical guidance and how to stay confident while you prepare for parenthood.

• How to keep going when you feel unsure, even after reading books, taking classes, or scrolling endlessly for first-time parenting tips.

If you have ever felt like an overwhelmed parent, this episode will help you feel understood, supported, and far more capable than you think. Listen to the full episode to hear Dr. Kailey Buller’s three powerful pieces of advice on parenting and learn how evidence-based parenting can guide you as you prepare for parenthood.

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