Your children are watching how you navigate uncertainty — not whether you struggle, but how you move through it. Bren M. Chasse, LMFT, guides parents on the ways in which children learn resilience from watching how you carry hard things and provides six practical ways to support your child through uncertain times.

Spanking teaches compliance, not connection. Bren M. Chasse, LMFT unpacks why physical discipline undermines the lesson you're teaching, and four alternatives that build connection.

School avoidance and school refusal are more common than many parents realize, often signaling underlying anxiety rather than defiance. Bren M. Chasse, LMFT breaks down the causes, the signs to watch for at home, and practical, compassionate strategies to help your child feel safe returning to the classroom.

Most screen time guidance comes from one discipline or the other – neither addressing the gap between them. This article is different. Bren M. Chasse, LMFT, who specializes in working with children and families, has collaborated with Munya Kanaventi, a chief information security executive, to build age-by-age guidelines grounded in both what developing brains can handle and what dangers wait on the other side of the screen. From a cybersecurity standpoint, children are high-value, low-defense targets — which makes striking this balance harder than it looks: granting the independence a child's development requires, while protecting them from risks only time and experience can teach them to see.