Parenting Smarts The Diocese of Phoenix

Traveling with your family can be challenging, but it is worth it! Being together sharing new experiences is good for our brains and good for our relationships. Brina Sauers joins MaryRuth to share tips on how to travel well with children. 

Raising children is full of transitions. Jennifer Ellis joins MaryRuth to explore how parents can adjust to change as their children grow up.

Summer is almost here and the kids will get bored. MaryRuth takes a look at how boredom affects brain function and gives us tips on how to deal with boredom.

Parents have a duty to pray for their kids and their prayers are especially powerful. Kathleen Beckman joins MaryRuth to explore spiritual authority including ways to protect and pray for our children. 

Are you an angry parent? Are your children angry? How do we teach our children how to regulate emotions, especially anger? MaryRuth outlines strategies to deal with strong emotions in a healthy way. 

Our God is merciful and just, perfectly merciful and perfectly just. How do we cultivate an understanding of justice that balances mercy and forgiveness in our children? Justice Kathryn King joins MaryRuth to explore how we can communicate these concepts through our parenting.