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One Parent’s Story A – Part 2: Observing and Learning as a Parent Rather than Worrying
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- 07/06/2017
Joe was beginning to see how his best efforts to help his daughter and family to have happy times together were actually contributing to a lowering of Chloe’s resilience. This is the next instalment in the story of one parent, Joe, as he worked to figure out how he could be a resource to his…
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Blog Posts
A New Social Media Age Limit Is Coming — Here’s How Parents Can Lead, Not Panic
- Blog
- 26/11/2025
By Jenny Brown | Parent Hope Blog Next month, Australia will introduce a ground-breaking law: a mandatory minimum age of 16 for accounts on certain social media platforms. It comes into effect by 10 December 2025, and parents will not be able to give consent for under-16s to use these platforms. Our E-Safety commissioner provides…
The “I Position”: A Path for Teachers to Communicate Clearly and Reclaim Confidence
- Blog
- 05/08/2025
By Jenny Brown | Parent Hope Blog Classrooms, like families, are emotional places. Children bring their anxieties, resistance, energy, and confusion. Adults bring their values, responsibilities, hopes — and sometimes, their stress and emotional reactivity. In this emotional mix, we are constantly affecting one another, often without realizing it. We’re not just individuals having isolated reactions…
Webinar: Parenting in the Digital World
- Blog
- 03/06/2025
Applying Differentiation-Based Parenting in guiding children’s screen use. Topic: Parenting in the Digital World When: Tuesday 17th June, 2025 (past webinar, recording coming soon to the Parent Hope Podcast) Time: 7 pm Australian EST This webinar will explore: Interesting in what Differentiation-Based Parenting is? Read all about it in our latest blog series.
A New Social Media Age Limit Is Coming — Here’s How Parents Can Lead, Not Panic
- Blog
- 26/11/2025
By Jenny Brown | Parent Hope Blog Next month, Australia will introduce a ground-breaking law: a mandatory minimum age of 16 for accounts on certain social media platforms. It comes into effect by 10 December 2025, and parents will not be able to give consent for under-16s to use these platforms. Our E-Safety commissioner provides…
The “I Position”: A Path for Teachers to Communicate Clearly and Reclaim Confidence
- Blog
- 05/08/2025
By Jenny Brown | Parent Hope Blog Classrooms, like families, are emotional places. Children bring their anxieties, resistance, energy, and confusion. Adults bring their values, responsibilities, hopes — and sometimes, their stress and emotional reactivity. In this emotional mix, we are constantly affecting one another, often without realizing it. We’re not just individuals having isolated reactions…
Webinar: Parenting in the Digital World
- Blog
- 03/06/2025
Applying Differentiation-Based Parenting in guiding children’s screen use. Topic: Parenting in the Digital World When: Tuesday 17th June, 2025 (past webinar, recording coming soon to the Parent Hope Podcast) Time: 7 pm Australian EST This webinar will explore: Interesting in what Differentiation-Based Parenting is? Read all about it in our latest blog series.
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Parenting with Clarity: A Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Their Supporters Who Want to Contribute to Children's Flourishing
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Parenting with Clarity
Parenting with Clarity: A Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Their Supporters Who Want to Contribute to Children's Flourishing
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Confident Parenting:
Restoring your confidence as a parent by making yourself the project and not trying to change your child
Discover how relationships are central to growing in responsibility and maturity.
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Podcast
Respecting Differences, Staying Connected: Navigating Holidays Without Losing YourselfWith Dr. Kathleen Smith
- podcasts
- 03/12/2025
The holidays can bring out our best—and our most anxious—selves. Therapist and author Dr. Kathleen Smith (True to You; Everything Isn’t Terrible) will join Jenny Brown to discuss staying kind and self-defined when those predictable family tensions rise. How can parents handle sensing disapproval, differing values, and “helpful” relatives without losing themselves—or their sense of…
Grandparenting Without the Drama: How the generations can work together, not pull apart
- podcasts
- 03/11/2025
Grandparenting can be a gift—or a point of tension—depending on how generational differences are navigated. In this episode, Jenny Brown speaks with two special guests, Selden Illick and her daughter-in-law Alison Illick, about the subtle and powerful dynamics between grandparents, parents, and children. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, they explore how patterns of anxiety,…
Parenting Beyond Worry: Breaking Cycles & Building Hope this Mental Health Month
- podcasts
- 02/10/2025
As parents, our worries can quietly slip onto our children’s shoulders.But what if there’s another way? This Mental Health Month (in our State: NSW), the Parent Hope Podcast explores how parents can support children’s well-being by first steadying themselves. Jenny Brown, founder and director of the Parent Hope Project, and Lauren Errington, executive Director of…
Respecting Differences, Staying Connected: Navigating Holidays Without Losing YourselfWith Dr. Kathleen Smith
- podcasts
- 03/12/2025
The holidays can bring out our best—and our most anxious—selves. Therapist and author Dr. Kathleen Smith (True to You; Everything Isn’t Terrible) will join Jenny Brown to discuss staying kind and self-defined when those predictable family tensions rise. How can parents handle sensing disapproval, differing values, and “helpful” relatives without losing themselves—or their sense of…
Grandparenting Without the Drama: How the generations can work together, not pull apart
- podcasts
- 03/11/2025
Grandparenting can be a gift—or a point of tension—depending on how generational differences are navigated. In this episode, Jenny Brown speaks with two special guests, Selden Illick and her daughter-in-law Alison Illick, about the subtle and powerful dynamics between grandparents, parents, and children. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, they explore how patterns of anxiety,…
Parenting Beyond Worry: Breaking Cycles & Building Hope this Mental Health Month
- podcasts
- 02/10/2025
As parents, our worries can quietly slip onto our children’s shoulders.But what if there’s another way? This Mental Health Month (in our State: NSW), the Parent Hope Podcast explores how parents can support children’s well-being by first steadying themselves. Jenny Brown, founder and director of the Parent Hope Project, and Lauren Errington, executive Director of…