Reflective Parenting by Curious Neuron

Updated: 04 Jun 2025 • 226 episodes
www.curiousneuron.com

A parenting podcast that doesn't tell you HOW to parent your own child. We teach you how to think during parenting challenges and help you build emotional intelligence skills to lower your stress and help you cope with those challenging emotions that come with parenting. Neuroscientist, Dr. Cindy Hovington can help you parent your child with confidence and feel competent by helping you understand your triggers, recognize and break your emotional patterns and teach you how to model healthy emotional coping skills for your child.  Cindy is the founder and CEO of Curious Neuron, is an internationally recognized emotional well-being resource for parents with their evidence-based educational content being consumed in over 70 countries! She is a leading thought expert in emotion regulation and parental well-being as well as an international speaker on well-being and emotional development in children.  The goal of this podcast is to help parents gain awareness of their emotional triggers, build your confidence as a parent, understand how their past influences behavioural patterns they can stuck in and help them learn how to model healthy emotional coping skills for their children. We do this by discussing the science of emotional intelligence and effective parenting practices.  Join us every Monday for conversations with leading researchers and best selling authors in parental well-being, childhood adversity, attachment, emotional development, stress management and emotion regulation skills. Past guests include Dr. Bruce Perry, Dr. Marc Brackett and best-selling authors Dr. Ramani Durvasula and Stephanie Harrison. Join me and become a Reflective Parent! Subscribe today not to miss next week's episode!  To learn more from Curious Neuron or to join The Reflective Parent Club, visit www.curiousneuron.com. Follow us on Instagram @curious_neuron. 

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Send us a text Hi dear friends,  From the number of you that downloaded our last grounding meditation, it seems like you enjoyed it! I decided to created another one for you, this time it is to help you on a day when you feel like you are failing.  https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/reflective-parenting-by-curious-n

Send us a text with Erica Diamond Those early days of parenthood can feel like survival mode—your routines are gone, your identity feels blurry, and the overwhelm is constant. Between sleepless nights, mental overload, and trying to “do it all,” it’s easy to lose yourself. In this episode, Dr. Cindy Hovington is joined

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Send us a text We often focus on limiting and banning our kids’ screen time—but what if the most effective digital parenting conversations require a completely different approach, one that starts with curiousity, not control? In this episode, Dr. Cindy Hovington is joined by bestselling author Jessica Joelle Alexander

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Send us a text The next time you experience a chaotic moment and need to pause, listen to this 5 min audio to help you regulate.  Let me know if you want more of these and please share it with a friend who needs this! 💬 Want Support in Your Parenting Journey? 👥 Join the Reflective Parent Club Parenting can be overwhe

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Send us a text Hi friends! I have been hearing so many parents tell me that they feel overwhelmed trying to figure out how to balance work and family life. I know this can be stressful so I thought of a different way for us to approach this problem.  What if we asked ourselves "How do I want to design my life?". What d

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Send us a text Happy Mother"s Day! I wanted to post today on Mother"s Day because of the conversations I have been having with moms all week.  It helped me realize that so many of us are powering through motherhood not addressing our needs or communicating them to those around us.  Take 20 min out of your day today to

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