Check out our curated list of resources.
You can find countless websites, blogs, and social media accounts offering information and advice about parenting and mental health. Below you’ll see the resources we’ve found most helpful on our parenting journey. We hope you see value in them too.
Websites & Instagram Accounts
Parenting Support
Mia Wisinski is a mom, stepmom, and theatre educator with a goal of helping parents enjoy play through easy, kid-friendly activities aimed at connection.
Dr. Lisa Damour’s site offers research-backed guidance for parents and caregivers raising tweens and teens. You’ll find practical advice, articles, talks, and tools focused on adolescent development, anxiety, stress, friendships, and family relationships.
Whether you’re wondering how to handle a specific challenge, just figuring out your child-raising approach, or ready to tear your hair out, Aha! Parenting is ready to help.
Good Inside gives parents practical, compassionate support for everyday challenges with kids from early childhood through the teen years. The site offers expert guidance, scripts, workshops, and tools that help parents set boundaries while staying deeply connected.
Child Mind Institute is a nonprofit focused on transforming children’s mental health through science, education, and care. The site offers trustworthy information for families on anxiety, ADHD, learning challenges, behavior, and many other child and teen mental health topics.
FAN offers a wide range of free programs and speaker events that bring parents, educators, and community members together around timely topics. It’s a strong local resource for learning, reflection, and family support through thoughtful conversation.
HealthyChildren.org is the American Academy of Pediatrics’ parenting site, offering expert-reviewed advice for raising children from infancy through young adulthood. Families can find practical, science-based guidance on health, development, behavior, emotions, and everyday parenting concerns.
Jon Fogel is a parenting educator and Chicago area pastor who posts about brain-based ways to take the stress out of parenting.
Kristina Kuzmic, mental health advocate and author, has been down a hard road, shares her story authentically, and says the hard things out loud.
J. Milburn- Mom of 3 & Parenting Mentor shares powerful memes, blogs, workshops and activities for parents.
You will learn to become more authentic and empathic and focus on the vital relationship between you and your child.
Resilience, Failure, and Growth
Let Grow encourages adults to step back so kids can build confidence, independence, and real-world problem-solving skills. The site shares practical ideas, school initiatives, and family-friendly tools that support resilience through free play and age-appropriate responsibility.
Will Elliott says he was an unmotivated 15-year-old and is now a certified life coach, helping teens and tweens become unstoppable from the inside out.
This children’s book series teaches resilience and emotional health by helping kids learn how to define their worth internally based on their character & effort; how to follow their heart and find courage in scary moments; how to rise again after failure; and how to have empathy for individuals from different backgrounds.
Anxiety and Stress Management
GoZen! creates online social and emotional learning programs for kids ages 5-15 and their parents. Their mission is to teach kids skills to transform stress, anxiety, worry, anger, perfectionism, negativity, and social worry into POWER.
Emotional Regulation, Big Feelings, and Self-Acceptance
NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, offering education, support, advocacy, and public awareness. Its site is a strong starting point for families looking for reliable mental health information and community-based support.
Dr. Nicole LePera invites you on a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical, and spiritual health that equips followers with the tools necessary to heal themselves.
Eating Disorders and Body Image
F.E.A.S.T. offers support, education, and empowerment to families of people affected by eating disorders.
The Academy for Eating Disorders is a global professional organization focused on advancing eating disorder prevention, education, treatment, and research. Its site is especially useful for connecting families and professionals to credible information in the field.
NEDA provides information, awareness, and support for people affected by eating disorders. The site includes education about warning signs, recovery, treatment, and ways families can better understand and respond to these serious illnesses.
Digital Wellness
AAP’s site provides evidence-based strategies, tools, and training for parents and caregivers to promote safe, healthy media use among children and adolescents.
Free the Anxious Generation is a movement inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s work that helps families and communities push back on phone-based childhood. The site offers practical action steps around delaying smartphones and social media, creating phone-free schools, and restoring more real-world play, independence, and connection.
Wait Until 8th helps parents work together to delay giving kids smartphones until at least the end of 8th grade. The site offers a community pledge, practical guidance, and tools for reducing pressure around early smartphone use.
Common Sense Media helps families make smarter choices about media, technology, and digital life. The site offers age-based reviews, research, and practical advice on everything from movies and apps to AI, screen time, and online safety.
Healthy Gamer offers mental health content, coaching, and community designed for the realities of modern online life. It can be especially useful for teens and young adults dealing with stress, motivation, relationships, screen habits, and emotional well-being.
Snapchat’s Family Safety Hub helps parents better understand how the app works and how to support safer use. It includes guidance on teen protections, family tools, privacy settings, and ways to start conversations about digital safety.
Ash Brandin is a teacher who offers tips to manage screens and behavior to benefit the whole family.
ADHD and Executive Functioning
Child Mind Institute is a nonprofit focused on transforming children’s mental health through science, education, and care. The site offers trustworthy information for families on anxiety, ADHD, learning challenges, behavior, and many other child and teen mental health topics.
Understood provides free, expert-vetted resources for people with learning and thinking differences such as ADHD and dyslexia. The site helps parents, educators, and young people better understand challenges, build skills, and find support at school and beyond.
Mary Van Geffen calls herself a Parenting Coach for Spicy Ones. She’s a quirky person who specializes in parenting neurodivergent (defiant) children and also offers classes.
College Transition and Planning
If you are thinking, worrying, or just fretting about what it will be like when some or all of your kids call another place home (even if it is just their grimy dorm room) then this conversation is for you.
Harlan Cohen shares direct, reassuring advice for teens, college students, and parents navigating big transitions. His site is especially helpful for college readiness, independence, rejection, friendship, and getting more comfortable with the uncomfortable.
LGBTQ+ Support
The Trevor Project provides crisis support, information, and resources for LGBTQ+ young people. It is a vital resource for youth and families seeking affirming mental health support, suicide prevention help, and guidance around identity and safety.
Trauma and Grief
Lauren, a Certified Trauma Informed Coach, works with women to help them reclaim their bodies, no matter what they’ve been through, no matter who has hurt them, and no matter how hard they’ve been on themselves.
Gratitude and Mindfulness
Positively Present is dedicated to positive personal development through inspirational words and vibrant, colorful content. On the site, you’ll find advice for dealing with life’s challenges, inspiration for staying positive even when it’s difficult (it’s not always easy, but I’m here to help!), and resources for staying positive and present as much as possible.
Megan Roxanne, author of “How to Stop Breaking Your Own Heart”, shares quotes that will help you think and reset.
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Social Anxiety and School Refusal
School Avoidance Alliance helps families and schools understand why a student may be struggling to attend school and what to do next. The site offers education, tools, and support aimed at getting students back to learning with compassion and structure.