Be the Best Parent You Can Be
Parenting can be difficult. When you parent using insights from neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, it becomes easier to be a caring and connected parent.
Get the Guide
It's free!
Step 1
Download the Caring & Connected Parenting Guide here.
Step 2
Read the 5 to 7 pages that correspond to your child's age and review often.
Step 3
Use what you've learned to be a caring and connected parent!
What Feelings Are You Having About Parenting?
You Feel Nervous
Parenting is the biggest challenge you will likely face in your life.
You're not wrong to feel nervous about taking it on.
You Feel Frustrated
You find yourself losing your temper.
Your child is acting out
You feel incompetent
You Feel Confused
Everyone has an opinion about how to parent, usually based on how they were parented.
Books and online information have conflicting advice.
It seems like everyone wants to sell something.
You Feel Badly
You feel like a bad parent.
You feel like you're not up to the job.
You feel. like you're messing it up.
Licia Rando, MEd, MSW, LICSW
Child Therapist and Children's Book Author
Licia has been on a lifelong learning journey to help children feel safe and loved. She does this as a therapist, author, educator and volunteer. She hopes to help parents on their parenting journey through her blog and the Caring and Connected Parenting Guide, endorsed by pediatric and mental health leaders as well as Nobel Prize winners. Licia’s writing is informed by neuroscience and attachment theory. She hopes you will join her on her journey and make the most of your caring and connected family years.
Learn more about Licia
The Key is Neuroscience
Caring & Connected Parenting is based on the latest neuroscience research. It gives us simple and easy solutions to being great parents. By taking a "neuro-aware" approach to parenting, you can be completely in control in even the toughest parenting situations like public temper tantrums.
Endorsements for Caring & Connected Parenting
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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"…Parenting is no easy task, but it is the most important task with the most effect on our future. Caring and Connected Parenting will help parents achieve relationships with their children that operate on a foundation of love and mutual respect. Imagine a world in which all children feel loved and are able to share it. This is a world in which peace reigns."
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About Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu, was a South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
He passed away in 2021.
Laura Jana, M.D.
Pediatrician and Author
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"Parenthood is truly a life-changing event — one that can be both amazing and at the same time, daunting…there is no question that parents serve as their children’s first and most important role models. We must therefore always remember that the most valuable gift we can give our children is a consistently safe and caring environment in which they can live, learn and thrive. This easy-to-read guide helps parents do just that.."
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About Laura Jana...
Laura A. Jana, M.D. is a pediatrician, early educator and nationally acclaimed parenting and children’s book author. She first gained national recognition working with world-renowned pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and edited the 7th edition of his book. She is a member of the ReadyNation Brain Science Speakers Bureau, serves as a consultant for Primrose Schools, a 400-school system of educational child care centers, and most recently served as a strategic consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and MIT Media Lab and is the author of over 30 books.
Daniel Siegel, M.D.
Neuroscientist and Best-Selling Author
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"…Caring and Connected Parenting offers adults a way to make sense of their lives and empowers them to be present with children in science-proven ways that can help cultivate resilience, focus, and resourcefulness in the next generation. Now is the time, and these are the accessible steps…"
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About Daniel Siegel, M.D.
Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Dr. Siegel has written six parenting books, including the three New York Times bestsellers and has the ability to make complicated scientific concepts exciting and accessible to non-experts.
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
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"Today, parents and children are under more stress than they were 50 years ago when I was raising my children… This means that we must increase our efforts to support parents and children at this critical time if we want our children to have a brilliant future. When we are present to support them we can prevent problems rather than having to treat them for failure later… Caring and Connected Parenting Guide is an accessible, short, and very useful resource for all parents.."
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About Dr. Brazelton
Thomas Berry Brazelton was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). He hosted the cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty-four books. Dr. Brazelton passed away in 2018
Riane Eisler
Systems Scientist & Author
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"Caring and Connected Parenting gives new parents and parents from abusive backgrounds the tools necessary to connect with their children so they may develop lifelong healthy relationships. The pathway to peace—in the family and world —begins with the love and guidance of a child."
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About Riane Eisler...
Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney She is the president of the Center for Partnership Systems (CPS), dedicated to research and education, Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, an online peer-reviewed journal at the University of Minnesota that was inspired by her work, keynotes conferences nationally and internationally, has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Department of State, and Congressional briefings, has spoken at corporations and universities worldwide on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work, and is Distinguished Professor at Meridian University, which offers PhDs and Master’s degrees based on Eisler’s Partnership-Domination social scale.
Betty Williams
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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"This is an essential guide for parents: short, accessible, based on the latest scientific research. It is a wonderful contribution to families and an important tool to help lay foundations for a more peaceful and caring world."
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About Betty Williams
Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Dr. Siegel has written six parenting books, including the three New York Times bestsellers and has the ability to make complicated scientific concepts exciting and accessible to non-experts.