It’s just about time to be going back to school - can you believe it? We can't. But we do have some tips to help your child feel prepared for and excited to start the first day of school. In the episode, we review a few general things you can do to help your child get ready for school, as well as a few tips to help your kid if he’s going to a new school, and then a few more tips on how to help your child be organized this school year.

Helping our kids develop character helps them with their academic lives. Being kind makes our days happier. Being optimistic increases our chances of persevering. Persevering helps us overcome challenges. Dr. Caren Baruch-Feldman is working on helping kids focus on and develop their character strengths to help them do better in school and beyond. Hear from Caren about what character strengths are and how you can help your kids!

School is hard enough without the added burden of anxiety. When you’re anxious, your IQ literally drops – you are incapable of thinking at your highest level. You start overthinking and overanalyzing. Or your mind is blank and you can’t be mentally present. Sometimes anxious kids are so anxious that they won’t know the answer to a question, that when the question is actually asked, even if they know the answer, they just go blank. Help your child learn to calm their anxiety with these 10 tips!

School is a safer, happier place when you have friends. It’s no wonder that parents worry if their child is making friends. When their child seems to be overly pushy, constantly texting friends, or perhaps wants to be friends with someone who doesn’t seem to want to be friends with them, that can be really difficult for parents as they try to figure out how to best help their child. Neuropsychologist Dr. Emily Anastasio joins Fireborn to talk about how to help your child with these friendship dilemmas.

Privacy is something that kids want and need and something that was already hard for parents to give when we were growing up, but feels even harder and even more dangerous these days. Research shows that parents who give their kids more autonomy and privacy are actually victimized less frequently than kids whose parents are more controlling and invasive. So we definitely want to give kids privacy! So how do we do that? Fireborn has 9 tips!

For those of you with kids transitioning to college this year, it’s getting really close to time for your kids to head off to school. This is really exciting and also probably pretty terrifying. How do you know if your child is really ready to go to college? Your child is also probably pretty excited and also pretty scared for this big change.

For a lot of kids, college will offer the most independence they have ever had, but that freedom can be dangerous if they aren’t ready for it.

Is it ever okay to say "Because I said so" to our kids? And why do I need to apologize to my kids when I mess up? That doesn't feel right. In this episode, featuring Dr. Frank Bartolomeo from the Southfield Center for Development, we answer these questions and dive into the different forms of parenting styles and how each of those different styles affect your kids.

Deciding what type of parent you want to be can be hard, especially if you want to do things a little differently than your parents did. Knowing what the different parenting styles are is the first step to figuring out how you want to parent. Each style differs in how much they emphasize or de-emphasize warmth and connection with your child and discipline. Fireborn outlines the three parenting styles and the effect that each style can have on your child in the long run.

Language matters. How we describe ourselves affects how we think of ourselves. If we say “I am sad”, that starts to define us as a sad person. But if you say, “I feel sad” that helps you realize that the feeling is temporary. There is an important distinction between saying “I am” and “I feel”. Saying “I am” is permanent and saying “I feel” is temporary. Saying “I feel” empowers you to take action. “I feel” helps you persevere and move forward and not become that feeling. Say

Everyone knows that sleep is good for them and yet we often don’t get enough of it – and our kids don’t get enough either. How do we prioritize sleep for our kids? And if there simply is no way to get more sleep, what can we do to give our kids’ brains the rest they need to rejuvenate? Fireborn’s got a few tips to help you give your kids more sleep and some good brain breaks to help their brains grow healthily.