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Small Things Often

Welcome to Small Things Often, a podcast from The Gottman Institute Successful long-term relationships are created through small words, small … Continued

The Research: The Still Face Experiment

The Still Face Experiment illustrates the power of emotion coaching and the importance of turning toward your child’s bids for connection.

Why Turning Against Your Partner’s Bids Is So Harmful

When two people have been in a committed relationship for a long time, a certain sense of familiarity develops.  If … Continued

Your Teen Needs You to be Their Digital Mentor

There are three types of digital parents: the enablers, the limiters, and the digital mentors.

How to Strengthen Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence

Children need the experience of feeling emotions and practice tolerating them to develop self-control and emotional intelligence.

How to Engage in Emotion Coaching

Emotion coaching gets to the heart of your child’s feelings and behaviors.

Emotion Coaching and The Highly Sensitive Child

Learn five steps that will help you support your child through their big emotions

How New Parents Keep Their Love Alive and Well

A Bringing Baby Home Educator shares relationship enhancing strategies that parents learn in the Bringing Baby Home Workshop.

The Four Parenting Styles

Your emotional awareness dramatically influences your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.

Making Gottman Concepts Teachable for Kids

Help kids connect with their peers using Gottman-based exercises

I’d Sworn off Dating “Allies,” Until I Met a Real One

He may never understand exactly how I’m feeling or what it’s like to be in my shoes, but he knows when to speak up and when to stay quiet—to listen and learn from me and others with different experiences.