Know how to help when (not if) your child's feelings or friendships get hard.

It's not easy being a kid. Big feelings, friends, and friendship drama are normal but painful experiences. The good news is that there's a lot that we, as parents, can do to help our kids learn the skills they need to understand and cope with their feelings and build strong and caring relationships.

These online courses for parents or kids (ages 6-12), from psychologist and author Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, offer practical, research based tips you can use right away and longer term. Each useful and entertaining course is about 45-60 minutes long and broken into 3- to 9-minute segments, so you can watch it all at once or a little at a time. To access these courses, 

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All Courses at a Glance

Friendship Skills for Kids
FOR KIDS · WATCH WITH YOUR CHILD

Friendship Skills for Kids

Practical, entertaining guidance for the real stuff, from making new friends to handling arguments and dealing with teasing. Covers the five essential skills every child needs for lasting friendships.

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Dealing with Feelings About Friends
FOR KIDS · WATCH WITH YOUR CHILD

Dealing with Feelings About Friends

Kids' biggest emotions are often about friends. This fun, thought-provoking course helps children understand, cope with, and talk about their own feelings and those of the people around them.

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Kid Conflicts: How Parents Can Help
FOR PARENTS

Kid Conflicts: How Parents Can Help

Clear, practical strategies for the three most common peer conflicts: when someone is mean to your child, when your child annoys other kids, and when your child has a frenemy.

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Emotion Coaching: Help Your Child Cope with Big Feelings
FOR PARENTS

Emotion Coaching

Learn how to prevent or shorten meltdowns and help your child understand and manage difficult feelings. The guide you need to navigate heated moments and create more peace at home.

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Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Build Real Self-Esteem
FOR PARENTS

Kid Confidence

Trying to boost self-esteem directly often backfires. The more we tell self-doubting kids, "You're great!", the more they argue, "I'm terrible!" Learn what actually works.

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Helping Your Child Cope with Anxiety
FOR PARENTS · COMING SOON

Helping Your Child Cope with Anxiety

Worry can shrink a child's world. Learn how to comfort your child without feeding the worry, and help them do hard things anyway.

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Helping Siblings Get Along
FOR PARENTS

Helping Siblings Get Along

Real strategies to turn sibling conflict into opportunities for learning the social skills that matter most.

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Turn Kids' Disrespect into Connection and Cooperation
FOR PARENTS

Turn Kids' Disrespect into Connection and Cooperation

Practical, research-based strategies for the behaviors that leave parents baffled, and for raising kids who treat others with genuine kindness and respect.

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Parenting During Difficult Times
FOR PARENTS

Parenting During Difficult Times

Honest, compassionate guidance for the most common challenges of stressful times: anxiety, loneliness, screen dependency, and sibling conflict.

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Friendship in the Digital Age
FOR PARENTS

Friendship in the Digital Age

An honest, research-informed look at how screen time, social media, and online communication affect your child's friendships, from video games to cyberbullying.

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Ages and Stages of Children's Friendships
FOR PARENTS · FRIENDS FOR LIFE EXCLUSIVE

Ages and Stages of Children's Friendships

A quick video walking you through how kids' friendships change as they grow, so you know what's typical at each developmental stage.

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Raising Kind Kids
FOR PARENTS · FRIENDS FOR LIFE EXCLUSIVE

Raising Kind Kids

From about age 3 onwards, kids know what they should do to be kind, but it's not always easy to act on, especially when they're upset. Do-able strategies for addressing mean behavior and encouraging kindness.

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Friends for Life

Friends for Life gives you the tools you need to be your child's friendship coach. It includes access to all 12 online courses, live Q&As with Dr. Eileen every other month, plus bonus articles, guides, and short videos that dive deeper into your biggest concerns. Get the resources you need to help your child make friends, keep friends, and be a good friend, now and for life.

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Hear what other parents are saying

A truly insightful exposition of friendship in the real world for parents and children to watch together. Such practical tips and exercises. Thank you.

Rhys T.

There were so many thoughtful tips on friendship for everyone... Thank you so much for giving of your time and heart!

Lisa W.

Comprehensive and yet easy to understand. Dr. Eileen made sure the information she was presenting connected with all parents of children of all ages.

Tara H., mom of 2-, 4-, & 7-year olds

Dr. Eileen made me feel more prepared for difficult conversations with my children by giving me the necessary tools and insights on what works best for children based on her experience within her practice, with her own children, and based on research she shared. Highly recommend!

Katie C., mom of 8- & 11-year olds

Thank you for your work! It has helped me tremendously with children I see who struggle with social language.

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It felt validating and also encouraging to guide us on best ways to support [our daughter]. I'm truly thankful.

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We're so grateful for everything you've done for our family.

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Instructor

Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD

I'm an author, clinical psychologist, and mom of four, based in Princeton, NJ (lic. #35SI00425400). I write about parenting, mental health, and children's feelings and friendships. My recent books include: Moody Moody Cars (for ages 4-8), Growing Feelings (for ages 6-12), and Kid Confidence (for parents). I also host a podcast for children, called Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic. Learn more: * Main website: EileenKennedyMoore.com * Podcast for kids: DrFriendtastic.com/podcast * Newsletter for parents: DrFriendtastic.substack.com.

Obviously, these courses are NOT psychotherapy. They're for educational purposes only about important topics families. The ideas mentioned by me or other community members may or may not be relevant for your particular situation.

I trust you to use your judgement about what makes sense for your child and your family and to consult your physician or a mental health provider, if needed, about very serious or complicated situations.


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