Let’s be honest: parenting can feel like trying to keep a candle burning in a storm. You’re not just managing routines and responsibilities—you’re holding space for love, conflict, joy, and everything in between. And sometimes, you’re doing it with a teenager who seems to have forgotten how to smile. That’s why we start with Caring Presence.

One of the biggest myths parents carry is that we should know how to do this. After all, we were parented ourselves, right? But the world our parents raised us in isn’t the world we’re raising kids in now.

I was running a parenting workshop recently, exploring the thorny topic of device usage. As we talked about the ever-present pull of...