Empower Your Family: Raise Resilient Kids and Strengthen Parent-Child Bonds

Your Family Gains

Inspired and Resilient Children

Angela Legh's stories and parenting insights will inspire kids to be creative, curious, and emotionally resilient, helping them navigate life's challenges with optimism and courage.

Practical Tools for Navigating Challenges

Parents will gain access to practical strategies and tools to address common parenting challenges, from managing emotions to encouraging academic success.

Stronger Family Bonds

By using the resources we provide, parents can foster deeper connections with their children, leading to a more supportive and loving family environment.

Encourages Meaningful Conversations

Angela Legh's books and television show offer a platform for parents and children to explore important life lessons, emotions, and challenges together. This shared experience encourages open communication and mutual understanding, helping families grow closer and more empathetic.

Discover Tips and Tricks for raising emotionally healthy kids!

Join me on Children's Lives Matter, a parenting-focused television show where we share practical tips, insightful strategies, and expert advice to help Millennial parents navigate the challenges of raising resilient children. Our mission is to illuminate the diverse issues facing families today, from mental health and education to social challenges, and provide actionable solutions to support parents in building stronger, more supportive relationships with their kids.

Watch Children’s Lives Matter TV

The Bella Santini Chronicles is more than a captivating fantasy series for children aged 8–14—it’s a transformative journey that nurtures emotional growth and resilience.

Benefits of Reading the Series:

Foster Emotional Self-Mastery: The series equips children with tools to understand and process their emotions, helping them navigate life’s challenges with greater ease.
Promote Inner Peace: Bella’s journey inspires readers to cultivate calmness and balance, even in the face of adversity.
Encourage Meaningful Conversations: The thought-provoking themes spark discussions between parents and children about emotions, values, and personal growth.

Step into a Magical World

Bella Santini in the Land of Everlasting Change is a different slice of a fascinating new alternate universe, that should be included fare for Harry Potter fans.

Midwest Book Review

This book is a life-changing masterpiece! It will empower children and allow them to
understand themselves and the world in new ways. I strongly encourage all parents to get a copy!"

Louise Jane, CEO The Golden Wizard Book Prize

The first book in The Bella Santini Chronicles, Bella Santini in the Land of Everlasting Change, is a gripping fairy tale and a guide to emotional intelligence for teens and pre-teens.
Bella is a relatable and engaging protagonist whose determination and independence make her a fantastic role model for readers. As well as modeling both emotional intelligence and consequences in the plotline, the book offers supplemental guidance for parents to support discussion and reading, from parenting advice to resources for exploring themes like bullying and sibling rivalry more deeply.

Dr. Jen Harrison, The Children's Book Review

When readers follow Bella Santini on her adventures, they learn that love is the answer, no matter what the question!

Jack Canfield; Co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul

What style of parenting do you default to while stressed?

Parenting Styles: Finding Balance for Your Child’s Growth

Every parenting style has its strengths, but under stress, it’s common to default to the approach you grew up with—even if it doesn’t fit every situation. The good news? Parenting isn’t one-size-fits-all. Flexibility allows you to adapt your style based on the moment.

For example:

Safety First: In high-stress situations, an authoritarian approach with firm boundaries and clear instructions may be necessary.
Building Trust: In emotionally sensitive moments, an authoritative style—combining empathy, warmth, and open communication—helps foster connection and trust.

Research shows that the authoritative style is the gold standard for raising resilient, well-adjusted children. It balances warmth with clear boundaries, promoting emotional health, social skills, and academic success.

Authoritarian

Authoritarian parents rely on strict rules, high standards, and punishment to control their child’s behavior. With rigid expectations and little flexibility, they maintain firm control. Children raised under authoritarian parenting may grow up fearing punishment and lack the opportunity to practice making their own decisions. As a result, some may become aggressively rebellious, struggle with social skills, and find it difficult to make sound decisions independently.

Authoritative

Authoritative parenting is often viewed as the gold standard because it blends warmth and adaptability with the clear understanding that parents maintain their role as leaders. This approach fosters a nurturing environment while ensuring that boundaries are not only learned, but respected; creating the ideal balance for guiding children. This style of parenting promotes mutual respect and understanding.

Permissive

Permissive parents often take pride in being their child’s best friend, offering warmth, open communication, and deep involvement in their child’s emotional well-being. However, this approach can have a downside. Without clear boundaries, children may struggle to understand limits and often end up taking charge, which can lead to challenges with responsibility and self-discipline later in life.

Neglectful

Neglectful parents provide for their child’s basic needs but give little attention beyond that. With minimal nurturing, expectations, or boundaries, the child is left to navigate life largely on their own. Children raised in such environments may struggle to control their emotions, fail to develop healthy coping mechanisms, and have difficulty maintaining social relationships.