Evidence-based education & training that helps parents regulate emotions under stress and protect their child’s emotional well-being.
Parents need support with their emotions, not just parenting advice.
Parenting IS overwhelming
48% of U.S. parents say that most days, their stress is “completely overwhelming.”
Source: U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory, 2024
Parental stress impacts kids
Multiple studies link higher parental stress with more emotional and behavioural difficulties in children
Source: Ribas and colleagues, 2024
Emotion regulation is a SKILL
Emotion-focused training improve parents’ well-being and emotions & behaviours in kids
Source: England-Mason and colleagues, 2023.
Lower stress in your home starts with stronger emotional skills
Our programs help parents build skills to respond more intentionally, manage emotions under stress, and improve how they engage in conflict.
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The Reflective Parenting Podcast.
For parents who want to better understand themselves, their emotions, and the patterns shaping family life. (You can also join our book club!)
Curious Neuron Academy
An evidence-based education and training platform for building emotion regulation skills across families and early childhood education as well as supporting pediatric healthcare.
Parents & Caregivers
Build the skills to manage stress, regulate emotions, and navigate everyday family challenges with greater intention.
Pediatric Clinicians
Give families free access to evidence-based resources that complement your care and support children’s emotional development.
Early Childhood Educators
Join our certification program to equip your educators to co-regulate and support emotional development through a nervous system lens.
Emotional Health Resource Database for Pediatric Clinics
About 50% of pediatric primary care visits involve behavioral or psychosocial concerns
Yet primary care givers don’t have the time or resources to support parents. Families can face long waits for therapy, while parents also need practical support to strengthen their own emotional skills not just help managing their child’s behaviour.
At Curious Neuron, we know that supporting a child’s emotional health means supporting their parents, too. Our clinical partners access our Emotional Health Resource Database, built to help parents understand their child’s emotions, handle challenging behaviours, and recognize how stress affects their responses.
Helping early childhood educators support children’s emotional development
For early childhood & K-5 educators
Young children’s stress responses are shaped by their early childcare environments. Co-regulation training matters.
Supporting children’s big emotions can be challenging when early childhood educators are also managing their own stress and a busy classroom.
Curious Neuron offers neuroscience-informed early childhood educator training and certification to help educators understand stress responses, strengthen their own emotion regulation, and use co-regulation to support children’s emotional development.
Is your centre ready to receive training in emotion regulation skills and pediatric brain development?
Our Curious Neuron Early Childhood Certification program launches in 2027!
The latest research focused on your family's emotional health
Emotion regulation skills, child behaviour and emotions, parental well-being, stress management and more. Stay up to date with the research.
Trusted by parents & clinicians around the world
Curious Neuron COMPLETELY CHANGED OUR LIVES and I'm afraid to even imagine what the mental health of my daughter would be now if we had not discovered Curious Neuron and I would have not learned how to control my own emotions as a parent
Domenic, Dad of a 6-year-oldMontreal, Canada
Curious Neuron is an example of positive change in the right direction.
Dr. Bruce PerryPsychiatrist, Neuroscientist, #1 NYT Bestselling author of What Happened to You
Dr. Cindy had an knowledgeable interesting discussion concerning the topic of regulating parents’ emotions with our team and its profound impact on children’s health and development. Understanding and addressing these dynamics is essential for fostering a nurturing environment that supports the growth and well-being of our next generation.
Dr.Rashed AlNooryaniGovernment Policy Leader, UAE
Meet our founder
Dr. Cindy Hovington, Ph.D., is a mother of three, TEDx speaker, and neuroscientist who founded Curious Neuron, a digital educational platform that teaches parents emotion regulation skills to help protect their children’s future mental health.
What began as a parent-focused blog in 2017 has grown into an internationally recognized family emotional health education platform trusted by pediatric clinicians and early childhood educators, and recognized by researchers and policymakers around the world. Curious Neuron serves parents in over 70 countries and reaches more than 200,000 parents through social media and its podcast.
Dr. Hovington has advised emotional health companies, large technology companies, and policymakers in Abu Dhabi, all with a shared focus on building emotionally healthy homes that support children’s long-term mental health.
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