5 TED Talks on parenting that every parent should watch 2026

TED talks are becoming more and more fashionable in many fields. And they are because of their functioning and meaning: it is a 'speaking' or 'monologue' by a person who is an expert on a certain topic that lasts no more than X minutes and that provides keys to better understand or reflect on a specific topic. They are so famous that there are even festivals focused on them such as the well-known TEDx Talks, held in different cities.

No field is left uncovered (this is understandable since we can find experts in almost anything). And, of course, education and parenthood were not going to be any less. We have decided to compile some very practical TED talks, in which experts such as Carlos González, pediatrician expert in infant feeding, or Ken Robinson, great education guru, talk about tips and ideas to improve teaching at home and advice for dealing with tantrums, with the emotional education of children or with the 'why' stage.

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Carlos González: baby food free of baby food

Pediatrician Carlos González has become famous for his advice on parenting and baby care. In this TED talk, which he gave at the TEDx Valencia event a few years ago, he presents his opinions on the beginning of complementary feeding and the introduction of the first solids in the baby's diet. It provides clues in a humorous tone about the use of baby food and the great furor they have had in recent years. In just 19 minutes it leaves some statements as striking as this: “the objective of infant feeding is not nutritional, but educational.”

Jennifer Senior: For Parents: Happiness is Too High a Bar

For the writer Jennifer Senior, the goal of modern parents (raising happy children) is very difficult to achieve and everyone relies on help books that they can easily find in all bookstores and that do not work according to her. Therefore, in this 18-minute TED talk he provides other simpler, more practical and fun goals to achieve and that, however, parents can try to achieve without having to seek help anywhere else. He believes that parents suffer more stress than those who are not parents and that parents are completely responsible for the self-esteem of our children. Furthermore, he concludes by saying that although we all want happiness for them, trying not to hurt them should be the most important thing.

Rufus Griscom and Alisa Wolkman: Let's talk about taboos in parenting

The editors of bablee.com, a portal dedicated to children, Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, discuss four facts that parents never admit but everyone has thought about at some point. A very interesting talk, especially for first-time parents who believe that their life with their new child will be a field of happiness and good times and who later discover that this is not the case. They talk, specifically, about four taboos around parenting and in a humorous tone: the first, when the parents admit to having fallen in love with the baby at first sight; the second, about the loneliness of having a baby; the third, the one that says that one cannot speak of natural abortion; and the fourth that, according to them, comes to say that talking about happiness being less after having a child is frowned upon.

Ken Robinson: Schools kill creativity

This specific TED talk is one of the ones that has received the most visits since it was given in 2006 and uploaded to the internet. In it, the British educator, lecturer and writer Ken Robinson, speaks in a humorous way about how we educate our children today, leaving a clear premise that gives the title to the 18-minute talk: schools kill children's creativity, since it does not occupy the place in education that it should deserve.

Bruno Solari: Fathers present

As a psychologist who is an expert in mindfulness, Bruno Solari provides different parenting guidelines to understand the behavior of children and the couple. It focuses attention on the importance of parental affection and affection when raising their children.