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Special Parenting Resources
“As Bad as Cocaine and Amphetamines.”
Article by Dr. Mercola about the dangers of ADHD medications and the pressure on parents to use them. Includes a number of non-drug options.
Click here for link.
“What Babies Learn Before They’re Born”
TED Talk by Annie Murphy Paul about “fetal origins” and how we start absorbing and responding to information in the prenatal environment: “The recognition that learning actually begins before birth leads us to a striking new conception of the fetus, the pregnant woman and the relationship between them.” (Paul)
For video and text information, click here.
A Lexicon of Learning: What Teachers Mean When they Say...
Ever wondered what educators mean when they refer to “authentic assessment” or “Bloom's Taxonomy”? Education, like all professions, has a specialized vocabulary that parents and others may have a difficult time understanding. This online dictionary, A Lexicon of Learning, provides clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language.
Stop Homework Web site
Stop Homework, founded by Sara Bennett, co-author of The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It (Crown 2006), is a non-profit project, affiliated with The Alliance for Childhood, which is devoted to advocating for change in homework policy and practice. At this site, you'll find up-to-the-minute homework news and opinion articles, guest editorials, suggestions for advocating change in homework policy, and discussion forums for parents, educators, psychologists, and students.
Plain Talk About Spanking
Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE) offers this publication for the benefit of children everywhere. The ideas that you will read here are not new. There have always been wise and perceptive people in every civilized culture who have practiced and advocated violence-free interactions with children. In these few pages we have attempted to summarize their message and offer it once again.
Click here to read the text or to order a free copy of this booklet.
Parenting With Purpose: Five Keys to Raising Children With Values and Vision
This book by Robert Reasoner and Marilyn Lane is based on over 25 years of research and experience. Research has demonstrated that unless children’s basic social/emotional needs for security, identity, belonging, purpose, and competence are met, they are likely to engage in anti-social behaviors and seek the means to compensate for their unfulfilled basic needs. This book provides a framework with over 150 activities that parents can use to fulfill these needs while developing the personal characterisitics they would most like to see in their children.
Self-Esteem Resources, 360-437-0300
Mom’s House, Dad’s House
The complete guide for parents who are separated, divorced, or remarried by Isolina Ricci, Ph.D., is the classic, time tested, hands-on guide—now in its 44th printing—on how to make tough times work for you. Its 380 pages are packed with hands-on tools for navigating divorce, parenting, and family law. Also available: Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids.
Mom’s House, Dad’s House Web site.
Also: Dr. Isolina Ricci’s Web site for more information on divorce, stepfamilies, parenting and life transitions.
Kids’ Safe Zone Stickers- FREE
Order
your supply of weather- and fade-resistant, adhesive-back, vinyl KIDS’
SAFE ZONE stickers.You can even download a PDF from their site (below)
and print your own!
Project NoSpank
Email: safekids@nospank.net
or Call: 925-831-1661
Free book excerpts
Excerpts from a variety of books about issues such as discipline (with
particular emphasis on problems associated with spanking and paddling),
teaching self-discipline and positive ways to raise kids.
Parents and Teachers
Against Violence in Education
Starseed Arts & Education
Starseed Arts & Education is a resource for parents and educators
who are seeking to provide their children with a spiritual foundation
for their lives. A lovely, easy-to-navigate site with information on children’s
books, toys and games, meditation for children, and spiritual parenting
and education.
http://www.starseededucation.com/educ.htm
When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It
by Dr. Ron Taffel with Roberta Israeloff
One of the most common questions I get from parents in my workshops comes from a parent who has a very different set of rules or expectations from his or her spouse. This is one of the first books I’ve seen that addresses these issues. Written for parents in heterosexual relationships whose parenting styles differ from one another, the approach is pretty traditional and will apply to a great many families, however techniques can apply to a variety of family configurations with more than one adult involved in a child’s upbringing. (Guilford Press, London, 1994). Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Related links:
21st Century Schools and Learning
Brain Gym and Related Resources
Bullying and Student Social Skills
Digital Culture and Citizenship
Drug Abuse, Tobacco, and Alcohol Education
Eating Disorders, Food, and Body Image
Emotional Support and Mental Health
Learning, Achievement, and Motivation
Money and Financial Literacy for Kids
Multisensory and Sensory Integration
Relationships, Violence, and Safety
Sensitivities (Environmental, Digestive, Neurological)
Directory of links by Topic or Category.
Index of all links and resources.
Discipline and Behavior Management Books by Dr. Jane Bluestein, including Parents, Teens & Boundaries, The Parent’s Little Book of Lists and Creating Emotionally Safe Schools.
Discipline and Classroom Management Articles and Handouts by Dr. Jane Bluestein.
Discipline and Classroom Management Workshops by Dr. Jane Bluestein.
Hire Jane: Everything you need for your next conference or professional development event
Jane’s Calendar
Click here (or on the image to the left) to see Jane’s schedule. Click here for a map with links to dates that she will be in your area.
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