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Parenting Advice And Resources
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Parenting advice and resources are some times best given from parent to parent.
So, since I am not yet a biological parent, I will introduce you to some people who are and have valuable on-line resources to share.
On this page you will find gathered together a solid group of experienced parents who are right there with you as a parent.
As I gather parent resources I will keep an eye out for online gems that resonate with my understanding of education as a lifelong process to share with you.
The first parent I want to introduce you to is Bonnie Harris who is sharing her Connective Parenting philosophy.
Bonnie gives parenting advice in her books, but she is also providing a great discussion group through her web site.
Bonnie is also teaching parents valuable skills that are focused on being practical and straightforward about what's really going on between you and your child.
The parents I want to introduce to you next are Sarah Bowman and Diane Phillips Shakin the founders of KidsOffTheCouch.com.
They have created a really fun way to engage your kids in fun stuff that also happen to be great learning opportunities, too, by combining books, movies and activities that share common themes.
Nancy Murphy, the creator of the-childrens-guide.com is teaching parents about a whole variety of topics.
The-Childrens-Guide offers you parenting tips and advice.
You will find great tips for teaching your children and helping them achieve success in school and at home.
Naomi Aldort, the author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves has a web site that focuses on what is known as attachment parenting.
I met her and two of her boys while I was the assistant manager at the Olympic Hostel at Fort Worden in Port Townsend.
She teaches parents to pay attention to how the automatic responses that our minds generate get in the way of being an authentic human being with our children.
Being an authentic human being is the most important thing we can be and the more we can achieve it the more likely we can help our children be authentic, too.
Here are six videos (from ~2 to ~8 min. in order from shortest to longest) of Naomi:
Alfie Kohn is the author of Punished By Rewards and many other books plus his website, alfiekohn.com, but I wanted to share these three short videos of him sharing some of tidbits from his work.
I will add to this page as I find the kinds of resources that I will want to have handy when I become a parent looking for resources.
- Parenting Styles or Childing Styles
Parenting styles researchers assert that if you simply behave right as a parent your children will behave right, too. This is wrong, parenting is a moral, not behavioral challenge. - Expert Parenting Advice, Can We Trust It?
What’s a parent to do when parenting experts disagree? Some expert parenting advice seems absurd, but is it true? - Parenting Facts
Parenting fact #5: Parenting is a moral challenge not a behavioral one. Read all five parenting facts here.
- Home Schooling: Home School Curriculum: Start Anywhere, Learn Everything
This is a free home school curriculum approach that teaches the 3R's of Respect, Responsibility, and Resourcefulness.- The Moral Path of Curriculum: Fulfillment Or Judgment?
Every curriculum takes the moral path of either fulfillment or judgment, find out how to tell which way you're going.
- The Moral Path of Curriculum: Fulfillment Or Judgment?
