Parenting Videos & Podcasts & Resources
Video #1 Once I was very very scared
Help your child, and the child within you, learn to talk about and cope with challenging emotions with this 8-minute video reading of Chandra Ghosh Ippen's 2017 children's book is available online for free . For more information and free resources, visit https://piploproductions.com/stories/...
#2 Brene Brown's Unlocking Us Podcast Parenting Tools During These Difficult Times
This podcast offers strategies for falling apart, staying connected + kind, and giving ourselves permission to feel hard things. March 27, 2020 Podcast title: Brené on Comparative Suffering, the 50/50 Myth, and Settling the Ball
23 minutes
#3 HOW TO SHOW UP FOR TEENS WHEN BIG EMOTIONS ARISE
Clinical psychologist Lisa Damour says instead of jumping into problem-solving mode, parents can learn to ride the wave of emotional management with their children. This 18 min NPR Life Kit podcast speaks with Damour about her book The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable and Compassionate Adolescents. 2023 (20 min)
Video #4 Jill Bolte Taylor says Parents, "Keep Them Alive Til 25!"
"How come dumb things I do seem so smart while I'm doing them?" Dennis The Menace
Hopefully all parents and educators know by now that teenage brains share some of the same the brain circuitry as toddlers. Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor helps us all understand the adolescent brain in this Ted Talk “Keep them alive til 25!”| 17 minute 2013
Video #5 Successful Parenting
Bruce Feiler is the author of "The Secrets of Happy Families,"offers this Ted.com Talk about Agile programming -- for your family | 18 minute 2013
#6 Bringing up Baby Hidden Brain NPR Podcast
"Bababa, dadada, ahgaga. Babies are speaking to us all the time. To researchers, though, babbling conveys important information about a baby’s readiness to learn." Check out this 50 min Hidden Brain NPR podcast. Learn how your parenting increases or decreases your stress level and how you can improve or inhibit your child's resiliency and creativity. Aired Dec 2021
#7 Parenting the Introverted, Highly Sensitive Child Podcast
What's the relationship between introversion, sensitivity, and social anxiety? Susan Cain shares parenting tips, neuroscience updates and more information about highly sensitive kids," Her Quiet Podcast covers how to parent introverted kids in an overstimulated, hyper-sensory world. nine different episodes each under 25 min. 2016
Building strengh and coping skills
#8 Dr Becky Kennedy Good INside
"Good Inside" author Dr Becky Kenndy offers practical strategies and helpful tools to parent in today's world. She also has a podcast and offers parenting workshops.
#9 Teaching Children to Cope with Anxiety
Rethinking anxiety: Learning to face fear. Yup, you saw this video in the anxiety video section of this website. I placed it again in this section as well because parents don't always know how to help children overcome anxiety, face fears and transform worry into wisdom. Dawn Huebner | 2015 TEDx 18 min
Resources for Parents
Classes, Books and Games
1. Michigan State University offers Free Parenting Classes, check it out!
2. Learn about child development. Consider and the training program Love and Logic. Read the 2016 book by Gopnik The Gardener and The Carpenter Parent
3. Help with Attention Deficit Disorder
4. Help with academics Khan Academy .
5. TrailsToWellness.org is a website with free materials, manuals and worksheets anyone may use to address fear, anxiety, depression at appropriate age levels
6. Books and games your family may benefit from:
Family Talk ® is a fun, portable conversation game designed to keep families connected. The game includes 100 conversation questions.
Greenwood E. (2018) My Mixed Emotions. Help your kids handle their feelings
McCloud C. (2011) Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
McCloud C. (2018) Buckets, Dippers and Lids
McCloud C. (2011) Growing up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life
McCue, Kathleen (2011) How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness
Damour, L (2016) Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and 2023 The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable and Compassionate Adolescents.
Cline, F W. & Fay, J.(2020) Third Edition Parenting With Love And Logic
Karp, Harvey (2015). Happiest Baby on the Block, (2008) Happiest Toddler on the Block
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