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 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
Video #4 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
Video #5 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
#6 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
Brave, creative, strong kids
Video #9 Teach girls bravery, not perfection.
We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program — two skills they need to move society forward.
2016 TedTalk 13 minute video
#10 Podcast with Dr Becky
"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.
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. Khan Academy for help with education and learning.
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
Damour, L (2016) Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
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
Kennedy
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