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Need Skills? Improve mental health & relationships

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  • About
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    • FAQ
  • Mental Help Tools
    • #1 Basic Tools
    • #2 Telka's Stress Tools
    • #3 Anxiety Tools
    • #4 Depression & Grief
    • #5 Anger Tools
    • #6 Relationship Tools
    • #7 Self- Esteem tools
    • #8 Difficult People
  • Mental Help Videos
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Recommended videos, podcasts and books for parents

Parenting = Biggest job of your life. (No pressure, you got this!)

1. Begin with the Inside Out Video 

2. Practice the tools located in Basic tools begin here.

3. Take a deep breath, add self-compassion and practice positive self-talk... 

now you are ready to enjoy these resources.

Additional Resources for Parents, including free classes!

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

https://susancain.net/susan-cain-quiet-podcast/

#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

stress builds strength and coping skills

#7 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  

And she has workbooks for your kids!

#8 Raise Resilient Children.

Have you just wished that your child is happy? That is a lot of pressure... no one is happy all the time!  Jennifer Senior: Why is parenthood filled with so much anxiety? 2016  (18 min)

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

Dr Becky Kennedy Parenting Book
"Good Inside"

#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. 

cleo wade helps parents heal hearts and encourage leadership

Video # 11 Cleo Wade reads her NYT Best Selling children's book What The Road Said

A delightful book for parents to help children overcome fear of the unknown by becoming a leader in their journey through life. Published 2021   6 min video

I recommend all things Cleo Wade

Kids and sexuality

Video #12  Parenting tools talking about sex. "For some reason, says educator Al Vernacchio, the metaphors for talking about sex in the US all come from baseball -- scoring, getting to first base, etc. The problem is, this frames sex as a competition, with a winner and a loser. Instead, he suggests a new metaphor, one that's more about shared pleasure, discussion and agreement, fulfillment and enjoyment. Let's talk about ... pizza!" TedX 2013  (8 min)  

Love No Matter What

Video #13  Love, no matter what

"What is it like to parent a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents -- asking them: What's the line between unconditional love and unconditional acceptance?"  Ted.com Talk 2013 (24 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. 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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