Need Skills? Use Telka's tools
Need Skills? Use Telka's tools
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.
Dr Becky interviews Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, educator and author. He studied the impact of video games and social media on people born after 1994. Brains are altered, mental illness is a real result.
Need more facts? Check out his 2024 book The Anxious Generation
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/...
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)
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
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
This 14 min Ted Talk by "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.
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
Video #8 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.)
Video #9 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)
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
Haidt, Jonathan (2024) The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.
Kennedy, Becky (2022) Good Inside
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
More family and parenting resources
Free Parent Education Classes MSU
Safe Families, emergency assistance Bethany Services
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