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- Parents.com – A helpful resource for information and support through their online community and forum
- Supernanny online parenting resources
- A Basic List of Parenting Advice from scarymommy.com – A down to earth listing of tips
- Love and Logic – an excellent resource for parenting with love and logic
- Article: “Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids” (Mickey Goodman) – Excellent discussion of the problems related to raising children without allowing them to fall, fail, and fear, which is essential in building feelings of self-efficacy, perseverance, and mental toughness of overcoming adversity
- Article: “The Strong Willed Child” – I think I particularly enjoy this article and topic because I was and still am pretty strong willed! In any case, this article gives helpful tips and suggestions as to how to parent a strong willed child most effectively.
- Explanation of “Closet Listening” by positive discipline.com – This is a technique I use often in therapy as I believe that if we listen to the small things for a child, they will be more likely to tell us the big things that are hard to talk about.
- Article: “Positive Parenting: How to Follow Through With Limits” (Positive Parenting Connection) – A fantastic overview of setting limits firmly and kindly.
- Article: “A Week of No Time-Outs” (Meg Conley) – A fascinating perspective on connecting more with your child when they are having their most difficult moments, rather than using the typical time-out strategy. As I say quite often and as I know I felt when I was a “difficult child”, a little empathy goes a long way!
- Article: “The Day I Stopped Saying ‘Hurry Up'” (Rachel Macy Stafford) – An excellent reminder to all of us to enjoy the present moment and stay mindful of what is going on around us!
- Article: “Modern Moms Looking for Perfection in all the Wrong Places” (Karol Markowicz) – Interesting perspective about the pressure on moms to be perfect in every way
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