PARENTING SUPPORT
Books and Articles
Parenting BooksSex + Faith: Talking with your child from Birth to Adolescence- Kate Ott
The Art of Screen Time: How your Famiy Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life by Anya Kamenetz Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home - Traci Smith Raising White Children:Bringing up children in a racially unjust America - Jennifer Harvey 99 Ways to Raise Spiritually Healthy Children - Kathleen Bostrom Home Grown: Handbook for Christian Parenting - Karen DeBoer (Questions and "answers" format) The Blessing of the Skinned Knee - Wendy Mogel (Using Jewish teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children) The Blessing of a B Minus - Wendy Mogel (Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers) The Secret of Happy Families - Bruce Feiler (Improve your mornings, tell your family history, fight smarter, go out and play, and much more.) Happy Families Tool Kit - Download here. 100 Things Every Child Should know before Confirmation - Rebecca Kirpatrick I Wonder: Engaging a Child's Curiosity about the Bible - Elizabeth Caldwell. Tips for talking with Children following Traumatic Events. 10 Children's Books to help talk about Prejudice Bibliography of books - Challenging conversations about prejudice, diversity, and tolerance Bibliography of books - 10 Children's books that help white kids understand what children of color are up against. Click Here. |
Children and Grief
Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One – William C. Kroen
Helping Children Grieve – Theresa Huntley Lost and Found: A Kid’s Book for Living Through Loss – Rabbi Marc Gellman and Monsignor Thomas Hartman Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope when a special person dies – Janis Silverman 35 Ways to help a Grieving Child – The Dougy Center Good Grief – Granger Westerg (a classic for adults) Guiding your child through Grief – Mary Ann Emswiler and James Emswiler Good Grief for Kids – Katherine Dorn Zotovich (a journal) Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young children – (There is a book and a coloring book by the same name) When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to understanding Death – Laurie Brown and Marc Brown The Tenth Good Thing about Barney – Judith Viorst When your Grandparent Dies: A Child’s Guide to Good Grief – Victoria Ryan Emily Lost someone She loved by Kathleen Fucci |
New Articles of Interest/Posts
Raising Kids With Religion or Spirituality May Protect Their Mental Health - Click Here
Teaching Children Gratitude - Heather Ann Johnson. Click Here. New Discoveries about young children's faith formation - Click Here Fake News and Media Literacy - Click Here Count the Alleluias - Worshiping with Children on Easter - Leslie Swaim Fox Click Here Protecting Children from the Violence of the Cross - Traci Smith Click Here How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science) - Karlen Weese Click Here How to ween a screen Habit in Children - Meghan Owenz Click Here Faith Sprouts Blog - Linnae Peterson (and other parent resources) Trauma, Disasters, and Kids Click Here Prejudice - Bibliography of books Click Here Let the Kids learn through play - David Kohn. Click Here. Reasons to eat together - Michelle Bush Thomas Click Here. Praying Before Meals at Home by Gary Taylor of Build Faith. Click here. Vulnerability and the Super Parent Complex by Andrew Gale of Practicing Families. Click Here. Holy Week, The Cross, and Children by Build Faith. Click Here. Three Steps to FAMILYING in the Church - Nancy Going. Click Here. That They May Know and Believe (that I Believe) - by Presbyterian Pastor John. Click Here. |
Older Articles/Posts
The Grateful Child - by Martine Oglethorpe. Click Here
The Overprotected Kid - by Hannah Rosin. Click Here A New Normal: Ten Things I've Learned About Trauma - Catherine Woodiwiss | God's Politics Blog | Sojourners. Click Here. How to Teach Kids to be Grateful: Give them Less - Jen Choi Click Here. All Work and No Play How Music Changes our Brains Reaching my Autistic Son Through Disney The Mind of A Child with Autism Parenting as a Gen-Xer - by Allison Tate How Good Parents miss child sexual abuse and 5 questions to change that. Click Here. by Lauren's Kids Clapping Games - Why teach to your children by Miss Jamie. Click Here. Worship as Soccer. Click Here. How do you explain Worship to kids. Cultivating Ordinary Time - by Giles Hopkins. Click Here. Doing Theology - the creation story - by Lowry Manders. Click Here. Why-children-need-to-get-to-church-on-Christmas Eve by Carolyn Brown. Click Here. The Play Deficit - Peter Gray Click Here. Having "The Talk about Santa" by Mary Ann McKibben Dana. Click Here. |
Web Links
Bread, Not Stones - This blog includes many great entries for parents worshiping with children as well as other resources for parents bringing children up in the faith.
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Practicing Families - This website includes blog entries and suggestions by families of all kinds from various faith traditions who "practice" as families.
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