Useful Articles and Resources

We all need a little help sometimes. Please find links to articles and resources on a variety of topics. If there is something you would like to know more about, please let me know.

Topics below: Separation Anxiety, Going back to school, School refusal, Making friends, Parenting, Holiday survival, Appreciating diversity and tolerance, Promoting kindness, Discipline, Raising confident children, Stranger safety, Summer fun and learning, Grade retention, Moving away, Divorce, Mindfulness & Raising polite and respectful children.



Separation Anxiety
A fantastic article about helping your child deal with separation anxiety.
Dealing with separation anxiety.
9 Parent-Tested Ways to Ease Separation Anxiety

Going back to school
A list of fantastic books about going back to school and dealing with any fears that come up.
Great tips to help you encourage you kids to talk about their school day.
An article that contains tips to help ease the transition and promote a successful school experience. It covers preparing for the transition, overcoming anxiety and having a successful first week back.
Helping your kids transition back to the school routines.
Tips for transitioning from Summer fun to school mode.
A parent survival guide for back to school. Full of great tips on things to do to make this time less stressful.
Essential tips to help ease back into structure and school work.
Transition back to school hints and helpful habits to begin.
5 Tips to Get Your Kids Up for School: Expert advice on how to help your child get up in time for school.
Start Your School Morning Right: A good school morning routine can reduce stress all year.
7 things to do in the summer to get ready to go back to school



School refusal
School Refusal - Kids Who Don't Want to Go to School


Making friends
Helping your child make friends and the power of play.
Recognizing a bad friend and helping your child deal with it.
Some great tips about helping you child develop friendships and setting up positive play dates
An article about the importance of friendships and learning how to build them.
What friendship looks like at different ages
A collection of research based tips to helping children make friends. This is not only limited to young children.
What to do when kids have trouble making friends
Helping your child make friends in a new school
How to help a child who is fighting with their friends
Good friendship skills you can help your child learn.
Helping your child solve social problems.

Helping an anxious child make friends.

Helping a child with ADD/ADHD make friends.

Helping a child overcome shyness in order to make friends.

Helping an introverted child make friends.

Helping a socially isolated child make friends and the importance of friends for social development.

Helping your child cope with social and friendship issues.

Some fun straightforward tips you can read with your child about making friends.

How to help your child make and keep friends.

How to respond to your child saying they have no friends when the teacher tells you that is not the case.

Stages of social play in preschoolers and how to help your child advance through them.

A great way to respond to the comment ‘no one wanted to play with me’

Tips for parents about helping create a community of friends for their child.

Helping your child make friends in a new school.

Discusses the process of how kids make friends.

Do kids need friends? Yes! They do.




Parenting
Nurturing Positive Development in School Age Children
Sign up for online parenting workshops and podcasts.
Positive parenting tips divided into age categories.
Sign up for weekly parenting tips.
Top ten tips for parents from the triple P parenting program.
Top ten list for managing you child’s behavior
8 ways to be a better parent
A list of fabulous parenting books.
Nine steps to more effective parenting

General Parenting websites:



Holiday survival
Getting through the holidays with a defiant child.
Parenting tips can help ease the stress of the holidays.
How to handle holiday stress
Holiday stress and anxiety in children
Tips for Holidays and Parenting: Letting Joy Win over Stress
20 Holiday time-saving tips
Ideas for what to do when kids are home all; day on holiday
Christmas fun for kids
Some fun and unexpected holiday traditions to start this year.
Start Your Own Holiday Family Traditions
Co-Parenting, after divorce, through the holidays
A fantastic article about raising ‘unspoiled’ children.
Teaching children to be charitable
Mindful Gift Giving for Families: How holiday gift giving shapes children's lives.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/outdoor/family_travel.html
Staying Healthy While You Travel.

 

http://www.parenting.com/article/stay-healthy-travel-guide
Keeping young children healthy while traveling

Teaching children to give to others with grace.

Teaching gentleness in a violent world.

Teaching your child charity

Teaching your children about donation and charity

Teaching kids to give during the holidays

A fantastic website about kids making a difference and giving back. It is by kids and for kids.

Teaching children to be charitable

A website for children who are interested in giving back and service projects. Younger kids will need a little support with this website.

Fun Holiday activities and traditions


Appreciating diversity and tolerance
Raising a child who respects differences

Wiping out prejudices before they start

Teaching your child tolerance

A handout about helping your child learn to respect diversity

Teaching young children to appreciate diversity

Teaching your child to appreciate the differences that make us special.

Diversity and children’s mental health

Information about prejudice on a website meant for children

A website for kids about UN Day

Teaching your child to be tolerant of diversity

An article about nurturing tolerance in order to reduce bullying

Helping your child learn and play in a diverse world.

Teaching children about diversity
Expert answers and parent questions regarding teaching your child about diversity
How racist adults around your child affect their development
A website dedicated to teaching tolerance and appreciation of diversity
Promoting tolerance and peace in your child
Ten steps towards raising a tolerant child



Promoting kindness
Ideas for Random Acts of Kindness Week

Kindness ideas

Share your kindness ideas with the world.

Teaching children gentleness in a violent world

Teaching kids to love themselves and others

20 truly sweet ways to show kindness to your child.

Raising a compassionate child

Teaching kids to be kind to animals

30 ways to teach kids to be kind

Many ideas on what you can do with your kids to be kind to others.

The importance of teaching kids to be kind.

Teaching your children compassion
Information about Random Acts of Kindness week and how you can get involved next year.
A website dedicated to teaching kids about kindness
How to teach your children to be kind as well as a reading list divided into appropriate age groups.
16 great random acts of kindness
A webpage with a lot of resources to help teach kids to be kind to animals
A light article reminding us why kindness is so important
If you are interested in getting involved and spreading kindness globally

A fantastic list if kindness ideas!


Discipline
An article regarding whether or not you are too tough on your kids.
Age-appropriate discipline
Discipline with love and care.
Five factors that affect how effective your discipline strategy is.
Some common disciplinary issues in children ages 5-10 and how to deal with them.
Discipline strategies for every age group
9 biggest discipline mistakes that parents make
Top 7 tips for disciplining children
Tailor your discipline to your child’s temperament

        Six ways to discipline.

         Discipline for an out of control family.

      7 secrets of toddler discipline.

     A fantastic toolkit of discipline strategies organized by age and behavior.

     Discipline strategies divided by age group

    Some tips on the best way to discipline a child

     8 Discipline mistakes that parents make

       5 Discipline problems…solved.

       The golden rules of toddler discipline

          Do you find that you are using ‘time-out’ too many times?

       Five discipline traps to avoid

       21 mom-tested discipline tricks

       Discipline without guilt. It is your job as a parent. It is not damaging to           your child…on the contrary.


        6 Little behavior problems you should not ignore


Raising confident children
How to help you be more assertive so you can model it for your kids
5 tips for raising confident and assertive girls.
What is assertiveness…this is an article you can also have your teen read, if you have one.

Stranger safety
A great handbook with tips and ideas of how to talk to your child about personal safety as well as what to do in an emergency. It is a little biased towards North American procedures and law enforcement but still has some great tips and ideas.

Tips on how to talk to your kids about strangers

How to talk to your kids about strangers

Quick and straightforward prevention tips to keep your kids safe

Great advice regarding calling strangers ‘tricky people’ instead of strangers while teaching kids to stay safe. 

Stranger safety website for kids.

Teaching kids about ‘Tricky people’ instead of strangers

How to talk to your kids about strangers

A list of websites and articles devoted to stranger safety

How to teach your kids to be safe from strangers in cyberspace

10 things to teach your kids about strangers

Talking to kids about strangers without scaring them


Talking to your kids about strangers beyond just saying…’don’t talk to strangers’

Summer fun and learning
A site with dozens of links to other articles that focus on summer learning activities and what to do to prevent summer learning loss. 
Sneaking summer learning into various activities
Preventing summer learning loss. Some research-based activities
Back to school tips for the summer divided up into things that should be done in July and August.
Some summer learning activities. This article includes links to reading, math and science activities
What is summer learning loss and what can you do about it.
Activities for summer fun with your kids
More fun summer activities
Parenting in the summer: tips for good behavior

Grade retention
How to talk to your child about retention.

http://school.familyeducation.com/anxiety/school-readiness/38773.html
Provides tips on how to talk with your child about being retained and what to do over the summer to prepare for the new school year.

Moving away
How to say goodbye to a best friend
An article that outlines some steps that kids who are moving can take in order to ease the transition to a new school.
Transition Points: Helping Students Start, Change, and Move through the Grades
Helping your child say good-bye to friends and teachers at the end of the school year.


Divorce
           A collection of articles regarding parenting after divorce.


Mindfulness

Six steps for teaching mindfulness to your children

11 ways to bring mindfulness into your own life

A lengthy article regarding the benefits of mindfulness and how to teach it.

The Mindful Child: How To Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder & More Compassionate (VIDEO)

8 ways to t teach mindfulness to kids and how to start with yourself

Mindfulness to help kids with stress

What is a mindful child (video)

The implications of mindful parenting

The 5 main tenets of mindful parenting

The mindful parent newsletter and community

a website about how being a mindful parent can positively impact your child.



                                  Raising Polite and Respectful Children 

A video about teaching kids to be respectful.

An article about teaching kids to be respectful as well how to deal with rudeness

How to raise a polite child

Five secrets to raising a courteous and well-mannered child

Raising a polite and respectful child

A collection of links to articles about teaching respect in various situations.

Steps for raising polite and obedient children.

Seven tips for instilling manners in your child

Tips for raising respectful children

How to raise polite kids

9 ways to change your kids’ attitude.

Guidelines for raising a respectful child.

6 ways to raise respectful children

How to handle disrespectful behaviors

How to stop disrespectful behaviors and back chat.




                        Being thankful and showing gratitude 

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