Resources for Parents
Resources for Parents
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Conversation Jumpstarts
Connect more deeply with your kids and move beyond one-word answers with these fun, printable Conversation Jumpstarts.
From discussion guides to audio meditations and book recommendations, here is a collection of tools to make your parenting journey wiser, easier, and more fun.
Explore the tools I’ve created as well as my library of curated books and websites on my parenting specialties, parenting all ages of children, and personal growth.
As Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” Our children guide us to look at ourselves and learn more as we hit moments of uncertainty, conflict, fear and frustration. These moments spur us to ask questions, seek information, and grow through experimentation.
We benefit and our children benefit as we know better and do better.
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How to Use this Library
I have curated a selection of my favorite parenting books and websites for you.
Many clients have found these resources helpful, like my client relaxing on the beach with a free download from my Strategies for Soulful Parents newsletter. I hope you find these resources inspiring, too!
Click on the category of your interest or schedule a Clarity Call for recommendations for your family.
- ADHD/ Neurodivergent Kids
- Anxiety
- Communication
- Communication with your Partner
- Developmental Stages of Children
- Digital Age / Screen Safety
- Empathy
- Family Harmony
- Foundational Parenting Strategies
- Knowing Yourself
- Mindful Awareness
- Mindful Parenting
- Mindfulness for Kids
- New Baby in the Family
- Parenting Tweens & Teens
- Parenting Young Adults
- Parenting Young Children
- Racial Justice
- Self-Renewal
- Sibling Relationships
- Spiritual Education
- Using Imagination
Thriving in College with ADHD This article contains suggestions for college students with ADHD, including great resource links at the end. 7 Tips for College Students with ADHD offers excellent, practical tips as well.
For Parents
Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School by Michelle Icard is a wise and helpful guide on how to start the critical conversations we need to have with our teenagers and keep them going over the coming years. She offers useful relatable examples, scripts, and memorable tips that can help you with kids of any age, even adults! Check out my blog on her BRIEF conversation model and key ways to open conversations with teens.
The Enneagram is a powerful way to understand yourself and your relationship with your partner more fully. I recommend taking the RHETI test and then scheduling a call with me to talk through your results. I trained and got certified with Elaine Bailey to use the Enneagram in my coaching. My clients have found this perspective to be very useful and illuminating in personal growth and fostering greater harmony in relationships.
Common Sense Media website has excellent resources and guidance for parents to help their kids thrive in the 21st century.
Common Sense Media offers a great list of children’s books to teach empathy.
The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves by Linda Kavelin Popov helps parents inspire moral and spiritual growth in children of all ages. It draws on writings from the world’s religions as well as practical tips and scenarios to help teach people of all ages how to turn words into actions. I used this book for my core curriculum of my Peacemakers classes, which I taught for over 11 years in my neighborhood with a group of interfaith children. It’s super helpful for inspiring conversations with your children about how to understand the meaning of virtues and how to be their best selves.
Also see books under Communication, Sibling Rivalry and Mindful Parenting.
Debby Irving, a racial justice educator and writer has a great book, website, and set of challenges to grow one’s skills to stand up for racial justice.
The strategies in these books apply not only to young children, but to teenagers and adult children as well. You can learn more about the incredible work of Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson on their helpful websites.
See resources in the Family Harmony Section as well.
Aha Parenting — Dr. Laura Markham has created a fabulous website where you can type in a question and receive her answers written to parents who have asked related questions. My parenting philosophy is very aligned with hers, so I recommend her books and her website to my clients.
Unruffled Podcast — Janet Lansbury teaches respectful parenting through inspiring responses to people who call in with all sorts of questions about raising young children. She has a very soothing, wise and calm voice and is the author of several inspiring books on parenting.
Personal Growth
The Enneagram is a powerful way to understand yourself and the people in your life more fully. I recommend taking the RHETI test and then scheduling a call with me to talk through your results. I trained and got certified with Elaine Bailey to use the Enneagram in my coaching. My clients have found this perspective to be very useful and illuminating in personal and family growth and mutual understanding.
Tenpercenthappier app Dan Harris has an excellent podcast and app for meditation and learning from wise meditators and spiritual teachers around the world. I’ve been a member since 2021 and love the meditations, courses, and podcast on this app.