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Useful Resources
About Parenting

Helpful Links
Here are some sites, links, and articles from around the web to help you through the struggles, joys, and challenges of parenting today.

Websites:

Be Curious, Not Furious. Parenting Skills for the Modern World - including how to manage technology. Susan Bauerfeld, PhD & Chris Parrott, BPS.

A site dedicated to helping parents to understand how their child’s mindset influences their behaviors, motivation, and achievement.

Advice parents to help kids with ADHD. Articles on managing emotions and impulses, overcoming school challenges, and other life and family issues are highlighted.

A site devoted to practical ideas for social, emotional, and behavioral challenges for children with learning and attention issues.

Developed by KQED, a Calfornia Public Broadcasting station, MindShift is a fascinating site that explores the future of learning in all its dimensions.

The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened. Great Videos on this site for visualizing what children need from adults.

This site is a treasure trove of information, and a life net for parents thrust unexpectedly into the special needs’ world. It strives to empower parents, professionals, and students to become more effective advocates in their schools and communities.

Articles:

How to get better at the things you care about

Working hard but not improving? You’re not alone. Eduardo Briceño reveals a simple way to think about getting better at the things you do, whether that’s work, parenting, or creative hobbies. And he shares some useful techniques so you can keep…

Ted.com|by Eduardo Briceño

What Parents of Early-Teen Boys Need to Know

New research shows where boys lag behind girls in early adolescence. Here are steps parents can take to support them.

Wsj.com|by Sue Shellenbarger

How Does Anxiety Short Circuit the
Decision-Making Process?

Anxiety disengages neurons in the prefrontal cortex linked to decision-making.
Psychologytoday.com

A story to inspire hope. Evidence that one of the hardest, yet most important things you can do for your children is to keep believing in them.

Live it to Learn it

Live it to Learn it – It is a powerful message that my friend Elizabeth shared with me about her journey parenting her son. I work with so many parents who worry about their children’s futures. That worry is what makes us human. But what we do with…

Ptscoaching.com

15 Clues Your Child is Getting Bullied and What to do About it

Would you be able to tell if your child is getting bullied?

Impactadhd.com