Being a parent today is hard. Fragmented attention, economic challenges, educational attainment, social media, social comparison, a sense of time famine, FOMO.
Here are some resources to help you get find pathways and frameworks to make sense of and navigate your role.
Awareness is Power
Awareness is Power
Documentary:
Documentary:
For: Parents, children and students who are unaware of the dangers that they subject themselves to everyday in our society. Awareness is power.
Suggest: Intentionally scheduling a time to watch it together with your family or as a class (only when everyone has the bandwidth) and discuss it afterwards.
Book:
Book:
For: Parents and teachers who want a overview of the research into the harms that smartphones, social media, attention capturing algorithms pose on children and all of us.
Suggest: Read with your partner or start a book club with likeminded friends.
Foundational Readings to Upskill Yourself
Foundational Readings to Upskill Yourself
The wisdom in these books are easy to understand but take a lifetime of practice, stumbles and failures to become comfortable with. Give yourself the grace and permission to not be perfect.
Book:
Book:
An accessible book for parents full of relatable scenarios of conflicting parent-child interactions, a framework for how to approach them differently, practice exercises and encouraging words.
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Book:
A deeper dive into the framework that underlies "How to Talk".
For: Not only parents, but any adult with relationships in conflict or are seeing to build stronger, more meaningful connections.
Suggest: Reading together with your partner or the person you want a stronger connection with.
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Book:
For: Teachers and diligent parents who seek a way to approach to misbehaviour they see in their students/child that will empower them with tools that they can use for the rest of their lives.
Suggest: Reading after a solid grounding in non-violent communication.
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