Parent Resources

Attachment Parenting

• Attachment Parenting Part 1 by Jim Wilder

• Attachment Parenting Part 2: Twelve Ways to Build Attachments by Jim Wilder

• Attachment Parenting Part 3: Attachment Alone Does Not Produce Trustworthy Children by Jim Wilder

• Joy in Telling Children Stories About Themselves The Gold in Storytelling with Kids. This is great inspiration for parents as they lead their children in Storytelling Circles Based on the Days of Creation. (See Below.)

Bringing Up Children in Distressing Times

• Podcasts and blogs from Bill St. Cyr of Ambleside Schools International.
• How Big is Your Sad? “Bringing up” Children in Distressing Times (Part 1)

• Building Resilience: “Bringing up” Children in Distressing Times (Part 2)

• Fruit of the Spirit: Fruits in Due Season: Growing Faith in the Summer Months

• Creating a Summer Rhythm for Households

• Reflection: A Resolve to Practice Faith at Home

Skills at Home

• Age Appropriate Chores

• 17 Kitchen Skills to Master

• Outdoor Skills on Vimeo

Reading the Bible and the Classics

• ASI Reading List

• Household Bible Reading with Lectio Divina

Remaining Relational Stories

• What is Shame? What are Remaining Relational/Return to Joy Stories?

• Remaining Relational Even When Feeling Ashamed: When we name our shame and realize who we want to be, the paralysis leaves us and we find courage to keep moving forward. Listen to this 4-minute story and nourish your brain with a concrete example that will lighten your load and quiet your head.

• Remaining Relational in Hopeless Despair: The Pandemic has required us to resource new ways of celebrating holidays and family traditions. This return to joy from despair story provides a pre-pandemic example.

• Remaining Relational in Pandemic Sadness: Recognizing how sadness feels in our body and acknowledging the losses of social distancing can be our path back to joy and hope.

• Remaining Relational in Pandemic Anger: Social Distancing complicates communication and collaboration. How can we recover from anger quickly?

Kennedy Center Couch Concerts

Books

• Little House in the Big Woods

Family Storytelling

• What Kids Learn from Family Storytelling
• The Family Stories that Bind Us
• The Importance and Benefits of Family Storytelling
• Telling a Family Culture: Storytelling, Family Identity, and Cultural Membership