Articles:

• How to talk to your kids about Charlottesville. From the LA Times, excellent piece with suggestions and how to avoid pitfalls talking with your children about this difficult event.
• How to cope with back to school anxiety
• Losing Is Good for You, Op-Ed, New York Times
• Outsmarting the Smart Screens: A Parent’s Guide to the Tools that are Here to Help, Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center
• How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science), Washington Post
• Helping Children Cope With Frightening News from ChildMind.org
• How to Raise a Feminist Son – New York Times
• What Mental Health Experts Say to Their Kids About School Shootings – NBC News

Books:

• Masterminds and Wingmen by Rosalind Wiseman.  This is a great book about the social/emotional world of boys. Related more to upper elementary, middle school, and upper school boys.
• The Parents We Mean to Be by Richard Weissbourd
• Michael Gurian writes great books about the social/emotional world of boys: Here’s a list of some of his books
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain This is not specifically about children but a great read about introverts. I also recommend Susan Cain’s TedTalk (see below.)

Videos and TedTalks:

I’m a big fan of TedTalks and will post links to my favorites here!

• Boyd Varty’s TedTalk about Ubuntu and what he learned from Nelson Mandela growing up on a South African safari
• TedTalk – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts
• Novelist Chimamanda Adichie TedTalk: The Danger of a Single Story
• All it takes is 10 mindful minutes: Andy Puddicombe

Websites:

• Quiet Revolution. Susan Cain is an expert on introverts. If you think you or your child is an introvert, there’s lots of good information here.As I come across articles and books that I think might be of interest, I’ll include them here.
• Create your family media plan using this tool from the American Academy of Pediatrics