This page is dedicated to providing meaningful evidence based resources for parents hoping to raise emotionally healthy children. Topics and themes will include (but are not limited to) anxiety, body image, bullying, depression, empathy, emotional health, growth mindset, and resilience.
ANXIETY: IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON MENTAL HEALTH IN CHILDREN
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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt argues that the sharp rise in youth anxiety and depression since the early 2010s is a result of the widespread shift from a "play-based childhood" to a "phone-based childhood," characterized by too much screen time and social media. The book documents how this "great rewiring" of childhood, marked by the digital age, has led to harms like social and sleep deprivation. Haidt provides science-backed solutions and a call to action for parents, schools, and governments to reestablish healthy childhoods through increased real-world play, delayed smartphone access, and phone-free schools
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PARENTING
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BELONGING
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BODY IMAGE
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BOOK: Mothers, Daughters & Body Image
When women are told that what is important about us is how we look, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to feel comfortable with our appearance and how we feel about our bodies. We are told, over and over—if we just lost weight, fit into those old jeans, or into a new smaller pair—we will be happier and feel better about ourselves. The truth is, so many women despise their appearance, weight, and shape, that experts who study women’s body image now consider this feeling to be normal. But it does not have to be that way. It is possible for us as women to love ourselves, our bodies, as we are. We need a new story about what it means to be a woman in this world. Based on her original research, Hillary L McBride shares the true stories of young women, and their mothers, and provides unique insights into how our relationships with our bodies are shaped by what we see around us and the specific things we can do to have healthier relationships with our appearance, and all the other parts of ourselves that make us women. In Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image McBride tells her own story of recovery from an eating disorder, and how her struggles led her to dream of a new vision for womanhood—from one without body shame, negative comparisons, or insecurities, to one of freedom, connection, and acceptance. |
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EMPATHY
LISTENING
PARENTING WITH HEART
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Parents want to be the best person they can for their children, but much of the time they may feel like giraffes on ice--clumsy, unprepared, and in imminent danger of going down. The good news is, our children don't need perfect parents. They need authentic, fully-hearted, relationally engaged parents who can mess up and move on more than parents who always get it right.
In this freeing book, respected therapists and bestselling authors Stephen James and Chip Dodd invite parents to let go of perfectionism and micromanaging as they learn to parent from a place of emotional honesty and intimacy. Through their clinical experience and relatable true stories, they show parents that raising children to become capable, loving, and wise-hearted adults is far more about accepting our flaws than projecting an impossible standard to our children that we already know we can't live up to. Parents will learn how to resolve issues from their own childhoods, tune into their feelings and the emotions of their children, and be present with their families through both the best and worst of circumstances. |
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RAISING BOYS
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A boy’s endless imagination, hunger for adventure, and passionate spirit are matched only by his deep desire to be affirmed, esteemed, and loved.
Yet over the past few decades, our culture has adopted a model of parenting and educating children that doesn’t affirm, celebrate, nurture, or embrace a boy’s wildness but rather seeks to tame it. As a result, many moms and dads find themselves frustrated, confused, and wearied by their sons’ behavior. The truth is, boys don’t need to be tamed―they need to be understood, loved, challenged, and encouraged. Based on clinical research and filled with practical tips and suggestions, therapists Stephen James and David Thomas give fresh insight and much-needed encouragement on the road to raising boys by talking about:
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