Your authors at Our Everyday Parables are Valerie, Joanna, Karis, Karey, and Sarah. Below are some of their favorite kid lit and parenting resources. You can read more about the authors here.
Our Favorites For Local, Thrift, and Loan
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Valerie’s Favorites
- Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
- Videos: Trust-Based Relational Intervention: Intro Video in English and Intro Video in Spanish and The IDEAL Response Video. More resources can be find on their website. (Also Go Horned Frogs!)
Joanna’s Favorites
- Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
Karis’s Favorites
- The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
- The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family
- Are My Kids on Track?
- The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
- Outsmarting Worry (An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety)
- How to Be a Superhero Called Self-Control!: Super Powers to Help Younger Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses
- Podcast: Raising Boys and Girls
- Podcast: Connected Families
- Podcast: The Boy Mom
Karey’s Favorites
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
- No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
- The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
- Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life’s Biggest Yes