Articles for Parents and Family Support Professionals

Parents as People

Samaya Darghouth El Moghrabi

• Why Is My Coffee Always Cold?

• Self-Care in Parenting: Taking Care of Yourself Means Taking Care of Your Kids

Jennifer Sanders

• Plug In Where It Counts: Simple Ways to Feel Better Mentally, Physically, and Socially
• Underused Strategies Moms Can Use to Support Mental Health

Parent Coaching

Gloria DeGaetano

• PCI Coaching Helps Parents Stay Informed and Inspired
• Certainly, PCI’s Coaching Process Brings Parents Positive Changes
• PCI Parent Coaching: Similarities to Business Coaching
• Cultural Maturity and PCI Parent Coaching
• Appreciative Inquiry: A Significant Tool for Effective Parent Coaching
• Parent Coaching—A Creative Re-Discovery Process
• Why Try Parent Coaching?
• Why Coaching by Phone?

Cradle to Beyond College

Valerie Ritchie

• Setting Boundaries Without Power Struggles: How Consistency Brings Calm and Trust

Anya Willis

• How Parents Can Help Their Children Cultivate Curiosity and Self-Motivated Learning

Julia Wilcox

• Transitioning Back to Routines
• Adding A Sibling to the Family Means Evolving as a Parent
• Why Handling Tantrums Starts with You, The Parent

Kathrin Shorr

• Don't Be Afraid to Parent

Jeyla Nasibova

• What Does It Take To Be Yourself?

Gloria DeGaetano

• An At-Home Activity That Keeps Your Kids Quiet and Safe—Without You!
• Six Truths About the "Slow" Brain
• An Essential Human Need for Parents and Kids: The Development of an Interior Life

Maria Sanders

• Inherent Resilience

Heba Fawzy

• The 3 × 5 Miraculous Minutes of the Day!

Barb Bushey

• Meeting Our Children's Needs Reduces Stress and Helps to Minimize Discipline Problems
• Please Put Down the Remote and Pick Up the Children's Books

Alice Hanscam

• Present…To Our Children, To Our Lives
• The Power of Pause: Transforming Relationships One Pause at a Time

Rhonda Moskowitz

• Successful Parent Conferences

Kay Kimball Gruder

• Dare to Share: Parenting Through Our Stories

Connie Hammer

• Intentional Parenting: Practical Planning for Productive Results

Jennifer Watanabe

• Is Everybody Getting Enough Sleep?
• Who Will You Invite to Your Child's Wedding?

Adrian Kalikow

• What Does It Mean to Be Happy?

Media/Digital Age Parenting Solutions

Gloria DeGaetano

• Parental Presence in a Digital Age
• Screen Time and Obesity
• Video Game Stimulation and the Growing Brain
• The Young Brain and The Screen Machine
• Parenting Today: The World Has Changed, Have We?
• Your Teen and Screen Machine Multi-Tasking
• Parenting in an Age of Identity Theft™
• Reading TV

Book Reviews

Gloria DeGaetano

• A Creator's Companion: A Handbook for the Practice of Creation by Liam Bowler
• More of Everything by Janie Reade
• The Tao of Inner Peace by Dr. Diane Dreher
• Autism Parenting: Strategies for a Positive School Experience by Connie Hammer, PCI Certified Parent Coach®
• Reset Your Child's Brain by Victoria L. Dunckley, MD
• Connection & Kindness by Erin Taylor
• The Co-Parents' Handbook by Karen Bonnell
• Lift by Robert E. Quinn
• Different Learners by Jane Healy
• So Sexy So Soon by Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne
• Diane Dreher's Your Personal Renaissance: 12 Steps to Finding Your Life's True Calling
• Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy by Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, and Katherine E. Buckley
• Comfortable Chaos by Carolyn Harvey and Beth Herrild

Sara Graybeal

• How to Talk to Your Kids About Poverty and Homelessness by Trish Allison

Christi Hurd

• Becoming the Parent You Like by Tierney Boggs

• Wired Child: Debunking Popular Technology Myths by Richard Freed, Ph.D.
• Hope and the Future by Charles M. Johnston, M.D.

Erin Taylor

• The Child Whisperer by Carol Tuttle

Kay Kimball Gruder

• College of the Overwhelmed by Richard Kadison and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

Erin O'Keefe

• The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World by Susan Linn

Margann Duke

• Making The Inevitable Impossible: Generation Text by Michael Osit