Parenting Resources
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood states that their mission is “to support parents’ efforts to raise healthy families by limiting commercial access to children and ending the exploitive practice of child-targeted marketing.” This site lists helpful books, other websites, and additional helpful information.
Common Sense Media is a non-profit organization that provides independent reviews, age ratings, and other information about all types of media related to children including movies, games, TV shows, music, and phone apps. A great resource, and you can also search for specific suggestions for different ages.
Family Matters, as their website notes, is a free, family workshop series designed to promote healthy parent-child relationships by providing participants with current information on the science and practice of effective parenting.
Lumosity is an online brain-training program that can provide interactive, neuropsychological training programs that track your improvement over time. This website has generated research suggesting neuropsychological benefits in areas such as memory span, executive function, arithmetic reasoning and grammatical reasoning for students ages 6 to 18. Lumosity has worked with over 36 universities and produced 9 peer-reviewed studies supporting this unique neuropsychological approach. These neuropsychological exercises are available in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese.
Neuroscience for Kids is an innovative, multilingual site maintained by Dr. Eric Chudler, providing a wide range of fun and creative resources for children and teachers about neuroscience.
Parenting Beyond Belief, a valuable resource for parents who wish to raise their children ethically and compassionately but without formal religious structures. In an era of acrimonious debates between atheists/agnostics and religious believers, PBB offers a compassionate and practical approach to being non-religious.
SpaceMath@NASA is a fun and innovative site, introducing children of all ages to the use of math in contemporary scientific discoveries and space exploration.
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted: SENG describes their mission as empowering families and communities to guide gifted and talented individuals to reach their goals: intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
Common Sense Media is a non-profit organization that provides independent reviews, age ratings, and other information about all types of media related to children including movies, games, TV shows, music, and phone apps. A great resource, and you can also search for specific suggestions for different ages.
Family Matters, as their website notes, is a free, family workshop series designed to promote healthy parent-child relationships by providing participants with current information on the science and practice of effective parenting.
Lumosity is an online brain-training program that can provide interactive, neuropsychological training programs that track your improvement over time. This website has generated research suggesting neuropsychological benefits in areas such as memory span, executive function, arithmetic reasoning and grammatical reasoning for students ages 6 to 18. Lumosity has worked with over 36 universities and produced 9 peer-reviewed studies supporting this unique neuropsychological approach. These neuropsychological exercises are available in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese.
Neuroscience for Kids is an innovative, multilingual site maintained by Dr. Eric Chudler, providing a wide range of fun and creative resources for children and teachers about neuroscience.
Parenting Beyond Belief, a valuable resource for parents who wish to raise their children ethically and compassionately but without formal religious structures. In an era of acrimonious debates between atheists/agnostics and religious believers, PBB offers a compassionate and practical approach to being non-religious.
SpaceMath@NASA is a fun and innovative site, introducing children of all ages to the use of math in contemporary scientific discoveries and space exploration.
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted: SENG describes their mission as empowering families and communities to guide gifted and talented individuals to reach their goals: intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
