Healthy Parenting Resources

Hi folks,

I'd like to introduce this thread as a spot to post your favorite resources regarding parenting!

Anything you have found of value may be posted here via links to the sites, or by posting the names of books for example. Feel free to leave a personal review, or simply post the link or info for others to view.

I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that these resources will be coming from all of us, so what works for one may not work for another. I suggest you take what you like out of it and what you don't discard and move on to the next resource.

I hope we see lots of resources!

http://kidshealth.org/
Has links for parents, but also for kids and teens.

Today the member ECHOES said the following:

I just got this book and I love it, even only a few pages into it:
"Nurture the Nature" by Michael Gurian, a family therapist. It covers birth through 19 years and older, and encourages parents to really understand their child's/children's core personality.

Just wanted to add this to the resources!

One i would like to add would be www.babycenter.com

You can get information on everything from trying to conceive right through childhood!

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

This website has reviews for all sorts of videogames, movies, books, etc. and information about what ones are age-apropriate for your kids.

An article about spanking that will make you think:

http://www.slate.com/id/2200450/pagenum/all/#page_start

Thanks for all the suggestion everyone. Have you all seen http://www.uncommon-parenting.com/ (by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller) - it's seems quite new and it's interesting.

http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/paren...ips/index.html

This site seems to address a lot of issues and has a lot of information.

I wanted recommend the book titled, Five Love Languages by: Gary Chapman.

Everyone has a certain way that they feel most love. In this book, it identifies five love languages to truly satisfy another individual's love language. (even your child's main love language.) It also will include a fun quiz to identitify the individual's main love language. Please do enjoy! Let me know what you think.

Thanks for all the suggestion everyone.

Since I'm mom to a preschooler, I would like to add some preschool resources to this list. There is a website called AtoZTeacherStuff which is loaded with ideas for fun activities for young kids. Another one I like are these preschool games which my son loves playing.. he learns from them without realizing the fact that he's doing so! Then there's another site that goes by the name of First-School which helps me build up and plan my homeschooling lesson plans. Right from colors, shapes and seasons, to arts and crafts as well as other educational stuff, this one is a must-visit website.

Bully by none other than the g.o.a.t. aka Marshall Mathers.

(Who's Suge and Benzino? That'd be a dumb question to ask, parents, you the fact, you the resources, if you got nothing to show for, you'll be throwing your kids into the shark infested waters, as far as I'm concerned, a kid growing up to be a man with 100,000 dollars on his neck with no bodyguard is a great success in life, don't listen to me, ey. )

FightTheNewDrug.org

My country's Playboy wasn't as tasteful as Camille Paglia said it was like in the states, I don't know what it was like back in the 80s in my home country, there was an anti violent anime thing when I was little, my mother banned all the manga stuff. She wasn't a bright woman, a stay-at-home-mom, me and my brother got no Nintendo either. My brother was hiding this slightly naughty manga in the shed, there were couple of other distasteful adult picture books, how do I know that it was distasteful? That's a good question, I just knew. There was this other time when my dad and his friend was watching some VHS tapes, thinking that I was too little to care for 'women being tied up' in this period drama porn video,,,



And if you must know, my dad once caught me while I was doing the business, at least I wasn't doing it to an apple pie. I also remember my dad's gaze at my cousin, the most messed up things about this sexuality is the general idea of Japanese women, who allows their men's groping eyes or sometimes hands on another woman in a marital relationship, some online Q&A instructs poor wife to be a 'Japanese Wife' and those Senpai ladies want newly married clueless ladies to give oral or whatever, it's all weird. Have you ever heard of a thing called Daki-makura(hugging pillow)? I just want anyone with kids who's into Japanese stuff to be really really careful, google algorithm isn't always healthy for child brains, 50% of Russian young population is already at risk by this weeaboo stuff, if Adolf Hitler couldn't figure out this culture, but sided with Japanese Imperial Army back in the days,,, my point is that things this hard to figure out doesn't have any educational value, trying hard to claim 'I'm not a weeaboo' doesn't wash. Video games, J-pop music, it's all mind numbingly bad for human development, it's just my personal opinion.

And there's an old painting called 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' done by a great artist named Hokusai. So if your kids are into animes... These art is about taboo, Camille says, mayhaps, but only in the West. The sex-ed at home and school, mine wasn't healthy nor informed. I understand that it's not easy to implement political policies state/country wide, it was sad to find out Iceland wasn't doing as great as I thought they were doing about banning porn, and I've found the linked website.

I'm a boy so my education should've started with Michelangelo's statue of David. I've read only few stories from the FTND website, it looks convincing enough, it doesn't take words like 'rape culture' or the exact percentage of violence depicted in porn to know what a guy's mind go through, my suggested links offers different talking points.

Sorry to end this with more dirty thing, Japanese porn does this censoring by 'ethical committee' of some sorts, prostitution is illegal and school offers this uniform sex-ed program. People simply operate on different parameters but there may be something you could learn from. This is a country where a dress code is really strict, you don't see too many sexy outfit, it's just too much to explain, Hollywood has been obsessed with big boobs, we talk about pay grades, I just wanted to think about fakeness and 'alternative facts' tonight.

I don't know what the 'by-the-book' education is like, if you're from the states, that means you live in a country where citizens are allowed to do free schooling. The media may tell you that the country is lagging behind in education, kids misbehaving at school etc... There are liberty, choices and responsibilities. No one's drowning in privileges when it comes to parenting/education, does this sound about right to you?

'To Junior High, High School Students & Their Parents' by Jordan B Peterson

It's another New Year message guys, I haven't watched it yet, he looks so serious. This year, he dressed up for this occasion, I love the man, I'm sure he has an important message for everyone. I believe from my personal experience that learning about human rights as early as possible through proper educational materials are crucial for everyone's mental health and future of mankind.

'Bill of Rights Rap' by Shoeless Jeff and Scott Free

This was great and made me feel sad thinking about my country's constitution... *fake smile*

I've just finished watching the video,whoa, shocking! I'm kinda speechless, Professor Rinaldo Walcott reminded me of this young student who was attacking on Ben Shapiro's credentials in one of videos from some time ago, that was fun to watch but not this New Year message. Juvenile, and it's a will to power in the organizational structure, it's a shame that we need to ask our children to help clean up this mess...

Even though I'm childless and wifeless, this video asks me of a big moral responsibility with this information, I just hope as many people as possible to realize his life work before we lose any more freedom. I wasn't expecting this radicalization, I wonder what future psychologists would have to say about this time period.

Braving the rights does NOT right the world... A, B or C, none fits the trajectory, I'd say. Unreal.

'John Dewey's Philosophy of Education'

I'm not too familiar with it, but i like it. It's not too politicized as long as we think of it from academic angle, I've seen talks like 'is this progressive education working?' type of talk on youtube. My own parent's involvement in PTA was a joke, I hope y'all don't make the same mistakes, always do your due diligence. A big centralized state education system can make everyone go mad, that's the feel I get in my country and I wouldn't know what the underlying education philosophy really is based on..........

There're some more that I could say about my country. Ethnocentricism, I think the idea has always been around, and school kid suicide or bullying hasn't been solved, you could just say it's because of tribalism, these things are embedded in this man made/manufactured culture of mine. So if you saw the video, the radical and dangerous ideologies would give students and faculties ammunition to fight each other, Judeo-Christian nation should know better how wrong this picking-on-what-stands-out attitude is, and there are other related things that I like to mention, JPB used the word 'English Common Law', which my country doesn't have in our judicial system. Higher up in this court system, head judges are not supreme, they probably don't even know that they could overturn their own opinions, a few years ago, my government made this spineless/useless 'anti hate speech' law, there were no intelligent thought put into it, can anyone guess this analogy that I'm trying to draw here? I don't think anyone should be living under the laws that gives too much discretionary power to someone who could abuse it. The foundation of a great society is at stake, we're free to take a break but not indefinitely, being a natural-born-thinker that's what being conscious is about, best of luck!

So, what resource am I recommending here today? You guessed it, this will be a crazy man's social commentary just like yesterday. I think I didn't sleep because of the video on post #14. I got out of bed upset, was watching this crying little boy this morning at this apartment complex across my building, it houses bunch of middle class people I suppose, and he and his mom was driving off to somewhere, the mom looked care-free, the boy stopped nagging when mom was minding her own business, I thought it was excellent way to deal with little boy like that. 'Excellence', this human quality needs to be nurtured and noted on any social strata, we get to set things apart for right reasons, and if we don't have a point in arguing about them, we don't. And when we do, I believe it's best to use dialectic method to discuss and debate things with people.

The boy that I mentioned in previous paragraph probably is in the age between 2-4, it is a crucial stage in child development, or so I'm informed. It's all Piagetrian when I talk pseudointellectually about raising children and I think it's fine, there's always someone smarter than I, someone else's already taken so the lesson that my imaginary kids need to learn from me would be to do their own thinking, and have their own opinions, it is self-evident that people lead a miserable life if one choose to live by voicing someone else's opinion all the time, I'm sorry I kinda forgot what was upsetting me this morning.

Ohio-gozaimasu, this is Good Morning in translated Japanese, what this means is that when somebody asks how I say good morning in my mother tongue(*gag reflex* because I hate my real mother.), I could just answer that 'Well, I don't!'. All smiling, all American Ann Coulter, she would be my perfect mother... These greetings are the same thing as someone being upset for not being asked how they are, parents should teach things, the states shouldn't be compelling moral codes!

Thanks for reading.

'Picard's civil rights speech' @youtube

Metapsychology and applied human chemistry would go nicely with this teaching material. It's not diplomacy when you kids are small, remember/talk/imagine the first contact.

Ben Shapiro trashes John Lennon's "Imagine"

This is quite something. The song was okay for learning the very basic of English language at first, I admit I used to like it. Now I feel this commentary is just priceless.

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

I need to take the time to study this more, if school don't give your child the opportunity to read this, maybe parents can help learn this at home.

Ben Shapiro on Gay Marriage, Gun Control, and Piers Morgan by The Rubin Report

This is a superb interview, I agree with Mr.Shapiro almost 100%. Even the view on mentally ill population is probably fact based, I believe he speaks accurate history on most points. I do care about 'duty of care' in legal system, but not much else. At this point, my understanding of legal system could use a lot more education, 'Miss-ed' education or politics have been wreaking havoc everywhere! I'm just kiddin. (The video includes MH stigma alright, my personal take is that to argue on the existence of stigma is not productive. This gets awfully complicated with composition or division fallacies, I'm aware of the role of my emotions within my intellect, I'm getting better at things without arguing, smart, ha?)

We established this system before we became,,,irritable/stupid, get your desire when I retire.

Ben Shapiro - HOW SOCIAL LIBERALISM IS CORRUPTING OUR FUTURE
Jordan Peterson — How Pornography Affects on Young Men

These are very short video clips, the Peterson's piece is from my favorite interview, it's again from The Rubin Report. I didn't know the host was an atheist till I saw the interview on the first one. I would love to have a reasonable argument ready for my anti-porn stance one of these days...

Ben Shapiro: "I Don't Need A 7-Year Degree In Sociology To Know BS When I Hear It by The Daily Wire"

Sociology is not my favorite subject to learn about but to stop too much fallacious arguments in the world, I know I need to know more about it. What I take out of this video is people's blind trust in 'credentials', I don't believe everything what American Sleep Association tells us, d'you get what I mean? I'm past sarcasm, I wouldn't know what my decision/advice would be if I had a children going on to higher education. 'Peer' matters, talents could get killed by wrong thinking, sorry that I'm being cryptic here, it's just rambling...

Editing Again :
Having an extramarital affair like Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy admitted last year is bad, this reminds me of talk during election season where moms were tweeting saying, "How do I explain that Trump is now our president to our kids?". Now that I think about it, that's so silly that tweets like that have any significance at all.

"Jordan Peterson on Virtue Signaling"
"This Male virtue signalling makes me sick - Jordan Peterson"

The editing is not right on the first video and no bloody joke, I need to sort myself out. I was just thinking that virtue signaling is nothing new, I remember clearly how this cultural virtue was affecting me in the class room when I was little, and the worst outcome I can think of from my culture is Karōshi (overwork death). The buzzword isn't doing justice for the interview clips but I still find this VS when I accidentally click on overly left leaning youtube channels.

Male, female, both have been guilty of this, and any type of social media or electronic communication could be used for an outlet for such small dragons, it might add up though. Am I thinking of virtue? I can't be certain since I don't have Christian background, I been noticing anti-naturalism, danger of danger, folks. Some TED(x) talks videos are full of virtue signaling, I hope you or your kids aren't falling for those...

This collective unconsciousness that I been put through has probably been fueled by this postmodernism evilness, 'Small Ideas, and Big Think ', situation critical, I don't think there's no need to be afraid of Freudian theories, I would be learning and teaching GOOD stuff to kids, sound theories and inferences need no morals, I recommend kids and parents to watch 'virtue theory' on crash course philosophy on youtube, I don't understand why it had so many up votes.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.