Recommended Readings

I wanted something pithy about the power of the written word, but you already know it, don’t you? Just the right reading at just the right moment…and life is never quite the same.

So welcome to a happily miscellaneous list of old, new, read-aloud, how-to writings for all ages and stages of life.
This is the brief stuff…the articles. Want the books? click here.

for nestlings

(…little ones)

• Life with little ones (Huffington Post)
• The importance of play in the preschool years (Slate)

for hatchlings

(…up through elementary school)

• Great Conversations: Kids, puberty and growing up
• Ethics for a Digital World

for little chicks

(…the tween years)

• Common Sense Media
• An open letter to 8th graders about college (Huffington Post)

for fledglings

(…teen years and beyond)

• Miss Representation: Helping girls and boys examine the portrayal of women by the media
• What happens to the teen brain when kids drink alcohol? (NPR)
• The importance of mono-tasking (APA)

for flight

(…for people & people-as-parents)

• Helium parenting (Huffington Post)