All They Really Need
The Book
About the Authors
Resources
Discussion groups
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The Book
About the Authors
Resources
Discussion groups
Contact
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All They Really Need
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 1:
Where Seeds Are Sown
Downloads (PDF):
“BASIC” Compassion
Meeting Needs
Additional Resources:
Mate, Gabor, and Gordon Neufeld. Hold on to your kids: Why parents need to matter more than peers. 3rd ed. Toronto: Vintage Books Canada, 2013.
Faber, Adele, and Mazlish, Elaine. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. 30th Anniversary Edition. New York: Scribner, 2019.
Rosenberg, Marshall B. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. 6th Ed. Encinitas, CA: PuddleDancer Press, 2003.
Coloroso, Barbara. Kids are worth it: Raising resilient, responsible, compassionate kids. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2010.
Kolari, Jennifer. Connected parenting: How to raise a great kid. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2010.
Chapter 2:
Eat What Your Mama Made You
Downloads (PDF):
Nutrition Values through Stages of Growth and Development
First Solid Foods
Additional Resources:
Satter, Ellyn. Child of mine: Feeding with love and good sense. Palo Alto, CA: Bull, 2000.
Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An eater’s manifesto. Toronto: Penguin Books, 2009.
Chapter 3:
Healthy Nutrients for Healthy Growth
Downloads (PDF):
Bone Broth
Prepping Beans from Scratch
Yogurt and Kombucha
Meal and Snack Ideas
Additional Resources:
Nestle, Marion. What to eat. New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Chapter 4:
Stress, Sleep, Movement, Nature
Downloads (PDF):
Movement Reflection
A Good Night’s Sleep
Sunscreen and Bug Dope
First Aid Kit Checklist
What Can I Control?
Additional Resources:
Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. New York: Algonquin Books, 2006.
Chapter 5:
Getting Sick Well
Downloads (PDF):
When to Worry
Magic Socks
Herbal Magic
Additional Resources:
E-learning course: “Kid’s Wellness, Naturally”
Podcast: “Raising Kids, Naturally.”
Thomas, Paul, and Jennifer Margulis. The vaccine-friendly plan: Dr. Paul’s safe and effective approach to immunity and health-from pregnancy through your child’s Teen Years. New York: Ballantine Books, 2016.
Press This Point
acupressure resources
Chapter 6:
Raising Future Adults
Downloads (PDF):
Household Contributions
OARS
Making a Plan for Advocacy
Additional Resources:
Skenazy, Lenore. Free-range kids: How parents and teachers can let go and let grow. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass, 2021.
Oluo, Ijeoma. So you want to talk about race. New York: Seal Press, 2019.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to raise an antiracist. New York: One World, 2023.
Harris, Robie H. and Emberley, Michael:
It’s not the stork!: A book about girls, boys, babies, bodies, families, and friends. Toronto: Penguin, 2008.
It’s so amazing!: A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families. Toronto: Penguin, 2014.
It’s perfectly normal: Changing Bodies, growing up, sex, gender, and sexual health. Toronto: Penguin, 2021.
Teaching Sexual Health
Answer, Rutgers
The Conscious Kid
Chapter 7:
Swimming in a Toxic Sea
Downloads (PDF):
Values to Promote Planetary Health
Gentle Detoxification
Additional Resources:
We Eat Responsibly
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Lazarovic, Sarah. A bunch of pretty things I did not buy. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014.
Story of Stuff
Clean Clothes Campaign
The True Cost |
Project Drawdown
and
Project Regeneration
Global Footprint Network
Kelsey, Elin. Hope matters: Why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2020.
Chapter 8:
Fill Your Own Bucket
Downloads (PDF):
Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
The Elastic, The Table and The Box
Navigating Divorce or Separation
Additional Resources:
Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Wherever you go, there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life. 30th Anniversary ed. Hachette Go, 2023.
Kabat-Zinn, Myla, and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Everyday blessings: The inner work of Mindful Parenting. New York: Hachette Books, 2014.
The Gottman Institute
Franco, Marisa G. Platonic: How the science of attachment can help you make--and keep-- friends. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2022.