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Past Show: Raising Assertive Children
Listen to the show, which aired January 18th at 10:00 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (13 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings.
Don't want to listen to the whole show? Listen to selected excerpts from the show
Special Guest: Dr. Chuck Smith - Professor and State Extension Specialist in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University.
Featured Book: Raising Courageous Kids: Eight Steps to Practical Heroism
The challenge of parenting children today has increased as the strength of our Authoritative Communities (i.e. families, churches, youth agencies like YMCA, Tribal Elders) has been weakened by societal changes. At the same time, the influence of other forces (which have no moral or nurturing objective) such as the “market” has increased. As a result, the indicators of youth well-being are reflecting a decline in children’s mental health, and incidents of school-related bullying and violence and the helplessness we might feel about that can send chills up our spine.
Nonetheless, there are those families (and other adult mentors) among us who are able to nurture in our young people the values and skills that enable resiliency, acts of courage and an empowered approach to relationships. Dr. Chuck Smith, author of “Raising Courageous Kids” will be our guest to share specific strategies we can use to insure our child is neither a victim or a bully, but is able to live assertively and even act with moral courage when he or she walks out the front door on his or her own in the morning. We will also be looking at what we can do in our diverse cultures to strengthen our "authoritative communities."
Preliminary Readings for Dialogues and Socratic Seminars
- Preliminary Group activities for Dialogues and Seminars
Research and Fact Sheets
Programs and Curricula
Media
Therapeutic Resources
- www.akinfo.org -
www.akinfo.org
This website contains a statewide directory of Alaskan human services providers, searchable by category or by borough/region.
- Alaska Health Organizations -
www.theagapecenter.com
- Parenting Resources and Information Sites -
The following are some favorite parenting sites, and there are new ones daily. They are a wonderful resource for parenting tips and can help parents when they are feeling all alone as parents.
Parenttime
www.parenttime.com
Currently, there are chats in the site for a variety of different parent interests, including a teen chat. This joint venture between Colgate-Palmolive and Time Warner even has a nurse midwife, behavioral specialist (counselor), family therapist, an ob-gyn and a nutritionist.
Mom and Pop Get Wired
www.mompop.com
This site bills itself as the “hippest” parenting site. It's joined forces with Yahoo! to bring parents the latest news stories of interest to parents, in addition to live chats and lots of discussion groups, The site offers a special 'zine just for frustrated parent authors.
Parent Soup
www.parentsoup.com
With its live chats and terrific selection of discussion groups, you’ll find information about special parenting situations as well as the basics. You can contact experts on discussion boards in its Q & A section or sift through the archived questions on pediatrics, family counseling, nutrition, colleges, and activities for tots. The nutritionist not only answers questions about how to eat right, but also how to handle the preferences of picky eaters. There’s also lots of information on parent self-care topics like marriage, dealing with a dysfunctional family, depression and marriage, or finding a great book to read or vacation to take.
Foster Parent Community
www.fosterparents.com
One of the most informative foster parenting sites with links, resources and information by state and country. It has adoption information too, as well as grandparents raising grandchildren. In addition to great articles, the site has a chat channel, where foster parents and others can chat with each other, live.
ParentsPlace.com
www.parentsplace.com
ParentsPlace has over 500,000 visitors a month with 250 separate discussion boards. At least four new articles added daily to the home page. A husband/wife team run the site from their home, assisted by seven other parents from around the U.S.
Parenting on the Web
www.geocities.com/heartland/9530
At this site parents review other sites and resources for parents on the Web. The reviews tend to be thoughtful and relevant
Steve and Ruth Bennett's Family Surf Board
www.familysurf.com
The site contains recommended websites for kids and the children's Internet Activity Center. The host also has a column he writes for Cleveland Parent about parenting challenges in this technological age.
Multimedia Mom
www.multimediamom.org
Parents and educators join to monthly review and evaluate children’s media "with a keen eye to issues of gender, culture and violence, and are very choosy about what [they] approve."
CD-ROM Mom
www.cd-mom.com
This site shares information about multimedia and computer activities. The site is "designed to bring the family together in activity, education and fun[.] . . . CD-ROM Mom is a place where appropriate technology and meaningful content meet—bringing us to a greater understanding of ourselves, our families, our communities, our world."
Net-mom
www.netmom.com
One of the most famous and successful Internet moms, Jean Armour Polly, also a librarian, hosts this site. She is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book The Internet Kids Yellow Pages, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill ($19.95 ISBN 007-882-197-5). Her newly updated and expanded edition, The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages was recently released. Jean was one of the first two women elected to the Internet Society Board of Trustees, the most prestigious organization in the Internet industry.
Internet Mom
www.familypc.com
Robin Raskin, also the editor-in-chief of Family PC magazine is “Internet Mom.” Her online columns on the trials and tribulations of raising kids in this computer age are extraordinary.
- Careline -
A statewide toll free crisis hotline and member of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network and the National Hopeline Network.
Careline
Calls are answered by highly trained Alaska volunteers and staff based in Fairbanks.
Toll-free in Alaska 1-877-266-4357 (HELP)
Fairbanks 452-4357 (HELP)
Alaska's statewide hotline is staffed by Alaskans for Alaskans from 6 to 11 p.m. weekdays, and overnights on Friday and Saturday. During other hours, calls areautomatically referred to the Hopeline National Network, 1-800-SUICIDE.
Offers immediate help, 24-hours per day, 365 days per year.
Provides crisis intervention.
Interacts with callers in a respectful and empowering manner.
Listens in a non-judgmental way.
Provides suicide prevention to those who are considering suicide.
Maintains caller anonymity.
Provides information to those who are concerned about someone else.
- Your School Counselor - Students, if you need to speak to someone on campus, visit and talk with your school counselor.
Organization Web Sites
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