Parenting and family stuff

good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.

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This Is the Way

Stephen O'Grady thisistheway.us

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Originator

originatorkids.com

Avni Patel Thompson

TableTopics Family - 135 Conversation Starter Cards for Family Game Night, Family Mealtime, Building Parent-child Relationships, and Family Bonding, Bond Together with Table Topics Game

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Let’s be open to letting go of cultural myths. We know that the benefits of teenage smartphones do not outweigh the risks and harms. There are thousands of reasons for buying a phone for your child, but there is only one reason to skip it: your child’s health and well-being. And that reason matters more than all the others.

Melanie Hempe • How to Delay the Age At Which Kids Get Smartphones

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Add to Cart: Books About Words That Aren't Dictionaries

Jennifer Shonkoff childhoodcurator.substack.com

Stuart Evans

The Fair Play Book | Fair Play Life

fairplaylife.com

Stuart Evans

For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Treat everyone with respect. Whatever you undertake, give it your best effort. You, and only you, are accountable for your actions.

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How to Raise an Adult — Julie Lythcott-Haims

Julie Lythcott-Haims julielythcotthaims.com

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Walter Isaacson on the link between suffering and greatness and those with happy childhoods: “We grow up with fewer demons but we grow up with less drive. We end being Boswell and not Johnson. We end up being the observer and not the doer. Respect those who are in the arena…” A few... See more

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