Parenting Resources

 

Parent Warmline

Need some answers? Parent Warmline can help. This is a free, non-medical, non-crisis resource for parents of young children. Parent Warmline will address issues such as temper tantrums, sleep disruptions, feeding/eating difficulties, sibling rivalry, parental stress, and requests for services or community resources. Call 612-813-6336.

 

Fun Recipes & Activities

Learn how to make goop, slime and more.  Click here for recipes.

 

Parenting Websites

  From Parents for Parents

 

 Staff Recommended Parenting Books

  • No, David Walsh, Ph.D

 

  • Parenting Our Children, Jean Illsley Clark and Connie Dawson

  • Kids Are Worth It, Barbara Coloroso

 

  • Your Child's Health, Barton D. Schmitt, M.D.

  • Kids, Money And Values, Patricia Schiff Estess & Irving Barocas

 

  • Children: The Challenge, Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D.

  • Sleepless In America, Mary Sheddy Kurcinka

  • Positive Discipline, Jane Nelson

  • Kids, Parents and Power Struggles-Winning for a Lifetime, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

  • Raising Your Spiriting Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

  • Kid Cooperation, Elizabeth Pantley

  • Touchpoints, T. Berry Brazelton

  • The Ten Commitments: Parenting with Purpose, Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller

  • Becoming the Parent  You Want to Be, Laura Davis and Janis Keyser

  • Growing Up Again:  Parenting Ourselves, Jean Illsley Clark and Connie Dawson