Humanistic Parenting
The Humanist approach to parenting is a compassionate and respectful approach to raising children. It is the application of Humanist values and principles to the job of parenting. The starting point of this approach to parenting is to respect your child for the individual they are. We treat young people the same way we treat all other humans: compassionately, ethically and responsibly. We recognize that our children are autonomous individuals. Our job is not to dictate their behavior, but rather to teach them how to make good decisions for themselves so that they can be successful in the world.
Here are books and programs that will help you become the parent you want to be.
This book is designed to help parents vaccinate their kids against bullies and other obnoxious petty people. By preparing for them in advance you can effectively inoculate yourself against the worst of their behavior. It’s based on behavioral conditioning techniques and will help you learn what exactly has to happen to make a bully stop.
This is a book that basically says – here are personal ethics, here is why they are important, and here is how you can apply them to your daily life and why doing so will help you live a happier more productive life. Great for parents to use to help talk to their kids about why ethics are important and how to integrate ethics into their decision making.
Comprehensive program – pay what you can afford. This program contains 2 1/2 hours of training videos, workbooks and worksheets that will help you and your child create a comprehensive strategy to deal effectively with the bullies and get them to stop.
The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More CompassionateThe Mindful Child by Susan Greenland is a book about meditation for children.Susan Kaiser Greenland, JD is a former corporate attorney who developed the Inner Kids mindful awareness program for children, teens and their families. Research on the Inner Kids elementary school program was conducted at the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA and is published in the Journal of Applied School Psychology. Read more [...]
The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old: Revised Edition
This is the excellent follow up to Dr. Karp's Happiest Baby on the Block. It's just as helpful and just as useful to help you understand the brain of your toddler so you can communicate with them more effectively.
It's based on evolutionary theory made easy to understand.Children between the ages of one and four go through four stages of “evolutionary” Read more [...]
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
It is not an understatement to say this book saved my husband and I's sanity during our son's first year. - Jennifer Hancock
In a innovative and thought-provoking reevaluation of early infancy, Dr. Karp blends modern science and ancient wisdom to prove that newborns are not fully ready for the world when they are born. Through his research and experience, he has developed four basic principles Read more [...]
How to talk to your child’s school about bullying so they will actually listen and help
This is a short e-book designed to help you learn the basics of what you should be doing to help make sure your child’s school takes your reports of bullying seriously. This e-book is ~4,000 words long and should take less than ½ hour to read. The purpose of this book is to give you detailed information on how to approach the school, who in the school can help and how to get the school to actually help you Read more [...]
Excellent book – must read for Humanist parents. Talks about raising children and lessons learned.
This is a great book. Even though it is geared towards non-religious parents, it still lays out the principles of Humanist parenting quite well and can provide you with helpful ideas on how to provide for the needs of your increasingly independant child.
Excellent book for learning specific ways you can encouraging thinking in your child. Very comprehensive to just about any situation you will find yourself in. I highly recommend this book.
This free program takes approximately 40 minutes to complete and includes downloadable documentation logs and a flow chart for how to stop bullying in different situations.