We carefully chose the resources we recommend to those who participate in Parent Education. All books and sites are in line with our values of building healthy attachment, parenting with intention and developing maturity in self and others.
Mental Health Resources
If you or someone you know need mental health support, we’ve compiled a list of local resources for you. Mental Health Resources Sheet
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline- Call 988
If you or someone you know has an emergency, please call 911.
Books
Parenting
- The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D
- The Yes Brain by Daniel Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D
- The Gift of Imperfect Parenting by Brene Brown
- Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies or Fat Envelopes by Dr. Madeline Levine
- The Price of Privilege by Dr. Madeline Levine
- The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go so Their Children Can Succeed by Jessica Lahey
- How To Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Marriage/Relationships
- Created for Connection by Dr. Sue Johnson
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson
- How We Love by Kay & Milan Yerkovich
- The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- The Path Between Us by Suzanne Stabile
Spirituality
- Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist
- The Best Yes by Lysa Terkeurst
- It’s Not Supposed To Be This Way by Lysa Terkeurst
- The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
- Jesus Calling by Sarah Young
- Praying the Scripture for your Teen by Jodie Berndt
Online Resources
- www.joystream.lifemodelworks.org
- www.thrivetoday.org
- www.brenebrown.com/
- www.ahaparenting.com/
- www.childmind.org/audience/for-families/
- https://biglifejournal.com/blogs/blog
Racial Reconciliation
Read
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to be White by Daniel Hill
- Across that Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and The Solutions We All Long For by Wayne Gordon and John M. Perkins
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- National Museum of African-American History & Culture
- Presbyterian Church Guide to Dismantling Structural Racism
Listen
Watch
- Selma
- 13th
- Just Mercy
- Amazing Grace
- Sesame Street Town Hall on Racism
- Juneteenth Episode of ABC’s Blackish
- 60 Minutes – Massacre of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
