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PARENTING RESOURCES

FREE PARENTING COURSE

A self paced online course that provides tools for behavior-change techniques.

Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing

UCSD MINDFULNESS COURSES

UCSD Center for Mindfulness offers a variety of programs for children, teens, parents and adults.

Youth, Family and Education Programs

PARENTING BOOKS

Dr. Alan Kazdin has published a number of helpful parenting books, including "The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child."

Dr. Daniel Siegel is a researcher and author whose has published a number of books focus on the developing brain. 

Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn assists the reader apply mindfulness practices to their lives and to enhance their parenting skills.

HELPFUL WEBSITES

Greater Good Science Center offers an online magazine with resources "for parents and families to help them foster qualities like gratitude, forgiveness, resilience, understanding, and generosity in themselves and their children." 

Child Mind Institute offers mindfulness and other resources for parents of children who have mental health or educational needs.

MINDFULNESS PRACTICES

Mindfulness for Teens and Adults:

Compassion It 

UCSD Center for Mindfulness 

Mindfulness for kids:

Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube

"What is really hard, and really AMAZING, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of BECOMING YOURSELF."- Anna Quindlen

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