- Janet Lansbury: Elevating Childcare
- Magda Gerber: Seeing Babies with New Eyes
- Hand in Hand Parenting (Patty Wipfler)
- The Continuum Concept (Jean Liedloff)
- Aware Parenting Institute (Aletha Solter)
- Regarding Baby (Lisa Sunbury)
- Your Parenting Mojo (Jen Lumanlan)
- Happiness is Here
- Alice Miller
- Gordon Training International
- La Leche League
- KellyMom
- Project NoSpank
Recommended Resources
Education
- Alfie Kohn
- John Holt
- Freedom to Learn: Peter Gray
- Sir Ken Robinson
- American Institute for Learning and Human Development (Thomas Armstrong)
- David Sobel
- John Taylor Gatto
- Radical Eyes for Equity: A Critical Space – Writing by P.L. Thomas
- Carol Black
- I’m Unschooled. Yes, I Can Write
- Deborah Meier on Education
- Diane Ravitch’s blog
- Always Noticing and Wondering
Learning Resources
Math
- Natural Math
- Math for Love
- Good Problems (from Peter Liljedahl)
- Mathematics Centre
- Game About Squares
List of Schools
- Wonder Woods, Chicago, IL (0-12)
- Tallgrass Sudbury School, Riverside, IL
- Maplewood Child Development Center, Chicago, IL
- Prairie School of DuPage, Naperville, IL
- The Village Free School, Portland, OR
- Alder Commons, Portland, OR
- ALC Mosaic, Charlotte, NC
- Urban Academy Laboratory High School, New York, NY
- The Freedom Community School, Washington, DC
Trauma Organizations
- Child Trauma Academy
- Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium
(KI-TSRC) (Dr. Stephen Porges)
These have been my favorite resources for understanding psychology and improving my mental health.
- Janet Lansbury’s podcast, Unruffled – If you are familiar with reparenting, I found listening to this to be the best exercise in reparenting. Listen to this from the point of view of the child within you.
- Brad Reedy – The place to go if you really want to understand boundaries.
- The Holistic Psychologist – The place to go if you are looking for what healthy relationships can look like.
- Dr. Gabor Maté
- Dr. Stephen Porges