Super Parents Talk

BEYOND NATURE-DEFICIT DISORDER
It’s Time to Turn Consciousness into Action
By Richard Louv
Author of Last Child in The Woods
Got dirt? “In South Carolina, a truckload of dirt is the same price as a video game!” reports Norman McGee, a father in that state who bought a small pickup-load of dirt for his daughter and friends.
kids and nature […]

Handling a Crisis With Kids
By Lee Woodruff, author of In An Instant
“Tell the truth,” we always say to our kids when faced with their little transgressions, white lies or downright omissions of the facts. 
Yet when a bomb in
Iraq critically injured my husband, and my children needed some answers, I found myself in the difficult position […]

Younger Children’s Reaction to Death
by Charlotte M. Mathes, LCSW, Ph.D.
Author of And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart
Because children grieve differently from adults, they may appear not to be mourning at all. One adult client confessed her long held guilt that as a child, the day her sister died, she went to a neighbor’s to […]