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parent links and references

Provides information and a place to exchange ideas with other parents in the struggle to find more ways of insulating children from the more toxic aspects of our culture www.stoptheepidemic.com

Alfie Kohn is author of Punished by Rewards, Schools Our Children Deserve www.alfiekohn.org

National Middle Schools Association website; go to News and Views, Position Paper on curriculum integration for the rationale of our integrated curriculum http://nmsa.org

Article from The River Current, newsletter for the River School
Allowing Your Child to Take Responsibility

Recommended books for parents:

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child by Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.

The Primal Teen, What the New discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids, by Barbara Strauch

The Epidemic, The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children, by Robert Shaw, M.D.

Odd Girl Out, The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, by Rachel Simmons

Raising Cain, Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Girls will be Girls, Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters, by JoAnn Deak, Ph.D.

Raising Self-Reliant Children in an Self-Indulgent Age by H. Scott Glenn.