PARENT RESOURCES
We all need a helping hand once in a while, especially as parents. Here are some resources that are Poppy Preschool Approved.
Safe & Sound (National)
Empower Yolo (Local)
Yolo Crisis Nursery (Local)
Crisis Services/Help
Helpful Articles
Deborah J Stewart and Teach Preschool: www.teachpreschool.org
Davis Parent University Lecture Series- www.davisparentuniversity.com
Dr Laura Markham's aha parenting website- www.ahaparenting.com/ages-stages/preschoolers
Shopping for smart, confident, and courageous girls- www.amightygirl.com
Play Based Learning- Not Just Cute with Amanda Morgan https://notjustcute.com
Fun activities for kids- www.pagingfunmums.com
Play based learning- www.playbasedlearning.com.au
Parenting- www.janetlansbury.com
Play and learning ideas- www.letthechildrenplay.net
Freedom to learn (Peter Grey) - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-lear
Websites
Janet Landsbury - https://www.janetlansbury.com/podcast-audio/
Lenore Skenazy - https://letgrow.org/supervision-not-required-podcast/
www.flusterclux.com - Understanding anxiety -strategies for families to manage anxiety and big emotions.
Code Switch NPR - It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on.
Podcasts
Be sure to visit the Poppy Parent Library, located in room 5 on the bookshelf to the left as you walk into the room. Poppy parents may borrow any of a number of helpful books on parenting and child development from the Library. Many of the books listed below are in our library!
Anti Bias Curriculum, Tools for Empowering Young Children, NAEYC Publication. Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L., Your Three Year Old. Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L., Your Four Year Old.
Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L., Your Five Year Old.
Bos, Bev, Before the Basics.
Bos, Bev, Together We’re Better.
Brazelton, T. Berry, M.D., Toddlers and Parents, Delta Pub., N.Y., 1974.
Bronson, PO, and Merryman, Ashley, Nurtureshock
Chapter three on Race https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RrnAuFORSMK0lqO78ma4N9GtRuSgJyT3/view
Bredekamp, Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs, NAEYC.
Briggs, Dorothy, Your Child’s Self-Esteem.
Cherry, Claire – Many books, all are good!
Dreikurs, Rudolf, Children the Challenge.
Elkind, David, The Hurried Child.
Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, Siblings Without Rivalry.
Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk.
Fraiberg, Selma, The Magic Years, Scribner’s, 1959.
Galambos, Jeanette, A Guide to Discipline, Nat’l Assoc. for Education of Young Children, 1969.
Le Shan, Eda, When Your Child Drives You Crazy, St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
MacKenzie, Rob, Setting Limits, Prima Pub.
Miller, Karen, Ages and Stages.
Miller, Karen, More Things to do with Toddlers & Twos.
Miller, Karen, Things to do with Toddlers & Twos.
Nelson, Jane, Positive Discipline A-Z, Prima Pub.
Nelson, Jane, Positive Discipline, Ballantine.
Platt, John, Life in Family Zoo.
Read, Katherine, The Nursery School: A Human Relationship Laboratory, W.B. Saunders Co., 1969.
Taylor, Katherine Whiteside, Parent Cooperative Nursery Schools, Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity, N.Y., N.Y.
White, Burton L., A Parent’s Guide to the First Three Years, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.Y.,1975.
