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Past Show: Teaching Character and Values
Listen to the show, which aired February 15th at 10:00 a.m. Note: This is a large audio file (14 MB or so) and may take a few minutes to download, depending on your connection speed and player settings.
If you don't want to listen to the whole show, we have made audio excerpts from the show available as well.
Special Guest: Dr. Harriet Heath - author of "Using Your Values to Raise Your Child to Be an Adult You Admire" and a Content Advisor for Kids These Days!
Featured Book: Using Your Values To Raise Your Child To Be An Adult You Admire
Who's giving your child their values - you or today’s bizarre pop culture? Join us on the next Kids These Days! as we discuss ways to develop character and instill positive values in our preteens and teens in the midst of a flood of confusing and often destructive images and ideals put forth by today’s society.
Guest Dr. Harriet Heath will talk with Alaskans about how we can all draw upon our own set of personal, religious and/or cultural values to raise our children to become adults we admire. By establishing and nurturing a clear set of values and a positive culture within our homes and communities, we can simplify our discipline efforts, encourage and reinforce positive behavior in our youth, and create an environment in which our children will be able to grow into healthy, successful adults.
Click on the links below to view articles, books, web links and other resources that relate to this month's topic. In addition, be sure to visit our Alaska Native Parenting Resources page, which contains a variety of materials related to teaching character and values.
Preliminary Readings for Dialogues and Socratic Seminars
- Preliminary Group activities for Dialogues and Seminars
Research and Fact Sheets
Programs and Curricula
Media
Therapeutic Resources
- www.akinfo.org -
www.akinfo.org
This website contains a statewide directory of Alaskan human services providers, searchable by category or by borough/region.
- Alaska Health Organizations -
www.theagapecenter.com
- Parenting Resources and Information Sites -
The following are some favorite parenting sites, and there are new ones daily. They are a wonderful resource for parenting tips and can help parents when they are feeling all alone as parents.
Parenttime
www.parenttime.com
Currently, there are chats in the site for a variety of different parent interests, including a teen chat. This joint venture between Colgate-Palmolive and Time Warner even has a nurse midwife, behavioral specialist (counselor), family therapist, an ob-gyn and a nutritionist.
Mom and Pop Get Wired
www.mompop.com
This site bills itself as the “hippest” parenting site. It's joined forces with Yahoo! to bring parents the latest news stories of interest to parents, in addition to live chats and lots of discussion groups, The site offers a special 'zine just for frustrated parent authors.
Parent Soup
www.parentsoup.com
With its live chats and terrific selection of discussion groups, you’ll find information about special parenting situations as well as the basics. You can contact experts on discussion boards in its Q & A section or sift through the archived questions on pediatrics, family counseling, nutrition, colleges, and activities for tots. The nutritionist not only answers questions about how to eat right, but also how to handle the preferences of picky eaters. There’s also lots of information on parent self-care topics like marriage, dealing with a dysfunctional family, depression and marriage, or finding a great book to read or vacation to take.
Foster Parent Community
www.fosterparents.com
One of the most informative foster parenting sites with links, resources and information by state and country. It has adoption information too, as well as grandparents raising grandchildren. In addition to great articles, the site has a chat channel, where foster parents and others can chat with each other, live.
ParentsPlace.com
www.parentsplace.com
ParentsPlace has over 500,000 visitors a month with 250 separate discussion boards. At least four new articles added daily to the home page. A husband/wife team run the site from their home, assisted by seven other parents from around the U.S.
Parenting on the Web
www.geocities.com/heartland/9530
At this site parents review other sites and resources for parents on the Web. The reviews tend to be thoughtful and relevant
Steve and Ruth Bennett's Family Surf Board
www.familysurf.com
The site contains recommended websites for kids and the children's Internet Activity Center. The host also has a column he writes for Cleveland Parent about parenting challenges in this technological age.
Multimedia Mom
www.multimediamom.org
Parents and educators join to monthly review and evaluate children’s media "with a keen eye to issues of gender, culture and violence, and are very choosy about what [they] approve."
CD-ROM Mom
www.cd-mom.com
This site shares information about multimedia and computer activities. The site is "designed to bring the family together in activity, education and fun[.] . . . CD-ROM Mom is a place where appropriate technology and meaningful content meet—bringing us to a greater understanding of ourselves, our families, our communities, our world."
Net-mom
www.netmom.com
One of the most famous and successful Internet moms, Jean Armour Polly, also a librarian, hosts this site. She is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book The Internet Kids Yellow Pages, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill ($19.95 ISBN 007-882-197-5). Her newly updated and expanded edition, The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages was recently released. Jean was one of the first two women elected to the Internet Society Board of Trustees, the most prestigious organization in the Internet industry.
Internet Mom
www.familypc.com
Robin Raskin, also the editor-in-chief of Family PC magazine is “Internet Mom.” Her online columns on the trials and tribulations of raising kids in this computer age are extraordinary.
- Careline -
A statewide toll free crisis hotline and member of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network and the National Hopeline Network.
Careline
Calls are answered by highly trained Alaska volunteers and staff based in Fairbanks.
Toll-free in Alaska 1-877-266-4357 (HELP)
Fairbanks 452-4357 (HELP)
Alaska's statewide hotline is staffed by Alaskans for Alaskans from 6 to 11 p.m. weekdays, and overnights on Friday and Saturday. During other hours, calls areautomatically referred to the Hopeline National Network, 1-800-SUICIDE.
Offers immediate help, 24-hours per day, 365 days per year.
Provides crisis intervention.
Interacts with callers in a respectful and empowering manner.
Listens in a non-judgmental way.
Provides suicide prevention to those who are considering suicide.
Maintains caller anonymity.
Provides information to those who are concerned about someone else.
- Your School Counselor - Students, if you need to speak to someone on campus, visit and talk with your school counselor.
Organization Web Sites
Featured Folks
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