Resources
Consultations
Need private coaching/consultation on sleeping, eating, breastfeeding, behaviour issues? We can help!
We provide email, telephone or in-person, private, confidential consultations on any parenting or family issue. Our fee is $75.00 for a 30 minute telephone consultation, $150.00 for a 60 minute telephone or email consulation or $199.00 for a two-hour in-person consultation. For inquiries please contact
Judy Arnall, B.A., Author jarnall@shaw.ca (403) 714-6766
Cathie Pelly, C.C.F.E., cpelly@telus.net (403) 225-1350
Parenting Classes
P.E.T. Course Information Parent Effectiveness Training is the most researched, evidence based, best practices, model for raising responsible, caring, and respectful children of all ages. The P.E.T. course is the grandfather of most parenting programs, and conflict resolution courses, presently offered at universities and colleges around the world. Attachment between parent and child is enhanced by learning the skills in this 8 week course. P.E.T. provides families with confidence, healthy self esteem, emotional intelligence, open communication, problem solving skills, assertiveness, empathy and increased co-operation in their lives together. For parents of children ages 4-19 years.
NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION is another great course based on some principles of Parent Effectiveness Training. For parents of children 4-19 years.
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE by Jane Nelson, is a parenting course that is non-punitive and attachment parenting oriented. For parents of children 0-19 years.
TERRIFIC TODDLERS by Alberta Health Services is a parenting course that is respectful, attachment oriented and nurturing. For parents of children ages 1-4 years.
Attachment Parenting Your Baby, Toddler or Preschooler - Books
- Attachment Parenting, Katie Allison Granju and Betsy Kennedy
- Attached at the Heart, Barb Nicholson and Lysa Parker
- Discipline Without Distress: 135 tools for raising caring, responsible children without time-out, spanking, punishment or bribery, Judy Arnall
- Why Love Matters, Sue Gerhardt
- Natural Childhood, John Thomson
- The Baby Book, Dr. William Sears and Martha Sears
- The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, La Leche League International
- Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, La Leche League International
- Adventures In Tandem Nursing, Hilary Flower
- The Emotional Life of the Toddler, Lieberman
- The Family Bed, by Tine Thevenin
- Nightime Parenting, Dr. William Sears
- The Emotional Life of the Toddler,
- The No-Cry Sleep Solution, by Elizabeth Pantley
- The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers, by Elizabeth Pantley
- The Continuum Concept, by Jean Liedloff
- The Magical Child, Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Your Baby and Child, Penelope Leach
- Childcare and The Growth of Love, John Bowlby
- A Simple Gift: Comforting Your Baby, Video
- Parenting The Fussy Baby and High Need Child, Dr. William Sears
- The Baby Book: Everything You Need To Know About Your Baby From Birth To Age Two. Dr. William Sears
- Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape The Way We Parent, by Meredith Small.
- Bonding: Building the Foundations of Secure Attachment and Independence, Marshall Klaus
- The Vital Touch: How Intimate Contact with your baby leads to happier, healthier development. Heller, Sharon
- Giving the love that heals: A guide for parents, Hendrix, Harville, and Helen Hunt
- The Complete Books of Christian Parenting and Child Care: A Medical and Moral Guide to Raising Children. Sears, William M. and Martha Sears
- A Secure Base, John Bowlby
- Children First: What our society must do, and is not doing, for our children today , Penelope Leach
Attachment Parenting Your Older Child - DVDs
Attachment Parenting Your Older Child - Books
Healthy Self-Esteem
- Your Child's Self Esteem, by Dorothy Corkille
Briggs
- Self Esteem: A Family Affair, by Jean Illsley Clarke
- The Magic Of Encouragement: Nurturing Your Child’s Self Esteem, by Stephanie Marston
- Connections: The Threads that Strengthen Families, by Jean Illsley Clarke
- Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters, Virginia Beane Rutter
- Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives, John Nikkah
- Raising Cain: Protecting The Emotional Life of Boys, Dan Kindlon, PHD and Michael Thompson, PHD
- The Birth Order Book, by Dr. Kevin Leman
- Building Moral Intelligence, by Michelle Borba PHD
Communication
- Parent Effectiveness Training, by Thomas Gordon
- Kids Are Worth It, by Barbara Coloroso
- Active Parenting, by Michael Popkin
- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen, and How To Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Matter, by Gordon Neufeld PHD and Gabor Mate, MD
- Dealing With Disappointment, by Elizabeth Crary
Discipline and Behaviour
- Discipline Without Distress: 135 tools for raising caring, responsible children without time-out, spanking, punishment or bribery, by Judy Arnall
- Time-Out For Parents, Cheri Huber
- Teaching Children Self Discipline, by Dr. Thomas Gordon
- Pick Up Your Socks! And Other Skills Growing Children Need, by Elizabeth Crary
- Without Spanking or Spoiling, by Elizabeth Crary
- For Your Own Good, Alice Miller
- Parents, Please Don't Sit On Your Kids: A , by Clare Cherry
- Punished by Rewards, by Alfie Kohn
- Between Parent And Child, by Haim Ginott
- Raising Self Reliant Children In a Self Indulgent World, By Stephen Glenn
- Kids, Parents and Power Struggles, by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
- Time-In Parenting, by Otto Weininger, PHD
- Positive Discipline Series, by Jane Nelson and Cheryl Erwin
Education
- Beyond Dolls and Guns, by Susan Hoy Crawford
- Miseducation, by David Elkind
- How Children Learn, by John Holt
- Teach Your Own, by John Holt
- Learning All The Time, by John Holt
- Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian
- The Magic Years, by Selma Fraiberg
- No Contest: The Case Against Competition, by David Elkind
- Homeschooling For Excellence, by David and Mikki Colfax
- Families Matter: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, By David Guterson
- 7 Kinds of Smarts: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences, by Thomas Armstrong
- In Their Own Way, by Thomas Armstrong
Child Development
- Raising Your Spirited Child, by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
- The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon, by David Elkind
- Steps and Stages, Holly Bennett, and T. Pittman
- Nurture By Nature, by Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger
- You Make The Difference, Ayala Mandson
- The First Years Last Forever, Video
- Child Behaviour, The Gesell Institute
- The Family Virtues Guide, by Linda Popov
- Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
Challenges of Parenting
- Loving Each One Best, Nancy Samalin
- Welcome to Grandparenting, Michele Johnston
- Love Her As She Is, Patricia Morgan
- Why Parents Disagree, by Dr. Ron Taffel
- Speaking Of Sex, by Meg Hinckly
- Children: The Challenge, by Rudolf Dreikurs
- Love and Anger: A Parental Dilemma, by Nancy Samalin and C. Whitney
- Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
- Mom Management, by Tracy Lyn Moland
- Sequencing, by Arlie Hothschild
- Siblings Without Rivalry, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- When Anger Hurts Your Kids, by M. McKay, P. Fanning, K. Paleg, and D. Landis
- The Explosive Child, by Ross Greene
- The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life, Harriet Lerner Goldhor
- Speaking of Sex: Are Your Ready To Answer The Questions Your Kids Will Ask?, Meg Hickling
Magazines
Mothering Magazine
Compleat Mother
New Beginnings
Natural Parent
Breast and Belly
Hip Mama
The Mother is Me
Today’s Parent
Organizations
Attachment Parenting International
Parent Effectiveness Training Organization
La Leche League International
I Am Your Child Foundation
Invest in Kids
Child and Family Canada
The Natural Child
Attachment Parenting Books for Children
Our Attachment
Parenting Organization Encourages the following:
- Making commitments to both marriage and
quantity-time parenting.
- Freely giving time and attention to get to know and understand our children.
- Mutual respect between parent and child.
- Empathic Parenting rather than Calendar Parenting style.
- Responding to child's expressed and hidden needs, while meeting parents' needs.
- Accepting the child's own readiness for independence.
- Practicing non-violent, non-punitive discipline that connects parent and child.
- Long-term breastfeeding if possible, and child-led weaning.
- Responding to a child’s distress when upset, sick, or hurt.
- Flexible sleeping arrangements and night-time parenting.
- Traveling and recreation as a family unit.
- Communication that connects relationships.
- Fun, play, learning and laughing in the family relationship.
- Physical non-sexual closeness that respects personal boundaries.
- Attachment Education as much as possible in the public system, private system or at home.
We do not pretend to be parenting experts. However, we believe that most parents, given some knowledge of child development, intuitively know what their children need, and how best to meet those needs. We provide a supportive environment for discussion of these issues. We encourage every parent to practice Attachment Parenting as much as possible within each family situation in order to experience fulfilling, nurturing, close, and connecting love relationships with their children.