Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:24:00 GMT
I just returned from an incredible presentation at my kid’s middle school on drug prevention education. I know it doesn’t sound like a lot fun, but the presentation was extremely informative, entertaining and, needless to say, eye-opening.
Every year in the 7th and 8th graders in our school attend a 5-day session with Jonathan Scott of
Miles to Go, and there is a parent meeting at the beginning of the session to discuss with the parents what the children are going to be taught during upcoming the week.
Scott is a very charismatic and entertaining speaker and amazingly the kids really connect with him. He is also a recovering drug addict. My son thinks he’s learned more in this class than any other class all year.
Scott focuses on comprehensive drug facts, the socio-political environment surrounding drugs (legal and illegal), and the chemistry of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and their effects on the body in a very entertaining and engaging way, so the kids don’t feel like they are being lectured to.
I’m very grateful that our school is offering this kind of material for our students.
Please contact
Miles to Go if you are interested in getting a program like this for your school.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:40:00 GMT
Ok, here’s my first look at one of the family-oriented parenting blogs I have listed in my earlier post.
Minti is a very cool, cleanly designed, Web 2.0 site whose mission is to create “the world’s largest parent to parent advice-opedia”. It seems that they are well on their way to accomplishing just that.
It a place for parents to share and gain advice on parenting with other parents. The have a growing community of members, which at the moment seems to be in the several hundreds.
Judging from their tag cloud – most popular tags being “baby, cuddle, sleep, strabismus (I had to look that one up), teething, toddler,and trimester – most of their advice and comments to date are from parents of babies or toddlers
I hope over time there will be more advice from parents of teens and pre-teens. God knows we need all the advice we can get.
Minti is definitely worth checking out.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:46:00 GMT
It seems that until recently there has been a dearth of parenting advice on the internet, except for the mainstream parenting magazine websites or people trying to hawk books. But I’m starting to see more and more very interesting sites popping up. Although a lot of them are focused on the baby to toddler age group, they are certainly worth checking out. I’ll try to look over these sites and update this post with my impressions.
Minti
Maya’s Mom
To soon to tell on this one since it’s a parenting site in the works, but they are taking e-mail addresses from those interested in being informed about their release.
Families.com
365 First Time Parenting Tips
ParentingIdeas.org
RebelDad
ParentHacks
If you happen to know of any others, please let us know.
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