by Harriet Heath | May 27, 2021 | Questions
How can we stop from yelling? Something happens. I yell. The kids yell back. Then Alex comes in and yells at us to stop yelling. It is loud noise and I hate it.
by Harriet Heath | May 12, 2021 | Book Review
by Angela Berkfield with co-authors Chrissy Colon Bradt, Leila Raven, Jaimie Lynn Kessell, Rowan Parker and Abigail Healey.Published by Green Writers Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 2021. Reviewed by Harriet Heath, PhD This book is written as a study guide for parents to...
by Harriet Heath | Apr 18, 2021 | Sharing
20-something years ago, we went on a two-week family vacation out west. We spent the first week with my large extended family, then flew to Seattle, rented a van, and embarked on a 7-day drive around Washington state. It was a rare time for just the five of us to be...
by Harriet Heath | Apr 2, 2021 | Blog
What Is a Parent To Do? They’re in the television and the IPod. They’re in the computer and the car. They’re in the smart phone and maybe even the dumb phone. Screens are everywhere. Before COV-19 the advice was, “Turn them off.” And we Quakers tended to turn our...
by Harriet Heath | Jan 15, 2019 | Book Review
by Llenore Skenazy, (2010). This book is for parents who want to be able to let their children be free to roam the neighborhood, city or forest, but can’t. The parents can’t act, the author argues, because they are afraid for their children. This fear, the argument...
