What We're Reading and Listening To

Learn better. Play smarter. | [View this email in your browser]( Parenting made simpler. Written by experts. Designed for intentional parents. What We're Reading and Listening To Refreshed with a bounce in our step from unplugging over Spring Break and catching up on life, we had a light and fun email planned for today filled with insights to a question we're often asked, "Read or listened to anything good lately?" Then in the U.S. this week, tragic news around police brutality and gun violence happened - all week. While we’re still sharing a peek into what fills our intellectual buckets as parents and educators, we would be remiss if we also didn’t make space to acknowledge these tragedies. To not acknowledge them, would imply that such incidents have become normalized. They are not normal. They are not OK. For preschoolers, they are too young for such news. For school-aged children, how much you share depends on your family’s values and many aspects of your child, including developmental age and maturity, their ability to articulate feelings and their exposure to uncomfortable or upsetting information. If you’d like more personalized guidance in creating a loving and supportive space for your child’s questions and thoughts, please email us at hello@myplinkit.com. We’d be happy to share some example scripts. Just remember: - Our words to our children matter. Our demeanor does too. Our reactions can influence their reactions. Children pick up on the stress and distress around them. - Our role as caregivers is to help our children process information they might hear, to provide space for their questions and thoughts, and to make sure they know that they are physically and emotionally safe. - How our children process the news will not be the way we process it. Keep listening and learning. Here’s to a brighter week and a [simple way to re-center]( when our boats are rocked that's as helpful for children as it is for grown-ups. For our readers who are celebrating, Ramadan Mubarak! - [Tressie McMillan Cottom on the Moral Panics of Our Moment - The Ezra Klein Show]( - [End of the Pandemic Edition - Mom and Dad Are Fighting]( - [The Addiction Inoculation with Jessica Lahey - Raising Good Humans]( - [Timber Wars - Oregon Public Broadcasting]( - [The Secret Life of Canada - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]( - [Jo Malone: Make Lemonade - The Joe Wicks Podcast]( READ + SHARE [A More Beautiful and Terrible History]( "As a non-American raising American children, I’m keen to better understand what is true about American civil rights history." -Charmaine Pattinson, Founder [BUY NOW]( READ + SHARE [The Sum of Us]( "Illustrates why white Americans so often choose party over policies that would help them, and demonstrates how racism impacts so many spheres of all citizens' lives." -Paige Abramson Hirsch, Chief Content Editor [BUY NOW]( READ + SHARE [The Road from Raqqa]( "A beautiful immigrant narrative and an ode to the power and strength of family. Insight into how both the U.S. and Syria are capable of beauty, generosity and oppression." -Charmaine Pattinson, Founder [BUY NOW]( READ + SHARE [America is Not the Heart]( "Digging into the story of a Filipina immigrant who settles in the Bay Area helps provide a deeper understanding of the immigrant experience and is especially illuminating in this time of increased violence against AAPI communities." -Paige Abramson Hirsch, Chief Content Editor [BUY NOW]( READ + SHARE [Gilead]( "Re-reading this now as a parent, I see the story so differently. Makes me wonder what I’d write in a letter to my children." -Charmaine Pattinson, Founder [BUY NOW]( READ + SHARE [To Raise A Boy]( "An important read that takes a hard yet realistic look at what it's like to be a boy in American society today." -Paige Abramson Hirsch, Chief Content Editor [BUY NOW]( Learn better. Play smarter. [EXPLORE OUR TOPICS]( FOLLOW US: Missed a newsletter? [Explore our Archive!]( Our content is written in partnership with the best child development experts. No ads. No sponsored recommendations. Just original content. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Plinkit · Parenting made simpler. · Written by experts. Designed for intentional parents., California 94118 · USA [Mailchimp Email Marketing](