This page was created to link you with valuable parenting resources. Included are pages with advice on important topics from like-minded people, web sites that focus on Pagan parenting and lots of books we recommend both for reading aloud and for kids to use themselves. High quality web links (from authors or publishers before booksellers) are provided whenever possible, but if none is available you'll find a complete description so that you can find the source easily at a library or store. If you wish to purchase an out-of-print book, we strongly suggest half.com.

If you are looking for a Pagan-friendly diverse alternative scouting group, contact Clare (cfiverson@fuse.net) about the Camp Fire group meeting at St. John's Unitarian Church in Cincinnati.

To start you off, here is some advice from Jeannette K. Waldie on how to handle the situation if you are accused of harming your children by "exposing" them to the Pagan way of life. She calls it
"Legal Smarts for Pagan Parents."

All Ages

• Celebrating Paganism with Children from CUUPS.
  
  
• Pagan Parenting web site containing book reviews, essays, games, other links. An outstanding resource.

• Covenant of the Goddess' Wiccan Children & Youth Resources Bibliography and Bookstor

• Pagan & Wiccan Parenting Page Activities, crafts, recipes, songs, chants, and links for Pagan and Wiccan children and their families.

• Neferchichi's Tomb Egyptian Art & Games
  

• Your Backyard Wildlife Year (book) by Marcus Schneck has monthly projects that help bring wildlife into your backyard... everything from what to plant to how to build a mini pond. Easy to use, with photographs and illustrations. ISBN 0-87596-706-x, Rodale Gardening

• Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions (book) by Starhawk and members of the Reclaiming Collective. A must-have resource that shares stories, recipes, songs and chants, and craft ideas for each of the Pagan holidays and children's rites of passage. ISBN 0-553-10016-5, Bantom Books.

• Mind Over Labor (book) by Carl Jones is an excellent book of meditations designed to help you through labor. Highly recommended for a drug-free childbirth. ISBN 0-14-046762-9, Penguin Books.

• On the Day You Were Born (book) by Debra Frasier, tells a young child how much joy her arrival brought. ISBN 0-15-257995-8, Harcourt Brace, 1991.

• Mother Earth (book) by Nancy Luenn. Simple, poetic language describes the Earth in all her Elements. ISBN 0-689-311668-2, Atheneum/MacMillan, 1992.

• My Working Mom (book) by Peter Glassman. Told from a child's perspective, the text could be about any working mom... but this working mom is dressed in full witching regalia, doing important work in her "lab" and "flying" off to "meetings" with other witches in circle.

• The Lion and the Little Red Bird (book) by Elisa Kleven. A sweet, colorful tale of friendship. ISBN 0-525-448985, Dutton Children's Books, 1992.

• Imagine by John Lennon (book) Illustrated by Lynn Lancaster-Poh and Tilman Reitzle. (The link is to where you can buy it. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate a descriptive link.) If you remember the lyrics to this song, you know why it fits so well! Pictures of balloons, kites & nature are engaging for little ones and the text is in cursive, which is fun for kids just learning to write this way. (Hard to find.) ISBN 1- 555972-0387, Carol Publishing Group, 1970 (lyrics), 1990 (book).

• The Big Big Sea (book) by Martin Waddell with beautiful illustrations by Jennifer Eachus. Lovely picture book about simple living. ISBN 1-56402-066-5, 1994.

• I'll See You When the Moon is Full (book) by Susi Gregg-Fowler. Dad shows his son how to track the phases of the moon before leaving on a business trip. (Hard to find.) ISBN 0-688-10830-X, Greenwillow Books, 1994.

• The Widow's Broom, (book) by Chris Van Allsburg. A priceless story that teaches tolerance with humor and poignancy. Would go well with any study of the witch trials. ISBN 0-395-64051-2, Houghton-Mifflin Co, 1992.

Young Adult (Older School Age)

• "Teens & Wicca" page from Religious Tolerance.org

• Bluebird Rescue (book) by Joan Rattner Heilman. Describes the bluebirds' vanishing nesting situation and ways to create living space for them on your property. Great illustrated instructions on building and placing bluebird houses. ISBN 0-944475-24-8, Camden House Publishing, Inc, 1992

• More information about Bluebird Conservation from the Audubon Society.

• A River Ran Wild (book) by Lynn Cherry, illustrates the history of the Nashua River in New England. Told from a Native American perspective, it advocates conservation by telling of its history of pollution and the restoration efforts that followed. ISBN 0-15-200542-0, Harcourt Brace, 1992.

• More about river conservation from American Rivers and Rivers Unlimited.