About Us

BY ARLENE F. HARDER, MA, MFT

The Childhood Affirmations Program was launched in the late spring of 2005 by to help parents raise resourceful, resilient and compassionate children. With more than one-hundred pages and many more links to other websites, resources and books, our purpose is to bring you the best material we can find so that you can develop the confidence and practical skills that make parenting so much easier.

In the spring of 2007 a set of two CDs on a positive sense of self for both parents and children will be available.

You are encouraged to buy books recommended in our resource pages to help defray the costs of maintaining this site.

Contributors and Affiliates

Beverly Adams, artist and poet

Ann Brazil, creator of TimeOut Tot

Dr. Kerby Alvy, director and creator of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring Discovery Tool for diagnosing developmental delays

Eva Fugitt, teacher and author of He Hit Me Back First!

Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., creator of Quintessential Careers

Arlene F. Harder, MA, MFT, Director of the Childhood Affirmations Program

Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna, parents and writers

Kathleen M. Marcos, information associate at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics at the Center for Applied Linguistics

Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, founder and Director of Montreal Children's Hospital's Asthma Centre and Pediatric Consultation Centre

Zara Snapp and Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States

Christina Baglivi Tinglof, mother and creator of the mom-in-the-middle website

Ilene Val-Essen, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author of Bring Out The Best—In Your Child And Yourself

Joyce and Barry Vissell, relationship specialists and creators of The Shared Heart Foundation