Title: The Art of Aging Gracefully Author: Katherine Kam Date: 2013 Why Relevant : Talks about the aging stages and encouraging of women can overcome it and what they can do when they finally do accept it. How this influenced me: It helps me to look at my life because I fear turning 30! I can't imagine the types of things I may feel when I get to my 40's. But this helps me to boost up my confidence level and to really want to live life at that stage. Credibility: Not sure but like the info.

Title: How to get a great body as a 50 year old female Author : Leslie Truex Date: 8/25/2011 Why relevant: Pertains to the physical aspects of turning 50, what a female may encounter at that age and what she can do to help prevent or slow down. How this influenced my thinking: Helped me to look at what I can do now for future benefits. Credibility: No credibility shown but good information.

Title : Girls are more intelligent than boys, but men are more intelligent than women. Author : Satoshi Kanazawa Date : 10/03/2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because in my paper, I discuss the debate of age difference in relationships. This article provides support in the maturation of girls and boys and why some people prefer the age difference and why some people may not. How This Influenced My Thinking It helps my thinking to understand where my husband and I are at in our marriage to where we were when we dated in high school. I was more mature than he was, but now he has matured and to be more intelligent than I am but we are equally mature enough. We are also 3 days apart in age.

Title:Parenting Styles and Its Correlates Author: Nancy Darling, PhD, MS Date Published: March 1999 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives you and understanding and a clear picture of the different parenting styles. As well, the different parenting styles can predict the behavior of the child and even the potential parenting skills. How This Influenced My Thinking: It helped to look more into depth of which type of parenting style I need to be for my children. It helps to go into the outcomes of the child. Credibility of Source: Very credible, author has a PhD and MS. Also the author cites credible sources.

Title: Do children need religion? Author: Austin Cline Date Published : 2013 Why relevant: Talks about the negatives and positives about being raised with religion. It helps to focus on what can really affect the child when religion is involved in a family life. How this influenced my thinking: It just helps me to look at what I can help my children with when they reach that age and may be faced with these issues as well. Credibility of Source: I've used this site many times for references and it seems to be credible.

Title: Puberty, Periods and Girls' Bodies Author: Avert Date Published: n.d Why Relevant: Talks about the puberty stages of a girl. What to expect emotionally, mentally and physically. Shows things you can use when you get your period and what to use for acne. How this influenced thinking: It doesn't because I already knew these things. But, it does help with my approach if I have a daughter. Credibility: Article has references as well.

Title: Children & Divorce Author: GSYMC Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: It helps to understand the behavior of children at different stages depending on when divorce takes place. How this influenced my thinking:It helped me to understand what I was going through when my parents got divorced. Also helps me to understand what other children might go through and how to be a supportive friend or family member. Credibility: This site seems to be credible.

Title: Experts Weigh in on Childhood Obesity Author:Rebecca Sharim Storace, M.D. Date Published: March 13, 2013 Summary/Why Relevant: This article discusses how important obesity in children are and what we as parents can do when our own children are obese. How can we help them to overcome obesity? How it influenced my thinking: This helps me to realize how truly important it is to emphasize that this a lifestyle change, not a diet. We want our children to understand the importance of health and exercise and that short amount of efforts will not reap long term gains. Credibility: Very. The authors provide citations for the research study as well as other resources.

Title: Guided Participation Author: Zeynep Isik-Ercan and Susan Golbeck Date Published :2009 Why Relevant and summary: Its relevant because it talks about the guided participation in relation to Vygotsky's theories and concepts of zone of proximal development. The article talks about how guided participation helps the child to achieve their goals. How this influenced my thinking: Helps me to realize the method of teaching I can do for my children so they will teach others the same way. Credibility of Source: There is a bibliography at the end to cite their sources that are equivalent to the sources of theory used.

Title: Social Development Author: Growing Miracles Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because it talks about the social development and all the aspects of what a toddler learns in this stage of life. It talks about communicating, sharing, putting the child in home settings and setting limits for the child. How This Influenced My Thinking: It influences my thinking because it makes me want to go back to when my children were small so that I can teach them differently than how they were taught. Credibility of Source: I think it's credible because even though it was reprinted with permission, the information is similar to that of research.

Title: Parenting styles/ Child temperaments : The match Author: Anita Gurian, PhD Date Published: Why Relevant and Summary: Its relevant because she talks not only but the child temperaments but about the types of parenting styles there are and how some styles might be good for certain temperaments. How to use your type of parenting style for your child's temperament. How This Influenced My Thinking: It helps my thinking because I'm able to see what kind of parenting style I have, what the temperaments of my children are and how I can match them so that my children are succeeding in life. Credibility of Source: I think its credible, a doctor wrote it along with supporting evidence of research.

Title: Water birth information Author: Waterbirth International Date Published: 01/2013 Why Relevant and Summary: I talk about water birth in my paper. This site gives reference to the positives of water births and just talks about the wonderful experience that one would look forward to if this was the method of their choice. How This Influenced My Thinking: Influences my thinking because it helped me to understand the water birth aspect and that hospital births are not the only way to give birth. Credibility of Source: It's a Waterbirth International website with information about doula's and midwives.

Title: Importance of prenatal sound and music Author: Giselle E Whitwell Date Published: It doesn't say Why Relevant and Summary: This was an amazing article! It was talking about the sound decibel of conversations or music outside of the womb. She goes to talking about how a baby might respond when the mother is in a certain environment and sometimes, what the effects may be after birth. How This Influenced My Thinking: While some of this is common knowledge, I never really knew or understood the importance of sound and how detrimental it can be in later stages of childhood. I see it now in my own children. I played a lot of music when I was pregnant and my kids love listening to it and dancing to it. Sometimes, you just don't think about these things. Credibility of Source: It's posted on an Association of Prenatal and Health. I don't think they would give false information.

Title: Bonding with your baby Author: Kids Health. Reviewed by Larissa Hirsch, MD Date Published: January 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: In our format, he asks us to give information on bonding and survival after birth. This article talks about bonding and how it really affects both the child and the parent. Its relevant because it's an important part of pregnancy, communicating and bonding while in the womb. This article also gives examples of what a positive environment might look like when bonding has taken place in the womb, and what it looks like after birth. How This Influenced My Thinking: It shows me that singing and talking to your belly is absolutely okay. Some people don't rub their belly or talk to their baby and sometimes, that can cause a slight disconnection in bonding when the baby is born. It will be something I keep in mind for my next pregnancy. Credibility of Source: This information is given on a Kids Health page and was reviewed by an M.D.

Title: Nature vs nurture are we really born that way Author: Kimberly Powell Date Published: Feb. 2, 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: It is relevant because it helps us to understand what really affects the way we are. How This Influenced My Thinking: It helps me to understand that sometimes my traits are not only from my genes, but in my environment as well. Credibility of Source: It seems to be credible because it is consistent with other information I've read.

Title: Readings on the Development of Children Author: Mary Gauvain and Michael Cole Date Published: 2005 Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it talks about the development of children and how Bronfenbrenner's theory applies to our lives. It goes through just like our human development book does and gives different examples so that you can better understand how each level applies to our life if we didn't understand it from our book. How This Influenced My Thinking: It doesn't influence my thinking because it gives the same information. What it does do is help me to understand the development in my own life and how I can better influence my children's development with this theory. Credibility of Source: Has some resources from Bronfenbrenner's books and articles. They are cited in this book.

Title: Brain Keys Language Development Author: Beth Fleming Date Published: 2002 Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it doesn't just breakdown step by step the stages of language development. But it gives examples as to what you can do. It gives research information. It tells you what you can do and what happens if you don't consistently talk to children. It encourages not only ways to help develop language, but to communicate. How This Influenced My Thinking: It influenced my thinking because of my own children. I talk to my children all the time NOW, but had I talked to them more and more when they were smaller, their development would be at different stage now. I agree that the research is consistent with results. Should I have another child, this impacts how I might do things differently. Credibility of Source: Beth Fleming is a Family Life Specialist