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Slow Parenting Teens: Discussion

Slow Parenting Teens – Review

• Authored by:
• Kevin Slick

Written by Molly Wingate and Marti Woodward

On Family (September 2014)

Slow, Simple, Not Easy

• Authored by:
• Molly Wingate

Parenting summons the best in a person; it also sometimes triggers, well . . . less than the best. When I brought together my Quaker faith with my aspirations for parenting, I found “a way” to be a parent, especially as my children became teenagers. With my friend Marti Woodward, I coauthored a book, Slow Parenting Teens [reviewed on page 10], and I now conduct trainings on this approach.

On Family (September 2014)

Native Voices and Quaker Choices

• Authored by:
• James Summers

So, where’s all the Indians?” asked Yaynicut Franco, one of the Wukchumni adults. The whiteness of the conference was a bit shocking to us, given the title: “Quakers, First Nations, and American Indians.”

On Insight (March 2017)

Carmen Morán Broz

Moving Forward Together – In A Good Way

• Authored by:
• Darlene Franco,
• Melissa Lovett-Adair

Quaker Oaks Farm is a place where we, Darlene and Melissa, children of families from very different backgrounds, are creating new stories together. We are characters in the stories, and we are authors. The stories are about what happens when non-Native and Native people risk engaging with the uncomfortable conundrum of how to go forward together, In A Good Way, given all the injustices delivered to Native people over the centuries and which continue today. The stories are about ways that Native peoples, settlers’ descendants, and newer immigrants might co-exist in true harmony.

On Difference (July 2015)

The Children's Meeting of 1663

• Authored by:
• Elizabeth Boardman,
• Marie Schutz

“The children’s meeting” of 1663 is famous among Friends. In 1906, some Friends made a book about it, told in the words of fourteen-year-old Judith, who was there in 1663. Near the start of the book, Judith says:

On Play (September 2015)

Poetry Heals

• Authored by:
• Molly Wingate

“Way has opened” countless times over the past five years, as I followed a calling to create a nonprofit organization called Poetry Heals.

On Art (March 2020)

Conversational Arts: The Foundation of All Relationships

• Authored by:
• Amos Smith

When people feel valued, when they know that you have listened, they are much more receptive to therapy and interventions.

Vocation (April 2025)

Forrest Malachi Penn