Welcome to Planet Parenting

Hello fellow parents! Planet Parenting is for everyone trying to raise happy, healthy and creative kids while remaining relatively happy, healthy and creative themselves.

I'm Dara Dokas and I've been a parent for 13 1/2 years (and counting). I'm a children's book writer, bookseller, and children's book buyer for a great, independent bookstore. I've also been an English and drama teacher, museum interpreter, television office coordinator, theater grant writer, waitress, data-entry clerk, and factory filter-maker.

I love organization and own just about every book there is on organizing your home, office, family, and/or personal life. Still it alludes me. But, in the name of organization, I've structured Planet Parenting to, hopefully, maximize its fun, creativity and usefulness.

Thus, here's the Planet Parenting weekly plan:

Monday - Monday Update

Tuesday - Open Topic

Wednesday - Featured Book

Thursday - "Back in the Day"

Friday - Quotable Kid

I hope you enjoy it here at Planet Parenting. Join in the conversation and we'll see where we go.