Hello Parents! Welcome to Kids' Rock, a noncommercial part of the ProgressiveKid website. We designed Kids' Rock to foster self-awareness, learning, confidence, and thoughtful reflection in your child. As writers and educators, we are committed to teaching kid-positive, progressive values, and we created Kids' Rock with that goal at heart. To learn what we mean by "progressive values," check out our PK icons and their accompanying links.

We recommend exploring Kids' Rock with your child. Take the opportunity to talk about the ideas and questions raised in these pages. For example, you might try doing the Self-Awareness Journey activities together. Please visit On a Ledge, our PK blog, for articles about progressive parenting in our changing global environment. Thanks for visiting, and have fun!

Read one parent's comments about Kids' Rock:

"I recently used the creative ideas from your kids rock page with my own children and nieces. The children ranged in ages from 4-13. I was so impressed with how the simple activities quickly activated the thinking and feeling responses within the children. It was not only a stimulating intellectual activity; it encouraged them to ponder and share their feelings and then create on paper how those feelings looked to them. I was surprised with the responses I was hearing, Things such as 'I really care about earthworms because they do so much hard work' and 'I am different because I am smaller than most kids my age, but it's okay because I am still a good person, and that matters more'. It was perfect timing for my 8 year old niece who recently gave up ballet to pursue her interest in soccer. It validated for her that it was not a boys sport; it was a sport that she had an interest in, and it was okay for her to have a go at it, that she could challenge gender roles and had already started. Everyone loved drawing the chick, especially my 5 year old who happened to have a broody chook sitting on eggs in the garden. She had not really accepted the concept that humans were animals, but after the experience of the activities, and wearing her 'proud to be an animal' top, it feels like she is grasping the idea better."

—April, Bowral, Australia