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Helping Parents Rise to the Challenge
The holidays can be a time of great joy, but they can also be a time when parents feel overwhelmed. This month we focus on ways to help parents rise to the challenge of parenthood. Here are just a few of the many Extension resources offered through CYFERnet to help parents deal with:
- Parental stress
- Peer pressure
- Bullying
- Childhood obesity
Parental stress
Family Communication
During Times of Stress (pdf)
This fact sheet explains some common sources of stress, possible impacts, and
ways to cope by communicating with family members.
Secrets
of Parenting: Parental Stress Can Spill Over to the Kids (pdf)
This fact sheet discusses the challenges parenting presents, particularly during
stressful times. It makes suggestions on ways to reduce the impact of stressful
events on family members and ways to confront and manage stress.
Secrets
of Parenting: Reducing Whining and Improving Youth Children's Self-control
(pdf)
Young children under the age of 6 are very self-centered and think that they
should get what they want and need "right now". They often get frustrated when
they realize that the world does not revolve around them. This frustration can
lead to whining and tantrums because they have not developed the self-control
to deal with their frustrations. This fact sheet offers suggestions on how parents
can deal with and avoid tantrums and whining.
Peer pressure
Childhood
Aggression: Where Does it Come From? How Can it be Managed?
Children aren't born aggressive, they learn it. However, children, parents,
and caregivers also can learn how to cope with aggression. This resource answers
questions about aggression and how to teach coping skills to children.
Teen
Talk: A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers
The guide helps parents talk with their teens about drinking, drugs, peer
pressure, and sex. It provides useful tips on how to talk with teenagers.
Adolescence and Peer Pressure
This fact sheet is aimed at parents who want to help their children cope
with peer pressure.
Bullying
What's a Parent to Do?
This site links to Iowa State University's satellite and web cast seminar to
be held December 7, 2-3 p.m. CST. If you are a professional or volunteer who
works with families, or a caregiver of a child who has behavior problems or
has experienced bullying, this may be the most important event you attend this
year. This program is aimed at helping educators understand the emotional strengths
in children and youth, and providing practical ideas to reframe how to work
effectively with children and families.
Bullies
(pdf)
This fact sheet explains why children are bullies and how parents can help prevent
their children from becoming bullies. It also provides ways to deal with a bully,
as well as ways to detect whether a child may be being bullied.
Bullying in
Our Children's Schools
This PowerPoint presentation offers an overview of bullying and includes
additional resources.
Bullying: What Educators
Can Do About It (pdf)
This 12-page publication offers advice to educators on what they can do about
bullying. It includes sections on different forms of bullying, strategies for
teachers and schools, references, classroom activities, and children's books
related to bullying.
Bullying: What Parents
Can Do About It (pdf)
This eight page publication offers advice to parents on what they can do about
bullying. It includes sections on addressing bullying, strategies for parents,
references, other resources, and children's books related to bullying.
Bullies Make
Life Miserable for Many Kids
This brief fact sheet includes some statistics about bullying, tips for
children on how to deal with bullies, and what to do if your child is bullying
others.
Childhood obesity
Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
in America: What's a Parent to Do? (pdf)
A brochure for parents with information about obesity and strategies for dealing
with it in children and adolescents.
CSREES/USDA Project on Reversing Childhood Obesity Trends
This site provides links to research briefs, contacts, resources, progress reports,
and newsletters on CSREES's project aimed at reversing current childhood obesity
trends.
Guidelines for
Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Promoting Healthy Weight in Children
These guidelines for obesity prevention programs encourage a health-centered,
rather than weight-centered approach that focuses on the whole child - physically,
mentally and socially. Recommendations are directed toward program planners,
teachers, parents, school staff and other health professionals who are concerned
about children and weight. Available in English and Spanish.
Eat Smart, Move More
This website from a North Carolina statewide initiative, promotes increased
opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating through policy and environmental
change. The site provides professional and personal tools for increasing physical
activity and healthy eating.
Your Child's Health,
Your Child's Weight (pdf)
This publication discusses the problem of childhood obesity and gives parents
charts and information to determine if their children are at risk.
Raising Healthy Children in
an Overweight World (pdf)
This fact sheet discusses what is known about childhood obesity and what parents
can do to help their children maintain/achieve healthy weights.
Indulging Our Children and
Harming Them in the Process (pdf)
This fact sheet discusses what can happen when parents overindulge their children
and provides parents with suggestions on how to avoid this issue.
A
Parent's Guide to Children's Weight (pdf)
This brochure provides information to parents on how to help their children
maintain a healthy weight.
Childhood
Obesity
This fact sheet discusses the problem of childhood obesity and its causes such
as poor diet and inactivity. It also offers advice on preventing childhood obesity.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Releases New Report On Role Of Media In Childhood Obesity
This news release highlights the relationship between childhood obesity and
the role of the media. Majority of the research focuses on linkages between
the amount of time children spend watching television and their body weight.
Reversing Childhood
Obesity Trends: Helping Children Achieve Healthy Weights
Audio transcripts of a CYFERnet sponsored interactive conference call that highlighted
current research and trends in childhood obesity, shared information on current
programs being offered throughout Extension, and expanded the network of Extension
professionals working on childhood obesity issues.
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