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Mindful Parenting for Parents & Caregivers Fact Sheet (FS108E) 
Author: Crawford, Jenn
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the five dimensions of mindful parenting. Mindful parenting is defined as when parents or caregivers intentionally develop a nonjudgmental awareness of their own thoughts, emotions, and sensations in the present moment.
Mindfulness & Mindful Parenting for Parent Educators Fact Sheet (FS107E)
Author: Crawford, Jemn
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the five dimensions of mindful parenting.
– Evaluation –
Strengthening Families Program Statewide Outcomes
Description: This research brief documents the successful implementation of Iowa State University's "Strengthening Families Program" offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators from January through November, 2007 across five New York counties and in New York City.
– General Information –
Babies and Toddlers Should Learn From Play, Not Screens
Description: This news release from the American Academy of Pediatrics provides an updated policy statement on media screen time for children under 2, to support the Academy's recommendation to keep children under age of 2 as screen-free as possible. They say that parents should have a strategy for managing electronic media if they choose to engage their children with it.
Description: This game provides a way for children to practice dealing with bullies.
Description: This article defines the term bully and explains ways to identify bullying.
Characteristics of Positive Parent-Child Interactions: Monitor
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: From the Parenting in Context website, this fact sheet provides strategies for parenting adolescents.
Dealing With the Stress of Parenthood
Description: Being a parent is probably the most stressful job there is, and the first few years are often the most difficult. It is possible, however, to learn how to maintain your self-control and survive the tough times.
Early Head Start National Resource Center
Description: A Web site for Early Head Start Programs, specifically geared toward parents and professionals who care for birth to three year old children.
Getting Ready to Go Back to School
Author: CYFERnet Program Editors, (12 more by this author)
Description: This resource focuses on strategies and tips to prepare children and their families for the start of the school year. Children need help from their parents and peers to get ready to succeed in school, and to develop lifelong, healthy habits. Prepare the children and youth in your life to succeed in school and in life!
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Growing Up - Grade 3 September
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Guiding Young Children/Cómo guiar a los niños pequeños
Description: This fact sheet offers parents techniques to tell children what they can do instead of what they can't do.
Helping Children Achieve Success and Learn from Failure
Author: Clark, Lois (4 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to help children avoid being afraid of failure but rather to encourage them that they can learn from their mistakes.
If Only . . . Detecting the Early Warning Signs for Suicide in Children
Author: Bard, Ella Mae
Description: This is a fact sheet on the warning signs of detecting suicide tendencies of children.
ISU's Gentile Contributes to Study Identifying Risks, Consequences of Video Game Addiction
Description: A new study by an international research team -- including an Iowa State University psychologist -- found further evidence that video game "addiction" exists globally and that greater amounts of gaming, lower social competence and greater impulsivity were risk factors for becoming pathological gamers.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet from Extension en Espanol that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Media and Children: Choosing TV Programs, Movies, Videos, and DVDs
Author: Ebata, Aaron (3 more by this author)
Description: This article provides information on TV ratings and links to information and advice for parents on children and media.
Media and Children: Taming Television
Author: Ebata, Aaron (3 more by this author); Katherine Branscomb
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on what parents can do if they are worried about their children's TV habits and how too much television viewing might be harmful to them.
Métodos para educar a los niños
Description: This fact sheet explores basic "dos" and "don'ts" for parents raising young children.
Nine Practical Points for Parents / Nueve puntos prácticos para padres
Description: This fact sheet gives parents some ideas to help their children have a good education at home.
Obesity and Overuse of Electronic Media -- Science of Parenting
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: A child's health and wellbeing can be affected in many ways by spending too much time using electronic media. Find tips for setting limits, encouraging physical activity, and talking with your child about use of time.
Ohio State University Publications
Description: An Ohio State Web Site that includes an extensive collection of links to other Web Sites and articles within the field of childcare and family studies.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how caring for yourself, understanding, nurturing, guiding, motivating, and advocating are primary parts of effective parenting. Also contains information on the stages of parenting and the different types of parenting.
Description: Parenting News provides a "one-stop" source of current parenting education news, access to four popular newsletters for parents and grandparents, and links to other web-based resources from University of Illinois Extension. The site is organized around three age groups (birth-5, 6-12 years, and teens), with a special section for grandparents raising grandchildren. Users can register to customize the site for their own use, and to be notified via email when new issues of newsletters are available for viewing. The system also provides for scheduled electronic delivery of "Parenting the 1st-3rd Years." Each month, a newsletter corresponding to the age of the child is delivered with information on stages of development, tips for parents, and suggestions for coping with the stress.
Parenting Site - Wisconsin Extension
Description: Newsletters on a variety of parenting issues. These newsletters are age-paced and research based.
Description: Jody Johnston Pawel hosts discussions on parenting topics. You can participate/listen live or through recorded show topics.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article presents an overview of successful parental monitoring of teenagers.
Responsive Discipline: 9. Consequences
Description: This is a short YouTube video from Charles Smith’s “Responsive Discipline” series focusing on how consequences can be used to teach and change a child's behavior.
Science of Parenting: Media and Kids
Description: This blog provides articles on cyberbullying and other issues involving a child’s use of electronic media.
Secrets of Parenting 5, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on discipline and guidance issues. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Should you give your child an allowance?
Author: Behal, Patricia (1 more by this author); Alice Crites
Description: This fact sheet provides information on how parents can make a decision to give their children allowances.
Author: Moore, Mignon
Description: William Julius Wilson’s model of adult joblessness, community disorganization
and their effects on youth problem behaviour de-emphasizes the range
in children’s outcomes across socially disorganized communities, and says
little about the factors that influence this variation. It also does not address
the
processes
by which family structure and relationships affect the wellbeing
of African-American and poor youth. My work is part of a larger
research agenda that has begun to address these issues by focusing on the
differential rates of sexual activity among youth living in disadvantaged
environments, and developing models to explain this variation. This work
suggests that units of socially cohesive, stable adults exist among the social
networks of successful children and families in poor neighbourhoods. It also
points to the existence and functioning of alternative two-parent family
structures and offers hypotheses for how family environment interacts with
neighbourhood context to influence youth behaviour.
The serious effects of physical discipline
Description: There are many factors that influence how parents discipline their children: parents’ own upbringing, family customs and stress levels all factor in. But there is clear evidence that some forms of discipline – specifically physical punishment – have negative effects on children throughout their lives.
Video Games and Other Media: Pros and Cons -- Science of Parenting
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: Video games can affect children in harmful or productive ways. Find tips to help you evaluate games; consider short- and long-term effects that games can cause and skills they teach.
Waiting? Have Some Family Fun Times
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips on heping children wait, during family trips, in the supermarket, in restaurants and for appointments.
Description: This fact sheet explores basic "dos" and "don'ts" for parents raising young children.
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet contains useful information regarding teens' online use, including descriptions of terms and the benefits and drawbacks of various social networking media, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, IM, and text messaging.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: Caringworks
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource is an online study course that focuses on the importance of the early years in the formation of a healthy and compassionate conscience.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: Fireworks – Anger Management in Adult-Child Relationships
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource in an online non-credit course regarding anger management and how it is approached and viewed in society. The main focus is the sensitive relationship between adults and children.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: I’m Positive – Growing up with self-esteem
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource is a "conversational" course comprised of more than 230 brief web pages linked together in a conversational format for fostering healthy child development.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: Responsive Discipline
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource is an informal personal study course that provides tools for guiding and nurturing children from early childhood through adolescence.
– Other Resources –
Description: The Parenting Wisely (PW) Program is an interactive CD-ROM program designed for parents of adolescents and pre-adolescents (ages 9-18). It is a low-cost, effective, and entertaining form of intervention available to organizations and individual parents. Parents of adjudicated or high risk youth need to learn appropriate parenting skills, especially since these youth are challenging and can and do escalate their misbehavior when parents respond with coercion, threats, or permissiveness. Parenting Wisely program specifically for these families. It is a parenting and family living skills CD-ROM that trains parents to use good communication, discipline, supervision, and support. Available in Spanish and English.
– Professional Development –
Early Head Start National Resource Center
Description: A Web site for Early Head Start Programs, specifically geared toward parents and professionals who care for birth to three year old children.
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author); Judy Myers-Walls; Wally Goddard; Dot Cudaback
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes. Together, these practices identified issues that Extension professionals across the entire United States could agree were important.
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A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: Teens and Risk-Taking
Author: Gengler, Colleen (7 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips for helping parents support their teenage children as they explore new ideas and opportunities.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: I Need to Get a Job
Description: This fact sheet helps parents of teenagers examine the positive and negative consequences of having a job while in high school.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers:What if the next shooting is at my school?
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents in talking with their teenage children about school violence.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers:Winning Isn't Everything
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents in discussing the importance of sports and competition with their teenage children.
Description: Alcohol-related accidents and deaths, and reports of binge drinking among young people have parents concerned. The following resources help parents of college students and soon-to-be college students better understand alcohol use among young people and what they can do to help.
Aprovechando la Escuela al Maxiomo A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: Making the Most of It
Description: Research shows children do better in school and have more positive attitudes about it when their parents are involved in school life. This fact sheet provides information to assist parents in helping their teenage children set and achieve goals.
Description: Basic Parenting is a comprehensive parent education program that focuses on 80 principles and skills that form the foundation for effective parenting. The program is based on the National Extension Parent Education Model and is designed for parents who are experiencing adversity in childrearing. Materials for parents are written at about the sixth grade level but are suitable for audiences at higher reading levels.
Being Involved with Your School-Age Child
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Anne M. Fugate
Description: Parental involvement means being genuinely involved in every part of your child's life. This fact sheet offers suggestions for increasing time together with your children, how to establish family traditions and activities.
Building Your Child's Self-esteem
Description: This article provides tips on how to build a young child’s self-esteem.
Author: Erath, Stephen
Description: This is an archived webinar conducted in collaboration with CYFERnet, USDA/NIFA, eXtension, and the Dept. of Defense focusing on bullying prevention, evidence-based intervention programs, and what parents can do.
Bullying: A Big Problem with Big Consequences
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on what to do if parents suspect that their teenage children are being victimized by a bully or are themselves being a bully.
BullyingInfo.org: Bullying Prevention and Response
Description: Youth, parents, schools, communities, and others have a role to play in building positive, supportive environments for children and youth, promoting acceptance and respect among all individuals, and ultimately, fostering youth development and learning. This federal government website provides a "one-stop shop" access point to federal resources, programs and research on preventing bullying.
Calling All Parents: How Did You Do on Your Homework?
Description: This article focuses on parents' role in helping their children with homework. Provides suggestions on creating a healthy cooperative learning environment.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a aprender ciencias
Description: This booklet provides parents of children ages 3 through 10 with information, tools and activities they can use in the home and community to help their child develop an interest in the sciences and learn about the world around them.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a ser un buen lector
Description: This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo con la tarea escolar -- La serie de Ayudando a su niño
Description: This booklet helps parents of elementary and junior high school students understand why homework is important and makes suggestions for helping children complete assignments successfully.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo con las matemáticas
Description: The major portion of this booklet is made up of fun activities that parents can use with children from preschool age through grade 5 to strengthen their math skills and build strong positive attitudes toward math.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo durante la edad preescolar
Description: This booklet highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their children to develop the skills necessary for success in school and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
Como Mejorar la Educación de sus Hijos Guía Para Padres Latinos
Description: This guide offers Latino parents a number of suggestions on how they can get involved in and be better advocates for the education of their children. Information is also offered so that Latino parents have the tools to exercise their rights.
Description: This article explains different types of discipline and how to positively use discipline.
Discipline: Teaching School Age Children Social Skills
Author: Temke, Mary (17 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet includles effective discipline techniques for school-age children.
Do as I Do: Parents as Nutritional Role Models
Author: Foote, Ruth Anne
Description: This fact sheet discusses how parents can become role models for their children by eating well and providing nutritional foods for the family.
E-Parenting: Modern Parenting in a Digital World
Description: ParentFurther features technology and media resources from National Institute on Media and the Family.
Educating Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
Author: Gabarino, James
Description: This article discusses the problems of children growing up in a socially toxic environment. Social toxins include violence, poverty, and other economic pressures on parents and their children. They include disruption of family relationships and other trauma, despair, depression, paranoia, nastiness, and alienation--all contaminants that demoralize families and communities. These are the forces in the land that contaminate the environment of children and youth. These are the elements of social toxicity.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on what to do if parents suspect that their teenage children are being victimized by a bully or are themselves being a bully.
El Ganar no es Todo (Winning Isn't Everything)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents in discussing the importance of sports and competition with their teenage children.
Description: The Families with Teens program from the University of Minnesota is designed to help parents meet the challenges of raising teens. The program focuses on better family communication and decision-making, stronger parent-teen relationships, and more confident parenting.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Disciplining Your Grandchild
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a brief overview for grandparents raising grandchildren on how to effectively and consistently discipline children at different ages, as well as how to encourage positive behaviors.
Great Beginnings for Families Program
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author); Donna Andrusyk
Description: Great Beginnings for Families is a research based, interactive parenting education curriculum (Spanish and English) for parents of children 0-6 years that focuses on child development, play and encouragement, guidance and discipline, building family strengths, and anger management. Program evaluation data reveals that parents who have participated in the program strengthen their parenting knowledge and skills.
Guiding Children Successfully Educational Guide
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This is the first segment of the Guiding Children Successfully with “Dr. Wally” --a series of television programs that were designed to provide information and training to parents, caregivers, educators, homeschoolers, and childcare providers. The parenting series was produced by the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN), in partnership with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: This is a tool that parents can use to better understand their parenting style (permissive, unengaged, authoritarian, and authoritative). It provides suggestions on how to reduce discipline problems and improve healthy parent-child relationships. It includes a self-assessment quiz for parents to complete. Also includes activity suggestions to use this information in training sessions with parents.
Help Your Kids Zoom into Action
Description: Tip sheet for helping parents help their children become young volunteers. Provides parents with ideas for guiding their children to volunteer and thus develop self-confidence and self-esteem, learn social responsibility, gain new skills, and reduce risk behaviors.
Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Description: This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
Description: The major portion of this booklet is made up of fun activities that parents can use with children from preschool age through grade 5 to strengthen their math skills and build strong positive attitudes toward math.
Also available in Spanish.
Helping Your Child Learn Science
Description: This booklet provides parents of children ages 3 through 10 with information, tools and activities they can use in the home and community to help their child develop an interest in the sciences and learn about the world around them.
Also available in Spanish.
Helping Your Child Succeed in School
Description: This booklet provides parents with information, tools and activities they can use in the home to help their child develop the skills critical to academic success.
Helping Your Child With Homework
Description: This booklet helps parents of elementary and junior high school students understand why homework is important and makes suggestions for helping children complete assignments successfully.
Helping Your Child with Social Problems
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Anne M. Fugate
Description: This is a fact sheet on helping children deal with social problems and how parents can help their children with these issues.
Author: Weigel, Dan (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is geared toward helping parents prepare their children for school and to become good learners.
Description: This booklet highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their children to develop the skills necessary for success in school and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
Helping Your School-Age Child Develop a Healthy Self-Concept
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Anne M. Fugate
Description: This publication describes how a child's self-concept begins to develop at birth with how adults respond to her. Parents and caregivers create a positive emotional bond with an infant through warm and caring interactions with a lot of eye contact and touch. This positive emotional bond with parents and caregivers promotes a child's healthy self-concept.
Description: Keys to Great Parenting is an educational program built around seven keys for unlocking an infant or toddler's wonderful capabilities. Based on the latest brain research, the program teaches key parenting skills that stimulate optimum development.
Let’s Talk About… Something That Matters
Description: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange County has a webpage called "Let's Talk" to help facilitate communication between parents and kids. It has sections on media literacy, cyber-bullying, and social media.
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes the best ways to meet children's needs at various stages in their development.
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author); Judy Myers-Walls; Wally Goddard; Dot Cudaback
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes. Together, these practices identified issues that Extension professionals across the entire United States could agree were important.
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM) (pdf)
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model (pdf version) outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes.
Necesito Trabajar (I Need to Get a Job)
Description: This fact sheet helps parents of teenagers examine the positive and negative consequences of having a job while in high school.
Parenting During the Elementary School Years, Part 1: Preventing Misbehavior
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Ingrid Rivera; Anne M. Fugate
Description: Fact sheet on parenting school-age children. Provides suggestions on how parents can develop a relationship with their children, avoid misbehavior, and encourage children to become more self-reliant.
Parenting During the Elementary School Years, Part 2: Discipline
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Ingrid Rivera; Anne M. Fugate
Description: Discipline strategies are discussed in this fact sheet to help parents deal with their child’s misbehavior quickly and effectively. The fact sheet also provides parents with tips on establishing guidelines that will prevent misbehavior from happening and thus encourage children to be more responsible, happy and self-confident.
Description: Parenting News provides a "one-stop" source of current parenting education news, access to four popular newsletters for parents and grandparents, and links to other web-based resources from University of Illinois Extension. The site is organized around three age groups (birth-5, 6-12 years, and teens), with a special section for grandparents raising grandchildren. Users can register to customize the site for their own use, and to be notified via email when new issues of newsletters are available for viewing. The system also provides for scheduled electronic delivery of "Parenting the 1st-3rd Years." Each month, a newsletter corresponding to the age of the child is delivered with information on stages of development, tips for parents, and suggestions for coping with the stress.
Description: The Parenting Wisely (PW) Program is an interactive CD-ROM program designed for parents of adolescents and pre-adolescents (ages 9-18). It is a low-cost, effective, and entertaining form of intervention available to organizations and individual parents. Parents of adjudicated or high risk youth need to learn appropriate parenting skills, especially since these youth are challenging and can and do escalate their misbehavior when parents respond with coercion, threats, or permissiveness. Parenting Wisely program specifically for these families. It is a parenting and family living skills CD-ROM that trains parents to use good communication, discipline, supervision, and support. Available in Spanish and English.
Secrets of Parenting 5, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on discipline and guidance issues. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Secrets of Parenting: Reducing Whining and Improving Youth Children's Self-control
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author); Lisa Shannon
Description: 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.
Something Better than Punishment
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions to parents on ways to provide guidance and discipline to their children.
Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14
Author: Webb, Catherine; Virginia Molgaard
Description: A parent, youth and family skills-building curriculum designed to prevent teen substance abuse and other behavior problems; strengthen parenting skills and build family strengths. The program consists 7 sessions plus 4 boosters; session is 2 hours in length; parents and youth meet separately first; and families practice skills and have fun together during the second hour.
Teens and Technology: Parents the Anti-Drug
Description: Teens and Technology is described as “a crash course” in the most popular communication tools used by teens today. It offers guidance and advice to help parents monitor their teen's activities on these devices.
Description: This article provides information and tips on toilet training.
Usted, su Niño, y La Disciplina Positiva
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author); L. Burt
Description: This fact sheet suggests positive discipline techniques that parents can use to encourage positive behavior. Includes activities and suggestions on further reading. (in Spanish)
Description: Provides information on what parents can do to prevent serious car crashes by teens.
What's Normal for Teen Development?
Description: Fact sheet discusses biological and physical changes, social and emotional changes, and teen brain development, and more. Also, provides tips on what parents can do to help their teen through these changes.
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Babycenter.com: New parent behavior in an online community
Description: To gain a better understanding of the ways in which new parents use an online community in their parenting, this study examined one popular parenting Web site www.babycenter.com that allows parents to join a cohort of parents with children of the same age. Analyses revealed that parents participated in both individual activities, such as journal writing, and group activities, such as posting and responding to questions on a discussion board.
School Connectedness—Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth
Description: This CDC report explores the ways in which school connectedness can act as a protective factor in decreasing risk factors and increasing the likelihood of positive youth development. This publication defines and describes the components of school connectedness and identifies specific actions that schools can take to increase school connectedness.
Strengthening Families Program Statewide Outcomes
Description: This research brief documents the successful implementation of Iowa State University's "Strengthening Families Program" offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators from January through November, 2007 across five New York counties and in New York City.