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Supporting Your Adolescent: Tips for Parents
Description: Provides tips for raising an adolescent, as well as a comprehensive listing of print resources for parents and glossary of terms.
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10 Tips for Talking with Kids About the News
Description: This tip sheet offers parents suggestions for helping their children deal with frightening news events.
10 Tips for Talking with Kids about Tough Issues
Description: This article offers tips on how parents and other caregivers can talk with young children about sensitive topics.
Description: This factsheet explores types of communication within families and offers suggestions for improving family relationships.
Communicating with Infant and Toddlers 
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to improve communications with infant and toddlers.
Author: Sachs, Shannon (2 more by this author)
Description: Provides tips for how to improve parent-teen communications.
Conversaciones con los ninos sobre el terrorismo
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (6 more by this author)
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet provides tips on how to talk with young children about acts of terroism and help them deal with associated fears and anxieties.
Author: Harrelson, Peggy (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet on helping parents deal with angry children.
Author: Matthews, D. (5 more by this author)
Description: "Why are feelings so important in interpersonal relationships? Because communication is at the heart of relationships, and feelings are at the heart of effective communication."
Familes Taking Charge: Talking With Your Spouse
Author: Hayhoe, Celia Ray (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping spouses improve their communication between one another.
Families Meeting the Challenge of Going Online
Author: Wolford, Marge
Description: Fact sheet on how families can address the challenges of the Information Age. Discusses tips for how to teach children to be responsible when they are using the Internet.
Family Communication During Times of Stress
Description: A practical application of the principles contained within this publication can contribute positively toward better communication, resulting in more effective management of stress and more satisfying family relationships.
Description: This fact sheet explores types of communication within families and offers suggestions for improving family relationships.
Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); James Marshall, University of Arkansas
Description: This webinar (conducted February 2013) focuses on three essential keys to nurture and maintain healthy relationships - especially family ones. The "Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships" program reviews several forms of human bias and provides steps to overcome these so that all relationships can be healthier. The webinar equips parent and family life educators to work more effectively in their own relationships and to share these ideas with others.
Helping Our Children Deal with Shocking Events
Author: Wipfler, Patty (2 more by this author)
Description: This tip sheet offers parents suggestions for helping their children deal with frightening news events.
Innocent Messages to Young Children May be Harmful
Description: This fact sheet addresses how a child's concerns about body image can be triggered by “innocent” comments from a parent.
Kids and Internet Usage: The Surprising Facts
Author: Hutton, Lindsay
Description: Do you know how much time your child is spending on the Internet? New studies suggest most parents grossly underestimate the amount of time their children are spending online.
La marihuana: Lo que los padres deben saber
Description: Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know Provides valuable information from research on the dangers of marijuana. Gives parents explanations of the latest scientific information about the drug and suggestions on how to talk to teens about it.
Let Your Infant of Toddler Teach You About Play
Description: A fact sheet containing suggestions on how parents can learn from their children through simple play activities.
Author: Matthews, D. (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses communication and the "science" of listening.
Author: Lyons, Rachel (1 more by this author)
Description: Project Memory Exchange is a high-tech, intergenerational Oral History program, that has youth develop an interview protocol, and then interview and video tape other youth and adults. The interview videos are then used to create documentaries. The program seeks to increase understanding of the benefits of intergenerational programming, enhance skills related to creating and implementing intergenerational programs, and build competencies in working with people of all ages in technology skill-building programs.
Stranger Danger: What Your Children Need to Know
Description: This fact sheet provides tips for helping parents talk to their children about strangers.
Talk to Kids About Disturbing Events
Description: This tip sheet offers parents suggestions for helping their children deal with frightening news events.
Talking to Children About Violence: Information for Parents and Educators
Description: This fact sheet from the National Association of School Psychologists offers suggestions to parents and school personnel to help children feel safe by establishing a sense of normalcy and security and talking with them about their fears, triggers by violence or tragedy, particularly in schools.
Talking to Children When the Unexpected Happens
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions on how to talk with their children during stressful times and help them deal with frightening situations or news events.
Description: A series of fact sheets on communicating in tough times.
Talking with Children - Communication
Author: Sasser, Diane (5 more by this author)
Description: During tough economic times, the strain on finances sometimes lead to separation/divorce. Among the first questions parents must answer in a separation or divorce are how, when and what to tell their children. Information on what children need to know and how parents can help children during a divorce is included.
Talking with Children When the Talking Gets Tough
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for talking with children during challenging periods of conflict, stress, or about difficult topics.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
Ten Secrets Teens Want You To Know!
Description: This article presents 10 things teenagers want their parents to know about the things that they really want most and the things that concern them the most.
Description: The Communicator is a monthly research update in the areas of food safety, family development, nutrition education and family economics from the University of Idaho School of Family and Consumer Sciences.
The Family Councils: The Key is Communication
Author: Suzanne McGarvey, Janet A. Clark
Description: This fact sheet describes the use of family councils; how and why they should work.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
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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.
Why Ranchers and Farmers Are Reluctant to Seek Counseling and How Family Practitioners Can Help
Author: Weigel, Randy (1 more by this author)
Description: This is an article on the social expectations of men in agriculture and how their potential need for a family counselor and practitioner has heightened within recent years.
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Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); James Marshall, University of Arkansas
Description: This program is focused on three keys for activating our hearts. When combined with our knowledge and skills, these keys can turn our differences and conflicts into harmony and growth.
Keeping in Touch- When Distance Keeps You Apart
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet with tips on how to stay in touch with relatives and family members separated by distance.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
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100 Ways for a Parent to Say "Very Good"
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: Provides a listing of ways for parents to say "very good" to their children and thereby promote high self-worth among their children.
A National Tragedy: Helping Children Cope
Description: This fact sheet from the National Association of School Psychologists offers suggestions to parents and teachers on how to help children feel safe by establishing a sense of normalcy and security and talking with them about their fears, triggers by violence occurring in schools.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: But Everybody's Doin It
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about peer pressure, decision-making, and risk-taking.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: Have You Talked with Your Teen Today?
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about issues that are important in shaping a young person's behavior and values.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: I'm In Love. I'm Not Gonna Get Pregnant
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about sex.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: Relax Mom, It's Only Pot!
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about marijuana.
Active Listening: A Communication Tool
Author: Perkins, Daniel (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on parenting teens and how active listening is a vital part of good parent-teen communications.
Building Family Strengths: Communications
Author: Thames, Brenda (9 more by this author); Deborah Thomason, Ed.D.
Description: This fact sheet on communication and the role it plays in the building and strengthening families provides age-appropriate suggestions to improve communications between parents and their children.
Caregiver Communication Skills: A Voice for Change
Author: Brintnall-Peterson, Mary (3 more by this author)
Description: This is an archived webinar about communication with family members, caregivers and the care receiver so that all can be prepared for difficulty conversations they may have been avoiding.
Chiquillos en Accion: 18-24 Meses
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet on communication with children 18-24 months.
Communicating Effectively with Children
Description: Provides an overview of communicating with children, communication styles and behaviors related to age of the child.
Communicating with Infant and Toddlers
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to improve communications with infant and toddlers.
Communicating with Young Children
Author: Harrelson, Peggy (2 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on establishing positive communications between parents and their children.
Communicating with Young Children
Description: This article explains the importance of communicating with young children.
Communicating with Your Teen: Negotiation
Description: This fact sheet provides information on communicating with your teen and learning to negotiate.
Communicating With Your Teen: Spending Time Together
Description: This fact sheet provides information on communicating with your teen and spending time together.
Communicating With Your Teen: Talking about Sex
Description: This fact sheet provides information on communicating with your teen about sex.
Communicating With Your Teen: Trust
Description: This fact sheet provides information on communicating with your teen and developing trust.
Communication: Building a Strong Bridge between You and Your Children
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for improving parent-child communications.
Communication: Celebrate Your Family
Description: A fact sheet series on strengthening families. Communication is a necessary ingredient in the life of a strong family if it is to be alive and grow.
Conversaciones con los ninos sobre el terrorismo
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (6 more by this author)
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet provides tips on how to talk with young children about acts of terroism and help them deal with associated fears and anxieties.
E-Parenting: Modern Parenting in a Digital World
Description: ParentFurther features technology and media resources from National Institute on Media and the Family.
Description: Effective Black Parenting (EBPP), a cognitive-behavioral program, was created to meet the specific needs of African-American parents. It seeks to foster effective family communication, healthy African-American identity, extended family values, child growth and development, and healthy self-esteem. In addition, it facilitates efforts to combat child abuse, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, gang violence, learning disorders, behavior problems, and emotional disturbances. The program is grounded in basic parenting strategies and information appropriate for all socio-economic status levels but especially for parents of children aged 2-12 years old. The program is taught in two formats: as a class with 15 three-hour training sessions that emphasize role playing and home behavior change projects, and a one-day seminar version for very large groups of parents. Black educators and mental health professionals teach a series of basic child management skills using African proverbs, African American linguistic forms and emphasizing African American achievement and competence. In addition, the interactive groups address: Respectful and Rule-Breaking Behaviors; Traditional and Modern Discipline; Black Pride; Black Self-disparagement; Coping with Racism; African Origin Family Values; Preventing Drug Use; and Single Parenting.
Explaining Divorce to Children
Author: Shriner, Joyce (2 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet on how parents can best handle and address the issues faced by having to explain their divorce to their children.
Description: Family Album Radio is a daily radio program on family issues, designed to help families improve their lives. This research based radio program on family life is distributed through National Public Radio and a companion website. Podcasts and MP3 files are archived on a host of topics including: parenting, relationships, caregiving, health, nutrition, family finances and home safety.
Family Communication During Times of Stress
Author: Matthews, D. (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet explains the sources of stress, its possible impacts, and ways to cope with it by communicating with family members.
Family Communication: Overcoming Obstacles
Author: Holmes, Patricia (4 more by this author); Marilyn A. Sachs
Description: This fact sheet provides information on ways families can overcome disputes through better, more focused communications.
Author: Strauss, Kevin
Description: Family eJournal is an interactive website that promotes family closeness by providing a
simple way for family members to express their thoughts and feelings to one another. Family eJournal's goal is to improve family connectedness by allowing parents and their children to share their thoughts and feelings through online, guided communication. Provides links to other resources and news articles related to family communication.
Description: Like other forms of parental involvement, research shows a positive relationship between frequent family dinners and positive teen behavioral outcomes. Teens who regularly have meals with their family are less likely to get into fights, think about suicide, smoke, drink, use drugs, and are more likely to have later initiation of sexual activity, and better academic performance than teens who do not. Research differences by race and ethnicity are addressed.
Description: This site presents simple, creative resources for enjoying meals as a family.
Free Parent Resources from Parent Effectiveness Training P.E.T.
Description: This website lists a series of free resources available from Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.).
Gatekeeping: Mom as a Pathway to Healthy Father Involvement
Description: This article provides research and practice tips for helping moms to engage dads in healthy ways.
Gender Issues: Communication Differences in Interpersonal Relationships
Author: Torppa, Cynthia (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses various ways gender issues influence communication and provides tips on how understanding these issues can improve relationships.
Author: Davis, Louise (1 more by this author)
Description: "Grandletters" is a correspondence program for grandparents and their grandchildren. It strengthens the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren who are separated by distance. In the program, 10 pairs of letters are exchanged between grandparent and grandchild, each focusing on a special issue or topic. The Mississippi State University Extension Service has three publications available for the Grandletters program: this publication (P1589), giving instructions for the program; one for grandchildren, listing suggestions for their letters on the 10 issues (P1590); and one for grandparents, listing suggestions for their letters on the 10 issues (P1591).
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Helping Grandchild Stay in Contact with Parents
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for grandparents raising their grandchildren, with tips for maintaining contact with the child's parents, what to expect, and how to cope with stresses of both the grandparents and grandchildren.
Helping Children Grow: Listening to Your Children
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on ways for parents to improve their communication with their children.
How to Help Children Cope with a Crisis
Description: In the wake of the bombing at the Boston Marathon, parents, teachers, grandparents and other caregivers are very concerned about how dramatic images of and discussion about the tragic event will affect the emotional well-being of their children. They are looking for advice on how to communicate with children.
How to Talk to Children about School Shooting
Description: WebMD talked to Leslie Garrard, PsyD, a child psychologist at Miami Children's Hospital, and Melissa Brymer, PhD, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. This is a summary of their best suggestions on what parents and others can do to help children cope with tragedy.
Keeping in Touch- When Distance Keeps You Apart
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for keeping families together and communicating when job requirements, further education, career changes, military assignment, and other situations arise and one person in the family needs to temporarily leave.
Kinship Care and Communication
Description: This research brief offers practical tips from recent research with families in which grandparents are raising their grandchildren and provides guidelines for implementing a successful Family Portraits Project series to support the development of positive communication and strengthened family dynamics in such families.
Let Your Infant of Toddler Teach You About Play
Description: A fact sheet containing suggestions on how parents can learn from their children through simple play activities.
Let's Talk About...Stuff That Matters
Description: This project was created as a resource for pre-teens and teens to learn new information about challenging issues and to open the door to positive communication.
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.
Media Awareness Network: for parents
Description: This site provides information to help parents talk to their children about media, gain control of the home entertainment playground, and speak out as consumers.
Memory Banking: Using Life Story as a Tool for Caregiving
Description: This is an archived webinar about "Memory Banking", a program that focuses on caregiving/care-receiving preparation and social support by improving partner communication through collective life story recording.
Microblogging with Presence Technologies: Go Tweet!
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: This dynamic technology trend takes advantage of our skills in texting or SMS. Presence Technologies enable short messages across Internet and mobile phones to send status updates called "tweets". It is being used in a variety of ways. The most popular of these is Twitter.
Nonverbal Communication: Teaching Your Child the Skills of Social Success
Author: Torppa, Cynthia (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses how parents can assess and help develop their children's nonverbal communication skills.
Description: ParentFurther seeks to build a unique community that provides access to support and practical, everyday steps to help with a wide range of parenting issues. ParentFurther is a project of Search Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization committed to helping create healthy communities for every child. helping create healthy communities for every child.
Parents and Teens Talking About Alcohol (Teen Talk Take and Teach CD)
Description: This CD was developed to help parents: Identify reasons teens use alcohol, explore and talk about their and their family's values related to alcohol, identify ways families influence teen alcohol use, and consider strategies for supporting their teens in making healthy decisions.
Description: A comprehensive reference list of books, research, studies and articles on family mealtimes compiled by the Promoting Family Meals Project at Purdue University.
Author: Wiley, Angela (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes how eating together at the table can improve family communication. Suggestions for maintaining this trend are provided.
Description: The NEA Health Information Network, through a generous grant from the Sprint Foundation, created The School Crisis Guide in order to foster the creation of crisis teams with the ideas, tips, tools, and, resources that spur effective leadership and crisis management.
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet stresses the importance of communicating love and acceptance to children.
SIECUS Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
Description: Provides information to help parents discuss healthy sexual development and sexuality issues with their children. Resources are available in both English and Spanish.
Description: Strong Families Eat Together from West Virginia University Extension presents a series of fact sheets aimed at improving health, family communications, nutrition, family traditions and character development.
Strong Families Eat Together: Control Their Weight: Involve Your Family in Healthy Mealtimes
Description: This article discusses the link between weight control and family mealtimes.
Strong Families Eat Together: What Are Kids Learning at the Dinner Table?
Description: This article discusses what kids can learn at the dinner table.
Success and the Single Parent: The Communication Puzzle
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This resource provides suggestions and activities for improving communication between the single parent and his/her children.
Talking So Young Children Understand
Author: Abell, Ellen (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips on improving parent-child communications.
Talking to Children When the Unexpected Happens
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions on how to talk with their children during stressful times and help them deal with frightening situations or news events.
Talking with Children When the Talking Gets Tough
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for talking with children during challenging periods of conflict, stress, or about difficult topics.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
Talking with Kids About Tough Issues
Description: This website offers practical tips and techniques for parents to use in talking easily and openly with children ages 8 to 12 about sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.
Talking with Moms about Engaging Dads
Description: This fact sheet is intended to help professionals engage mothers to engage the fathers of their children in healthy ways.
Teen Talk: A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers
Description: The Teen Talk fact sheet series is designed to help parents talk with teens about challenging topics, including: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, school, peer pressure, bullies, sports, employment, dating, and parties.
Telling the Kids You Lost Your Job
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to tell your children that you lost your job.
Telling the Kids You Lost Your Job Podcast
Description: This is a podcast on how to tell your children that you lost your job.
The Families with Teens program
Description: The Families with Teens program focuses on meeting the challenges of raising teens. The parent and family education offerings build family strengths including better family communication and decision-making, stronger parent-teen relationships, and more confident parenting.
The Stressed Family: Managing Conflict
Description: This is a fact sheet on managing conflict in your family.
The Stressed Family: Managing Conflict Podcast
Description: This is a podcast on managing conflict in your family.
Description: Time To Talk provides easy-to-use guides and tips to help you have ongoing conversations with your kids to keep them healthy and drug-free.
What Every Parent Should Know to Survive the College Years
Description: This resource is a recording of a lecture on information for parents with children in college.
Why Won't My Child Talk To Me?
Author: Merkowitz, Rose
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for improving parent-child communications.
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Connecting as a couple: Communication skills for healthy relationships
Description: This article reviews basic communication theory and lays the foundation for teaching emotional communication skills to couples.
Description: Like other forms of parental involvement, research shows a positive relationship between frequent family dinners and positive teen behavioral outcomes. Teens who regularly have meals with their family are less likely to get into fights, think about suicide, smoke, drink, use drugs, and are more likely to have later initiation of sexual activity, and better academic performance than teens who do not. Research differences by race and ethnicity are addressed.
Research Spotlight: Regular Family Dinners Offer Benefits to Modern Families
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: Research shows that regular family mealtimes have benefits for youth beyond good nutrition. According to several studies, they are less often to have risky behaviors, disordered eating, and their grades are better in school.