Social skills
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Description: This website provides links to resources that address the topic of social skills.
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Description: This is an article about the Family Check-Up, a user-friendly, web-based self-assessment tool for families. The tool provides immediate feedback to the user and would have multiple programming applications. These programming applications include needs assessment, access to Extension educational materials and programming, enhancement of collaboration and referrals among family and consumer science disciplines, program marketing, and potential outcome evaluation tools.
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Dealing With Anger in a Marriage 
Author: Recker, Nancy (5 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet discussing misconceptions of anger, how people cover up anger, how anger can actually be healthy in a relationship and how to resolve anger.
Encouraging Social Skills in Young Children: Tips Teachers Can Share with Parents
Description: This article discusses how parents can encourage social skills in young children.
Family Mealtime -- A Tradition that Isn't Being Skipped
Description: This site provides a link to an article that discusses the importance of family mealtime.
Family Mealtimes Teach Good Nutrition
Author: Picklesimer, Phyllis (2 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses how family mealtimes benefit children nutritionally and emotionally.
Five Ways for Parents to Prepare a First-Time Camper for the Experience
Description: Sending a child away to camp for the first time is an important milestone for most families, one that often includes a great deal of excitement, planning, anticipation, and perhaps even some anxiety and fear of the unknown. This website provides some tips from camp professionals and child development experts for preparing a child for camp.
Author: McClellan, Deborah (4 more by this author)
Description: Dining out with young children can be a pleasant event for the whole family. It also provides a chance to teach your child how to act away from home. This article provides tips on how to control what happens while eating out.
Author: McCoy, Janice
Description: This article discusses how to make mealtimes more manageable.
Reclaiming the Family Table (Abridged)
Author: Wiley, Angela (2 more by this author)
Description: For many American families, shared mealtimes are less and less common. This fact sheet shares tips to help increase the number of meals families have together.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This video discusses rudeness.
Spending Time with Your Children
Description: This fact sheet, aimed at parents, provides suggestions for spending "quality" time with the family. It focuses on how the many informal situations in daily life provide occasions for learning important life lessons and building important skills.
Teen Texting Soars; Will Social Skills Suffer?
Description: This article discusses the negative impact texting may have on social skills.
The 20-Minute Mealtime: Brief Encounters that Promote Resiliency
Description: This site provides an article discussing how the typical 20 minutes at an evening meal provide important time for family members to reconnect, communicate, and participate in a ritual that symbolizes commitment and continuity to the participants.
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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Helping Military Families Create Systems of Social Support
Description: This is an archived version of a 60-minute web conference presented by the Family Development concentration of eXtension's Military Families Learning Community. Dennis K. Orthner, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Andrew Behnke, Ph.D., North Carolina State University discuss helping military families develop/strengthen social support systems and specific strategies to help military families promote family well-being.
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Description: This is an article about the Family Check-Up, a user-friendly, web-based self-assessment tool for families. The tool provides immediate feedback to the user and would have multiple programming applications. These programming applications include needs assessment, access to Extension educational materials and programming, enhancement of collaboration and referrals among family and consumer science disciplines, program marketing, and potential outcome evaluation tools.
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.
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008
Description: The report highlights selected indicators such as family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.
Best Practices: Personal and Social Skills
Description: This page provides information on the importance of personal and social skills as well as providing other documents on the topic.
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.
Family Mealtime -- A Tradition that Isn't Being Skipped
Description: This site provides a link to an article that discusses the importance of family mealtime.
Family Mealtimes Teach Good Nutrition
Author: Picklesimer, Phyllis (2 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses how family mealtimes benefit children nutritionally and emotionally.
Helping Children Grow: Developing Social Skills
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions and tips for helping their children develop healthy social skills.
Helping Children Grow: Developing Social Skills
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions and tips for helping their children develop healthy social skills.
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: McClellan, Deborah (4 more by this author)
Description: Dining out with young children can be a pleasant event for the whole family. It also provides a chance to teach your child how to act away from home. This article provides tips on how to control what happens while eating out.
Author: McCoy, Janice
Description: This article discusses how to make mealtimes more manageable.
Parenting Skills Workshop Series (PSWS)
Author: Bailey, John (1 more by this author); Sandra Wilkins; Susan Perkins
Description: This workshop manual is designed for professionals working with parents who may not learn well from text-based teaching approaches. Basic parenting skills are presented in a hands-on learning format suitable for any level of literacy. Originally designed for court-mandated parents, this workshop has proved successful with a broad audience. Ordering information provided through this site.
Parenting Skills Workshop Series (PSWS) PDF version
Author: Bailey, John (1 more by this author); Sandra Wilkins; Susan Perkins
Description: This workshop manual is designed for professionals working with parents who may not learn well from text-based teaching approaches. Basic parenting skills are presented in a hands-on learning format suitable for any level of literacy. Originally designed for court-mandated parents, this workshop has proved successful with a broad audience.
Reclaiming the Family Table (Abridged)
Author: Wiley, Angela (2 more by this author)
Description: For many American families, shared mealtimes are less and less common. This fact sheet shares tips to help increase the number of meals families have together.
The 20-Minute Mealtime: Brief Encounters that Promote Resiliency
Description: This site provides an article discussing how the typical 20 minutes at an evening meal provide important time for family members to reconnect, communicate, and participate in a ritual that symbolizes commitment and continuity to the participants.
The Importance of Friendship for School-Age Children
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Anne M. Fugate
Description: This publication focuses on the importance of friendships to school-age children's healthy development. Research has found that children who lack friends can suffer from emotional and mental difficulties later in life.
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Description: This is an article about the Family Check-Up, a user-friendly, web-based self-assessment tool for families. The tool provides immediate feedback to the user and would have multiple programming applications. These programming applications include needs assessment, access to Extension educational materials and programming, enhancement of collaboration and referrals among family and consumer science disciplines, program marketing, and potential outcome evaluation tools.
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008
Description: The report highlights selected indicators such as family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.
Best Practices: Personal and Social Skills
Description: This page provides information on the importance of personal and social skills as well as providing other documents on the topic.
Encouraging Social Skills in Young Children: Tips Teachers Can Share with Parents
Description: This article discusses how parents can encourage social skills in young children.