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America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2009
Description: This is the federal monitoring report on the status of the nation's children produced by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
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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"Do I Look Fat in This?": The Role of Mother Daughter Relationships in Determining Body Image 
Author: Baugh, Eboni (1 more by this author)
Description: This article highlights the importance of the relationship between mothers and daughters and the transmission of messages about food, diet, and body acceptance. It offers research highlights about this important relationship along with questions/resources for mothers and daughters.
"How Do [They] Even Do That?" Technology and American Teens
Author: Lenhart, Amanda (3 more by this author)
Description: Pew Internet and American Life Project: Do teens really send that many text messages a day? Is Twitter the next big thing among young adults? Are landlines obsolete? Using data from surveys and focus groups, this presentation examines the changes in technology use among young people.
35% of Teens Admit to Using Cell Phones to Cheat
Description: This article discusses a recent study that revealed more than 35% of teens admit to cheating with cell phones. The results highlight a real need for parents, educators, and leaders to start discussions on digital ethics.
A Guide for Educators: Bullying—What Educators Can Do About It
Description: 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.
Description: This article describes the characteristics of bullies and victims in comparison to non-bullying teens.
Description: Through research-based interventions, GLSEN provides resources and support for schools to implement effective and age-appropriate anti-bullying programs to improve school climate for all students. This website provides programs and resources to help all members of the school community address bullying in inclusive and effective ways.
Build Rapport to Facilitate Teen Behaviour
Description: This article discusses ways for parents to build rapport and better relationships with their teenagers.
Author: Durosimni, Brenda (1 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes bullying, the warning signs of a child who is bullied or who bullies others, and how parents can respond.
Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
Description: This article describes the characteristics of bullying, how parents can recognize if their child is being victimized and what parents can do to help. The author, Mark Lakewood, is a bullying prevention expert, author, and speaker with over 20 years of clinical experience as a family therapist.
Bullying: What Parents and Teachers Should Know
Description: A study conducted by the Kaiser Foundation found that 86% of children ages 12-15 said they get teased or bullied at school — making bullying more prevalent than smoking, alcohol, drugs, or sex among the same age group.
Bullying: A Big Problem with Big Consequences
Description: This guide (available on CD) was developed by University of Minnesota Extension to help parents understand how to identify a wide range of bullying behavior and understand reasons these behaviors occur; develop strategies to help teens handle bullying behavior-whether a bully, bullied, or a bystander; and learn appropriate steps to take if a teen is a bully, bullied or bystander.
Bullying: It’s Not Child’s Play
Author: Bixler, Mikki (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes bullying, the warning signs of a child who is bullied or who bullies others, and how parents can respond.
Children and Bullying: A Guide for Parents
Description: This guide describes the interactions of bullies and children who are bullied (across various ages) and how parents can respond.
Description: COLAGE is the only national and international organization in the world specifically supporting young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents.
Commonly Asked Questions: Anorexia Nervosa
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author); Samuel F. Sears
Description: "Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that has been gaining a lot of attention in the last 10 to 15 years. People with Anorexia use extreme measures to lose weight. They often become dangerously thin and suffer significant health problems as a result."
Commonly Asked Questions: Childhood Stuttering
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "Stuttering is a disorder of speech rhythm in which the speaker knows what he or she wants to say but has difficulty because of uncontrolled repetition, prolongation, or cessation (stopping of sound). Most people think..."
Cómo Ayudar a su Adolescente con la Tarea
Description: This article provides tips on how to help your teen with homework.
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "Conduct Disorder is a childhood behavior disorder characterized by a consistent pattern of violating the basic rights of others or major accepted rules or standards of behavior."
Description: This publication focuses on what educators can do to create safe learning spaces for all youth. It provides an overview of the developmental model for sexual identity, links to resources and definitions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
Crezca con su adolescente y enséñele valores
Description: According to research, teens say that the beliefs, values and actions of their parents or close adults sink in.
Description: A public advertising campaign aimed at preventing cyberbullying. Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens.
Description: Provides quick facts on what cyberbullying is and a series of link to resources on how to recognize and prevent cyberbullying.
Description: The Cyberbullying Research Center provides information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
Decision Making/Problem Solving With Teens
Author: Welker, J. Eileene (1 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet aimed at parents who want their children to grow up to be independent, responsible, happy adults.
Developing Emotionally Skilled Children
Author: Grumbach, Giesela
Description: Provides information about the emotional development of children and how parents can help their children gain control over emotions.
Educator’s Guide to Cyberbullying, Cyberthreats & Sexting
Description: There are increasing reports of children and teens using these technologies to post damaging text or images to bully their peers or engage in other aggressive behavior. There are also reports of teens posting material that raises concerns that they are considering an act of violence against others or themselves. More recently concerns of sending provocative nude or semi-nude images, a practice called “sexting” have emerged. This guide provides educators with insight into these concerns and guidelines to prevent and respond.
Enjoying Each Child as an Individual
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This publication discusses how all children have different rates of development and different personalities, and how knowing this can help parents be patient and learn to accept each child as an individual.
Excessive Mobile Phone Use Affects Sleep In Teens, Study Finds
Description: This article discusses the excessive use of cellphones.
Factsheet: Bullying and Gay Youth
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the challenges of being a teenager, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GBLT) teens in terms of having to deal with harassment, threats, and violence.
Description: Parent and family education helps you meet the challenges of raising teens. This program builds family strengths including better family communication and decision-making; stronger parent-teen relationships; and more confident parenting. Includes resources on how parents and teens can talk about difficult topics.
Fostering Resilience in Children
Author: Longo, Mary (4 more by this author); Mary Trickett; Kimberly A. Gordon Rouse
Description: "Contents:
The Definition of Resilience
Personal Characteristics Related to Resilience
Familial Environmental Factors
Academic Environmental Factors
Fostering Resilience
References"
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Description: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Established in 1990, GLSEN envisions a world in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Grow With Your Teens & Teach Values
Description: According to research, teens say that the beliefs, values and actions of their parents or close adults sink in.
Description: Supported by a grant from MetLife Foundation and developed by clinicians from The Children's Health Fund's National Children's Health Project Network, the Healthy K.I.D.S. program consists of English and Spanish newsletters which provide simple, accurate and cultural information on nutrition and fitness. Healthy K.I.D.S. newsletters are produced in accordance with low literacy writing and design conventions. Authors strive to incorporate ethnic and cultural diversity into all content and illustrations. Materials are field tested within CHF's National Network and are reviewed by a medical anthropologist for cross-cultural appropriateness, and an exercise physiologist for safety.
Helping Adolescents Cope with Grief
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on helping children through grief with effective communication.
Helping children leave the nest and gaining a better adult relationship
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article is aimed at helping parents cope with their children growing up and leaving home.
Helping Kids Deal with Bullies
Description: This website describes how to recognize bullying and how parents can help their child cope and get help. Available in English and Spanish.
Helping Your Children Succeed at Learning
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: A publication that guides you through your childs learning through four steps: Making your home a learning environment, planning family learning activities, starting early and adapt to the needs of your children, and work with other people who will help your children learn and develop.
Hooking up with Teens to Promote Healthy Relationships
Description: This resource aims to take teen-dating-violence prevention out of the classroom and into the realm of young people's Internet-infused lives.
How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth
Description: This article by Rosemary V. Barnett, University of Florida, presents a series of steps that extension agents, parents, and educators can take together to encourage involvement in creating a safe and fear-free learning environment.
How to Help Your Teen with Homework
Description: This article provides tips on how to help your teen with homework.
Improving Your Body Image: Tips for Individuals, Families, and Professionals
Author: Baugh, Eboni (1 more by this author)
Description: This article provides a general overview of body image and what constitutes a negative or positive body image. There are also tips for individuals, families, and professionals which can help foster a more positive body image.
Author: Nauert, Rick
Description: Traditionally, the family dinner has been viewed by sociologists as an event that provides support to children and adolescents, and generally improves family relationships.
Is Your Child Sexting? What Parents Need to Know
Description: Short article on what parents need to know about the risks, emotional as well as legal, of sexting.
Kids Count Pocket Guide African-American Children
Description: This pocket guide provides statistics on economic, educational, and social well-being for African American children and highlights gaps that persist between minority kids and non-Hispanic white children in the US. Derived from the 2000 Census, these booklets contain a national overview, state-by-state data, and state rankings.
Kids Count Pocket Guide Latino Children
Description: Latino Children Children Pocket Guide provide statistics on economic, educational, and social well-being for minority children and highlights gaps that persist between minority kids and non-Hispanic white children in the US. Derived from the 2000 Census, the booklet contains a national overview, state-by-state data and state rankings.
Description: KidsGrowth.com is a unique Web site tailored specifically toward the concerns and interests of today's parents. The site was developed and created by well-respected medical leaders in the field of pediatrics and adolescent medicine.
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.
Living with Your Teenager: Understanding Changes in Thinking Changes (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publication describes the mental changes that your teenager may go through. This publication will help you understand them better.
Living with Your Teenager: Understanding Emotional Changes (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author); Judith O. Hooper
Description: This publication will help you understand the changes that occur in your teenager through their critical growing years.
Author: Glasser, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: News For Parents.org provides news and information to parents. Contains up-to-date information on issues that are important to parents, such as education, expectant parents, family and home, health and development, special needs and medical challenges.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "Oppositional Defiant Disorder(ODD) is a diagnosis given to children who display a pattern of negative and defiant behavior to parents, teachers and others who have authority over them."
PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention
Description: The mission of PACER Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) is to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents. PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention unites, engages, and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant, and interactive resources.
Parent Education and Support Literature Review
Author: Brown, Margaret
Description: List of links for parental education
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This article provides information on parenting teens.
Description: This site was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
Preventing Cyberbullying: Top Ten Tips for Educators
Description: This fact sheet from the Cyberbullying Research Institute provides 10 tips for preventing cyberbullying in schools and communities.
Description: NIHCM Foundation: This issue brief reviews the need for confidential care delivery for adolescents, legal protections in place, and health insurance system barriers to delivering confidential care. It recommends strategies for health insurers to assure that their billing processes are protecting adolescents' access to confidential care.
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This website has a variety of different types of information for parents and educators. "Book" includes the chapter outline and purchase links for Raising Courageous Kids. "Game" describes the Challenge to Valor card game I have created that illustrates the Circle of Valor sequence found in the book. "Guides" includes suggestions for five reading groups: parents, grandparents, teachers, teens, and faith-based discussants. "Course" includes a short conversational course on courage for individual users and links to other online courses by the author.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article presents an overview of successful parental monitoring of teenagers.
Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action
Description: This report has been written to heighten media and public attention to both a crisis and an opportunity. The report focuses on the risks faced by teenagers from violence, mental illness, abuse, neglect, inadequate education, substance abuse, poverty, and other sources that profoundly jeopardize their futures.
Relationships Matter: Strengthening Vulnerable Youth
Description: This article provides a discussion of relationship education from a youth development perspective.
Description: "Scared straight" programs have long been wildly popular in this country as a get-tough response to juvenile crime. They typically involve bringing at-risk youths into an adult prison, where they are confronted — in shocking and brutal fashion — by adult inmates. These programs may include tours of the facility and personal stories from prisoners and may even integrate the youths into the prison population for up to a day.
Student Transition from Middle to High School-fact sheet
Description: This article provides information for parents on a child’s transition from Middle to High School.
Description: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health.
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 Violence
Description: This website is geared toward helping parents talk with their children about sex, violence, HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, and healthy development.
Teen Texting Soars; Will Social Skills Suffer?
Description: This article discusses the negative impact texting may have on social skills.
Description: This fact sheet describes internet risks, including cyberbullying, and outlines ways to protect youth from harm.
Description: Information for parents to help them help their teenager achieve success in school.
Teens are naturally prone to risk-taking: It's the parents' role to keep them safe
Description: This article discusses the risk-taking of teenagers and how parents can protect them.
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.
Texting and Driving: A Killing Combination
Description: This video discusses consequences of texting while driving.
Description: This article discusses the negative impacts texting may have on teens.
The Teen Talk Fact Sheet Series
Author: Dworkin, Jodi (10 more by this author)
Description: The Teen Talk Five Fact Sheet Series helps parents talk with their teens about drinking, pot, peer pressure, and sex, and provides great info on how to talk with teens.
Tips for Parents: Dealing with the School Bully
Description: This fact sheet describes how to know if your child is being bullied and what to do about it.
Description: Sexting usually refers to teens sharing nude photos via electronic media, such as cellphones and the Internet. This fact sheet outlines some of the legal and psychological consequences.
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.
WHAT MAKES A CHILD MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE DATING ABUSE AS A TEEN?
Description: A study published last year traces the relationship between teen dating violence and children's earlier family life and behavior.
What Parents Can Do About Childhood Bullying
Description: This resource is aimed at helping parents recognize the signs that a child is a bully, as well as the signs of one who is being victimized. Includes information focused on children who have a learning disability (LD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), conditions that can make children more vulnerable to bullying.
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Bullying: Resources for Parents
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents to help their child cope with being bullied at school.
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See the World Through My Eyes: Understanding the Child's Journey of Development
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This archived recording of a 90-minute webinar is based on "See the World Through My Eyes," an "ages-and-stages" program developed by the family life team at the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension aimed at improving parent-child relationships.
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"Do I Look Fat in This?": The Role of Mother Daughter Relationships in Determining Body Image
Author: Baugh, Eboni (1 more by this author)
Description: This article highlights the importance of the relationship between mothers and daughters and the transmission of messages about food, diet, and body acceptance. It offers research highlights about this important relationship along with questions/resources for mothers and daughters.
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.
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.
Abuelos Criando a sus Nietos: La adolescencia
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet offers suggestions for grandparents raising teenage grandchildren to keep communication lines open at all times, and stresses the importance of grandparents being approachable.
Adolescent Growth and Development
Author: Huebner, Angela (4 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet that describes what happens to teens physically, cognitively, and socially, how these transitions affect teens, what adults can do, and what support resources are available.
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.
American Camp Association (Spanish)
Description: CampParents.org es un recurso completo para las familias que ofrece consejo profesional de expertos en campamentos sobre la selección de campamento, el momento preciso, el desarrollo infantil y juvenil, y asuntos importantes para las familias.
At the Heart of Their Art: Teaching Guide
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: Goals: Participants will understand the developmental changes associated with
artistic development and will know how to directly support creativity and artistic
growth in children.
At Your Doorstep: Creating Family Connections Outdoors
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Lucy Bradley, Liz Driscoll
Description: Families who spend time outside together with their children in natural environments can increase their physical activity, connect family members with one another, and connect children with nature. This webinar focuses on a new toolkit, At Your Doorstep, developed by educators at North Carolina State University, aimed at increasing opportunities for parents and children to spend more time together outdoors.
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 Partnerships for Youth
Description: This website provides you with youth development program options to help youth, ages 9-13, in your community make healthy choices. It also provides valuable resources to make implementing these programs easier
Description: This article discusses the identification, consequences, and prevention of bullying.
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: Resources for Parents
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents to help their child cope with being bullied at school.
Bullying: What Educators Can Do About It
Author: Perkins, Daniel (18 more by this author)
Description: This 12-page publication offers advice to educators on what they can do about bullying. It includes sections on forms of bullying, strategies for teachers and schools, references, other resources, classroom activities, classroom interventions, and children's books related to bullying.
Bullying: What Parents Can Do About It
Author: Perkins, Daniel (18 more by this author)
Description: 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.
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.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is a Spanish version of the article “Bulliesâ€. The translation was done by Melanie Eitzen.
Author: Moore, Kristin (7 more by this author)
Description: This is a clearinghouse for the latest national trends and research on key indicators of child and youth well-being.
Description: This training was developed to educate child welfare professionals about substance abuse and mental health disorders among families involved in he child welfare system. It is intended to provide learning opportunities and baseline knowledge on substance abuse and mental health problems and interventions; motivate and facilitate cross-systems work; and incorporate cultural awareness and facilitate cultural competency in child welfare practice.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Children aren't born aggressive, they learn it. However, children, parents, and caregivers also can learn how to cope with aggression. This guide answers some questions about aggression and how to teach social coping skills to children.
Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety and Depression: What's Influencing our Youth Today?
Description: This PowerPoint presentation discusses childhood and adolescent anxiety and depression.
Children and Media -parent guide
Description: This parent guide describes the effects of media on children and provides tips on how to prevent some negative media influences.
Commonly Asked Questions: Bulimia Nervosa
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author); Samuel F. Sears
Description: A fact sheet that describes bulimia nervosa, its symptoms, medical complications, psychological factors, and treatment.
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.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo durante los primeros años de la adolescencia -- La serie de Ayudando a su niño
Description: Based on the latest research in adolescent development and learning, this booklet addresses questions, provides suggestions and tackles issues that parents of young teens generally find most challenging.
Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults (CRPSIB)
Description: The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults (CRPSIB) offers a variety of educational factsheets, narrated presentations, and other resources to inform parents, adults working with youth, and youth themselves about non-suicidal self-injury.
Author: Gable, Sara (5 more by this author)
Description: The objective of this publication is to broaden understanding about the
creative process for parents and others who work with children and youth. Recipes are included.
Deciding about Early Dating (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses dating as in time a boy and girl spend time together unsupervised, outside of school, church, or community group activities.
Description: A fact sheet on the difference between discipline and punishment in parenting teenagers.
Discipline: Teaching School Age Children Social Skills
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet includles effective discipline techniques for school-age children.
Description: This documentary featuring families affected by texting while behind the wheel is being distributed to educators, government officials, safety organizations and public as part of an educational awareness campaign.
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: 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.
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 clearinghouse for families and professionals with dealing with troubled and at-risk teens provides comprehensive information and resources on topics such as parenting, counseling and therapy, emotional and physical health and substance abuse. Includes a state-by-state directory of support services.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: The Teenage Years
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a brief overview of puberty, risks teenagers face (such as sex, alcohol and other drugs), and the importance of open lines of communication as grandparents face raising their teenage grandchildren.
Description: Comprendemos que no siempre es fácil hablar con tus hijos sobre el peligro de las drogas y el alcohol. Aquí encontrarás guías y consejos simples y prácticos para ayudarte a conversar con tus hijos y protegerlos.
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about parties.
Description: Supported by a grant from MetLife Foundation and developed by clinicians from The Children's Health Fund's National Children's Health Project Network, the Healthy K.I.D.S. program consists of English and Spanish newsletters which provide simple, accurate and cultural information on nutrition and fitness. Healthy K.I.D.S. newsletters are produced in accordance with low literacy writing and design conventions. Authors strive to incorporate ethnic and cultural diversity into all content and illustrations. Materials are field tested within CHF's National Network and are reviewed by a medical anthropologist for cross-cultural appropriateness, and an exercise physiologist for safety.
Helping Your Child Through Early Adolescence
Description: Based on the latest research in adolescent development and learning, this booklet addresses questions, provides suggestions and tackles issues that parents of young teens generally find most challenging.
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.
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.
Improving Your Body Image: Tips for Individuals, Families, and Professionals
Author: Baugh, Eboni (1 more by this author)
Description: This article provides a general overview of body image and what constitutes a negative or positive body image. There are also tips for individuals, families, and professionals which can help foster a more positive body image.
Author: Lee-Rude, Marie
Description: A fact sheet for helping parents manage conflict with their teenagers.
I’m in Love. I’m Not Gonna Get Pregnant!
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about sex.
Keeping Young People out of Trouble
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet explains the difference and signs of serious problems in young people.
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.
Living With Your Teenager: Understanding Physical Changes
Description: The years of late childhood and early adolescence contain one of the most rapid and most dramatic periods of physical change in the human life cycle. It may be useful for the parent of a teen or teen-to-be to understand what is happening during this stage of development.
Living with Your Teenager: Understanding Physical Changes Changes (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author); Judith O. Hooper
Description: This fact sheet is designed to help parents of teenagers understand what is happening in terms of adolescent development. Contains tips to support your child through this difficult time.
Monitoring Your Child’s Internet Use -fact sheet
Description: This article discusses the dangers of cyberspace and how to monitor your child’s use.
Monitoring: Staying Involved in Your Teen's Life
Author: Sachs, Shannon (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides information on parental monitoring and involvement and provides tips on ways to increase a parent's and family's closeness and support.
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.
New Trends in U.S. Births and Fertility Rates
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (3 more by this author)
Description: This news release summarizes new trends in birth and fertility rates. Teen birth rates have declined to the lowest rate ever reported in the United States. The rates are down by nearly one-third since 1991, from 61.8 per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19 to 41.6 per 1,000 in 2003. However, the percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades with over one-quarter of births to women ages 25 to 29 and over half of the births to women ages 20 to 25 to unmarried women.
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: The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) coordinates adolescent health promotion and disease prevention programs and initiatives.
Description: On the CDC Parent Portal you will find a wealth of information from across all of CDC, covering everything from safety at home and the community to immunization schedules and developmental milestones.
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.
Parenting Styles and Adolescents
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: This research brief provides an overview of research on parenting styles and their impact on adolescent development. It is intended primarily as a guide for parent educators and other professionals working with parents of teens. A resource from Cornell University's Parenting in Context project.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet addresses common misconceptions and myths about teenagers. Suggests strategies parents can use understand and nurture their teenagers.
Parenting Wisely (American Teen)
Description: Parenting Wisely (American Teen) is an interactive CD-ROM program designed for parents of adolescents and pre-adolescents (ages 8-18). Parenting Wisely (American Teen) requires parents to have neither previous computer experience nor the ability to read (the computer reads all text aloud). Strong empirical evidence exists that using Parenting Wisely (American Teen) reduces child behavior problems, delinquency and substance abuse among adolescents, improves parenting knowledge and skills, and strengthens the relationship between adolescent and parent.
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: This site was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
Preteen, Young Teen Development Changes (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publication discusses typical changes, as well as individual differences among adolescents, preteen through teen years.
Raising Courageous Kids Educator Resources
Description: Provides a series of handouts geared to raising healthy children for use in parent educator workshops and presentations.
Author: Clark, Lois (4 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions for raising more responsible children.
Description: Raising Teens pulls together current research on the parenting of adolescents and presents key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents.
Sex Between Young Teens and Older Individuals: A Demographic Portrait
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (3 more by this author); Erum Ikramullah; Janet Liechty; Kristin Moore
Description: This Child Trends research brief is based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (2002). It presents the results of studies on teen sexuality, especially sex between young teens and older individuals.
Sólo Estoy Enamorada, ¡No me Voy a Embarazar!
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about sex.
Stay Connected: Enhancing Parent-Teen Relationships
Author: Kerpelman, Jennifer (2 more by this author)
Description: This website has many ideas for parent & teen activities in different areas, such as communication, planning, autonomy, support, and education. In addition the site contains links to parent & teen websites, parent-teen video messages, and resources for military families.
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.
Supporting your Adolescent: Tips for Parents
Description: A guide for parents including tips for parenting teenagers and parenting resources.
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.
Teaching Responsibility to Preteens, Teens (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet offers ways, aimed at young people between the ages of 10 and 18, for parents to help their children learn about responsibility and solve
problems at home or school.
Description: These resources provide information on the lives of teenagers and how to talk to them.
Description: The Teen Talk Fact Sheet Series consists of twelve 2-page fact sheets. Intended for parents, the series can be invaluable as a "survival guide" for any parent or caregiver of teenagers. The fact sheets guide parents through discussions with their teenagers around twelve topics.
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.
Teens and Family Responsibilities
Author: Schroeder, Mary
Description: This fact sheet contains suggestions for helping parents help their teenagers develop responsibility.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions aimed at helping parents become more involved in their child's school work.
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: textED.ca is an innovative and interactive website designed to teach Canadian teens how to be safe, responsible and respectful users of texting technologies.
The Camp Resource for Families
Description: CampParents.org is a comprehensive camp resource for families—offering expert advice from camp professionals on camp selection, readiness, child and youth development, and issues of importance to families.
The Changing Parent-Child Relationship: Struggles between Parents and Teens are Normal
Author: Hooper, Judith; Virginia Molgaard
Description: This fact sheet describes the changing relationship between parent and child as the child becomes a teenager.
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 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.
Description: This site gives information on bullying; including articles entitled bullying fundamentals, from teasing to bullying, bullying facts, responding to bullying, from victim to target, from spectator to witness. As well as activities for workshops.
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about parties.
Think Your Teen Needs Counseling?
Description: This article addresses parents who seek counseling for their teenaged son or daughter.
Underage Alcohol Use: An Introduction
Description: This website is geared to helping parents help their children steer clear of alcohol and involves helping them feel safe, supported, and nurturing their children’s personal values and skills to make smart decisions.
Understanding Children: Self-Esteem
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet defines and describes the development of self-esteem in young children. The author suggests ways that parents can foster healthy self-esteem in their children. A list of children's books is also included.
What Parents Need to Know About Self-Injury in Adolescents
Author: Whitlock, Janis (5 more by this author)
Description: The increase in the number of youth who self-injure is alarming for adults who work with or parent youth. Associated mainly with the term "cutting", self-injury can also include behaviors such as carving, burning, scratching, punching oneself or other objects, and bone breaking. This workshop summarized what is known about the prevalence and nature of self-injurious behavior in the general youth population, and about how the behavior may be spreading. It included results from a New York State study on self-injury in schools and recommendations for detecting, intervening, and preventing it.
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.
Description: Zip4Tweens is designed to help families find a balanced approach to a healthier lifestyle, using the "MyPyramid" guidelines.
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Description: The results of this strength-based study, with 345 male and 326 female youth, highlight changes in interpersonal and intrapersonal strengths. Findings are interpreted from an ecological systems perspective and the involvement of various adults, particularly parents, in youth development programs is encouraged.
Description: Findings of this study show that disclosure is mainly determined by a complex interplay of factors related to child characteristics, family environment, community influences, and cultural and societal attitudes.
Description: Research continues to indicate a concerning number of children and youth, between 60-80%, withhold disclosure until
adulthood suggesting that many children endure prolonged victimization or never receive necessary intervention. The study aim was to qualitatively identify factors that impede or promote child sexual abuse disclosure.
Description: This study examines the demographic differences in decision-making among early and middle adolescents who have participated in a community-based service-learning project. Overall, the respondents indicated that they gained decision-making skills as a result of service-learning.
Author: Moore, Kristin (7 more by this author)
Description: This is a clearinghouse for the latest national trends and research on key indicators of child and youth well-being.
Child Trends' Research Brief: The School Environment and Adolescent Well-Being: Beyond Academics
Author: Marin, Pilar; Brett Brown
Description: This brief is designed to be of particular interest to school principals, district staff, and others who are responsible for all aspects of school functioning. It should also be useful to those focusing on a narrower range
of school functions (e.g., academics, health and safety, civic development) who want a better sense of how their concerns fit into the larger environment.
Author: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne (1 more by this author); Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue
Description: America's young people spend more time using media than they do on any single activity other than sleeping. The pervasiveness of electronic media in the lives of children makes it important for policymakers, educators, parents, and advocates to know what research shows and what questions remain unanswered about how America's youth use electronic media and how it affects them.
Exploring the Links Between Family Strengths and Adolescent Outcomes
Author: Moore, Kristin (7 more by this author)
Description: This Research Brief reports on the results of new Child Trends study conducted by America’s Promise Alliance. The findings indicate that family strengths are associated with significantly better outcomes for adolescents in both lower-income families and higher-income families. The authors found that adolescents from families that have these strengths are more likely to perform well in school, to avoid risky behaviors, and to demonstrate positive social behaviors than are adolescents from families that lack these strengths.
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.
Highlights From Pathways to Desistance: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Adolescent Offenders
Description: This fact sheet presents an overview of some major findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study, a project that followed 1,354 serious adolescent offenders for 7 years following their convictions. The primary findings of the study to date deal with the decrease in self-reported offending over time by most serious adolescent offenders, the effectiveness of community-based supervision as a component of aftercare for incarcerated youth, and the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment in reducing both substance use and offending by serious adolescent offenders.
Holistic Assessment in School-Based, Developmental Prevention
Description: This article argues a holistic assessment tool can guide the prevention services to address the individual needs of adolescents and to ideally support their developmental and learning capacity. The implications for practitioners are discussed.
New Study Shows Link Between Sleep and Children's Weight
Description: This research brief highlights a recent study on the connection between sleep and children's weight, and includes suggestions for parents.
New Trends in U.S. Births and Fertility Rates
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (3 more by this author)
Description: This news release summarizes new trends in birth and fertility rates. Teen birth rates have declined to the lowest rate ever reported in the United States. The rates are down by nearly one-third since 1991, from 61.8 per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19 to 41.6 per 1,000 in 2003. However, the percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades with over one-quarter of births to women ages 25 to 29 and over half of the births to women ages 20 to 25 to unmarried women.
Parenting and Adolescent Development
Description: This research brief covers findings on parental monitoring and adolescent disclosure and adolescent information management and autonomy.
Description: Raising Teens pulls together current research on the parenting of adolescents and presents key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents.
Raising Teens : A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action
Author: Simpson, A. (3 more by this author)
Description: This report pulls together current research on the parenting of adolescents and distills from it key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents. Particular emphasis was placed on identifying those conclusions about the parenting of adolescents about which there is widespread agreement among researchers and practitioners. The report concludes that, contrary to popular perception, there is significant agreement within research findings about important basic principles for raising teenagers in the U.S. today. These central ideas, which cut across a broad range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives, are encapsulated in clear, short charts and summaries within the report.
Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action
Author: Simpson, A. (3 more by this author)
Description: This article is the culmination of a groundbreaking initiative to pull together current research on the parenting of adolescents and to distill from it key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents.
You will find a set of Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents, with a list of strategies for each. Also featured is a list of Ten Tasks of Adolescence, which delineates the main aspects of adolescent development that parents and other adults need to be aware of and support.
Research Spotlight: Regular Family Dinners Offer Benefits to Modern Families
Author: Nordby, Ann (24 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.
Description: Scared Straight and other programs involve organized visits to prison facilities by juvenile delinquents or at-risk kids to deter them from delinquency. Despite several research studies and reviews questioning their effectiveness, they remain in use and have now been tried in at least six nations. The authors report here on the results of a systematic review of randomized experimental tests of this program.
Author: Ariel, Janet
Description: This is a summary of research on raising teenagers. In Spanish.
Sex Between Young Teens and Older Individuals: A Demographic Portrait
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (3 more by this author); Erum Ikramullah; Janet Liechty; Kristin Moore
Description: This Child Trends research brief is based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (2002). It presents the results of studies on teen sexuality, especially sex between young teens and older individuals.
Sexual Health Statistics for Teenagers and Young Adults in the United States
Description: This is a fact sheet on teen sexual activity that covers a broad range of sexual health topics facing teens including general sexual activity, sexual partners and relationships, sex, substance abuse and violence, pregnancy, contraception and protection, STDs, health care and communication.
Description: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health.
Description: Brief research update from Harvard University about the ways in which adolescent brain development differs from adults, and how this may account for quirky adolescent behavior and help parents understand their teenagers behavior.
Author: Aufseeser, Dena; Brett Brown; Susan Jekielek
Description: This research brief reports on data about teens experiences in their families with a particular focus on differences across social groups. The purpose of the brief is to identify where disparities exist and where needs for intervention are greatest. The brief concludes with a discussion on implications for parenting and for policy.
The Roles of Parenting and Child Welfare Services in Alcohol Use by Adolescents
Description: This study examined the impact of child maltreatment on adolescents' alcohol use, taking into account parental drinking and the involvement of child welfare services in the adolescents' lives.
The Spring 2010 issue of the "The Future of Children,"
Description: The Spring 2010 issue of the "The Future of Children," is focused on the transition to adulthood.
What Parents Need to Know About Self-Injury in Adolescents
Author: Whitlock, Janis (5 more by this author)
Description: The increase in the number of youth who self-injure is alarming for adults who work with or parent youth. Associated mainly with the term "cutting", self-injury can also include behaviors such as carving, burning, scratching, punching oneself or other objects, and bone breaking. This workshop summarized what is known about the prevalence and nature of self-injurious behavior in the general youth population, and about how the behavior may be spreading. It included results from a New York State study on self-injury in schools and recommendations for detecting, intervening, and preventing it.
What's New: Parenting and Adolescent Development
Description: This research brief provides an overview of the current research on parenting adolescents. It is intended primarily as a guide for parent educators and other professionals working with parents and caregivers of teens.
Youth from Distressed Neighborhoods
Description: This fact sheet is part of a series on vulnerable youth and the transition to adulthood. The project examined the role of different aspects of youth vulnerability and risk-taking behaviors on several outcomes for young adults. The data come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort. The analyses compare the adolescent risk behaviors and young adult outcomes of youth from distressed neighborhoods with those of youth from non-distressed neighborhoods.
Youth from Low-Income Families
Description: This fact sheet compares the young adult outcomes and adolescent risk-taking behaviors of youth from low-income families to those from middle-income and high-income families.
Description: The transition to adulthood can be particularly challenging when a young adult experiences mental health problems. This fact sheet uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to explore the young adult outcomes and adolescent risk behaviors of youth suffering from depression and anxiety as they make this transition.