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– Evaluation –
Strengthening Families Program Statewide Outcomes 
Description: This research brief documents the successful implementation of Iowa State University's "Strengthening Families Program" offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators from January through November, 2007 across five New York counties and in New York City.
– General Information –
Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder: Strategies for Success
Author: Holladay, Susan
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to recognize ADHD and how to deal with it when you or you think someone you know has it.
Author: Abell, Ellen (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet geared to helping parents understand the difference between loving and spoiling.
At the Heart of Their Art: Understanding Children through What They Create
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: "Every child is born an artist. Activities such as drawing, painting, and sculpting
are a part of human nature, and every healthy human being experiences the urge to create and to communicate through their creations."
Being Understanding: A Key to Developing Healthy Children
Description: A publication that guides you through the process of understanding your children. On this html you can learn what to and not to do when listening to your child. You can also learn how to understand a very young child and how to show understanding and still discipline your child. This is a very informative resources. (also available in PDF)
Description: Are you up on the latest research about bullying in childhood and adolescence? Do you have the information you need to guide parents and decision-makers in your communities toward effective responses? In this archived "Just In Time Parenting" webinar, Dr. Stephen Erath reviews the latest research on bullying, as well as the effectiveness of various prevention and intervention approaches.
Characteristics of Positive Parent-Child Interactions: Autonomy
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: From the Parenting in Context website, this fact sheet provides strategies for parenting adolescents.
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.
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."
Gender Issues: Preparing Children for a Lifetime of Success
Author: Torppa, Cynthia (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on looking past the averages and stereotypes assigned to each gender.
If Only . . . Detecting the Early Warning Signs for Suicide in Children
Author: Bard, Ella Mae
Description: This is a fact sheet on the warning signs of detecting suicide tendencies of children.
Author: Matthews, D. (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses communication and the "science" of listening.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how caring for yourself, understanding, nurturing, guiding, motivating, and advocating are primary parts of effective parenting. Also contains information on the stages of parenting and the different types of parenting.
Parenting Site - Wisconsin Extension
Description: Newsletters on a variety of parenting issues. These newsletters are age-paced and research based.
Description: Jody Johnston Pawel hosts discussions on parenting topics. You can participate/listen live or through recorded show topics.
Secrets of Parenting 6, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen Debord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on ways to nurture and understand. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Description: Our See Saw section gives you a chance to tell us how you would solve a particular parenting problem, and then read how other parents would handle a similar situation.
The challenge of being a parent
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: A webpage describing the challenges of parents and the important things parents can do for their children?
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet contains useful information regarding teens' online use, including descriptions of terms and the benefits and drawbacks of various social networking media, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, IM, and text messaging.
– Professional Development –
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author); Judy Myers-Walls; Wally Goddard; Dot Cudaback
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes. Together, these practices identified issues that Extension professionals across the entire United States could agree were important.
– Programming Resource –
Author: Abell, Ellen (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet geared to helping parents understand the difference between loving and spoiling.
Are You Serious About the Rules You Make?
Description: This article discusses the importance of following through with the rules parents make for their children.
Description: Basic Parenting is a comprehensive parent education program that focuses on 80 principles and skills that form the foundation for effective parenting. The program is based on the National Extension Parent Education Model and is designed for parents who are experiencing adversity in childrearing. Materials for parents are written at about the sixth grade level but are suitable for audiences at higher reading levels.
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.
Description: Are you up on the latest research about bullying in childhood and adolescence? Do you have the information you need to guide parents and decision-makers in your communities toward effective responses? In this archived "Just In Time Parenting" webinar, Dr. Stephen Erath reviews the latest research on bullying, as well as the effectiveness of various prevention and intervention approaches.
Description: This article provides insight into what it is like for a child learning to talk.
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: This article discusses how to help children become healthy eaters.
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.
Description: This article provides insight into how a child feels while watching TV.
Hitting is My Way of Asking for Help
Description: This article discusses why children hit, bite, and/or scratch and how parents can deal with this problem.
Description: This article provides insight on why young children say “no”.
Description: This article discusses why it is important to allow young children to make some choices themselves.
Description: This article provides insight on what bedtime means to a child and how parents can make it easier.
It’s Hard for Me to Get Along with Others
Description: This article provides insight into why children may have trouble getting along with others.
Description: This article discusses why children gets upset when their parents leave and how to ease their anxiety.
Description: This article discusses a child’s need to explore and how to set boundaries.
I’m Not a Cry Baby, I Just Need Your Help
Description: This article discusses why babies cry and how to assist them.
Description: This article provides insight into why children lie.
Description: Keys to Great Parenting is an educational program built around seven keys for unlocking an infant or toddler's wonderful capabilities. Based on the latest brain research, the program teaches key parenting skills that stimulate optimum development.
Description: This article discusses why children want to help with errands.
Description: This article provides insight into children’s world and how parent involvement improves their lives.
Description: This article discusses how children like playing with their parents as well as other children.
Description: This article discusses the importance of reading to your child.
Description: This fact sheer provides insights on potty training.
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes the best ways to meet children's needs at various stages in their development.
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author); Judy Myers-Walls; Wally Goddard; Dot Cudaback
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes. Together, these practices identified issues that Extension professionals across the entire United States could agree were important.
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM) (pdf)
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model (pdf version) outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes.
Author: Dennis, Steven; H. Wallace Goddard
Description: The Parent Self-Assessment is an online tool that allows parents to assess their own parenting skills privately and anonymously.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the six critical parenting practices from the National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM), as well as the stages of parenting (Galinsky, 1987) image making stage, nurturing stage, authority stage, interpretive stage, interdependent stage, and the departure stage.
Parents as Teachers (PAT) National Center
Description: Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an international early childhood parent education and family support program serving families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten, usually age 5. The program is designed to enhance child development and school achievement through parent education accessible to all families. It is a universal access model.
Description: This program focuses on strategies parents can use to assure their understanding of children's needs for a successful school experience and focuses on ways parents can be advocates for their children's needs in educational environments.
Secrets of Parenting 6, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen Debord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on ways to nurture and understand. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Secrets of Parenting: Reducing Whining and Improving Youth Children's Self-control
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Lisa Shannon
Description: Young children under the age of 6 are very self-centered and think that they should get what they want and need "right now". They often get frustrated when they realize that the world does not revolve around them. This frustration can lead to whining and tantrums because they have not developed the self-control to deal with their frustrations. This fact sheet offers suggestions on how parents can deal with and avoid tantrums and whining.
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.
Take Me and My Cooing Seriously
Description: This article discusses how a child’s babbling and cooing can be important.
Description: This article provides insight into why young children do not like to share.
Author: Oliver, Kathy (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses how it is important for parents and their children to understand and appreciate anger as a common emotion so they can learn to express it in appropriate ways.
There’s a Monster in My Closet!
Description: This article discusses why children have so many fears and how parents can help their children cope with these fears.
Tufts University Child and Family WebGuide
Description: The Tufts University Child and Family WebGuide consists of five main categories of information: family/parenting, education/learning, typical child development, health/mental health, and resources/recreation. The first four categories contain sites with research-based information. The fifth category, resources/recreation, contains sites with information about specific programs and things to do.
Description: This is one the of self-study units online linked with the National Extension Parenting Educator Framework (NEPEF). The modules were written by state specialists and include a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, and a transcript of the narration on the ppt, handouts and assignments.
Author: Oliver, Kathy (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes the different types of temperaments children have and how parents need to recognize the temperament of their child in order to best understand and support their development.
– Research –
Strengthening Families Program Statewide Outcomes
Description: This research brief documents the successful implementation of Iowa State University's "Strengthening Families Program" offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators from January through November, 2007 across five New York counties and in New York City.