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– General Information –
Description: Setting goals help you to accomplish things that are important to you and your family.
Getting Ready to Go Back to School 
Author: CYFERnet Program Editors, (12 more by this author)
Description: This resource focuses on strategies and tips to prepare children and their families for the start of the school year. Children need help from their parents and peers to get ready to succeed in school, and to develop lifelong, healthy habits. Prepare the children and youth in your life to succeed in school and in life!
Helping Your Children Succeed at Learning
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet summarizes suggestions on how parents can help their children be successful at learning.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how caring for yourself, understanding, nurturing, guiding, motivating, and advocating are primary parts of effective parenting. Also contains information on the stages of parenting and the different types of parenting.
Description: Parenting News provides a "one-stop" source of current parenting education news, access to four popular newsletters for parents and grandparents, and links to other web-based resources from University of Illinois Extension. The site is organized around three age groups (birth-5, 6-12 years, and teens), with a special section for grandparents raising grandchildren. Users can register to customize the site for their own use, and to be notified via email when new issues of newsletters are available for viewing. The system also provides for scheduled electronic delivery of "Parenting the 1st-3rd Years." Each month, a newsletter corresponding to the age of the child is delivered with information on stages of development, tips for parents, and suggestions for coping with the stress.
Description: Jody Johnston Pawel hosts discussions on parenting topics. You can participate/listen live or through recorded show topics.
Description: Setting goals help you to accomplish things that are important to you and your family.
Secrets of Parenting 3, 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 media use. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
WonderWise Parent Online Courses: I’m Positive – Growing up with self-esteem
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: This resource is a "conversational" course comprised of more than 230 brief web pages linked together in a conversational format for fostering healthy child development.
– 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.
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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.
Calling All Parents: How Did You Do on Your Homework?
Description: This article focuses on parents' role in helping their children with homework. Provides suggestions on creating a healthy cooperative learning environment.
Children and Stress: Are You Pushing Your Child Too Hard?
Author: Longo, Mary (4 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet on how parents can motivate their children.
Description: The Families with Teens program from the University of Minnesota is designed to help parents meet the challenges of raising teens. The program focuses on better family communication and decision-making, stronger parent-teen relationships, and more confident parenting.
Guiding Children Successfully Educational Guide
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This is the first segment of the Guiding Children Successfully with “Dr. Wally” --a series of television programs that were designed to provide information and training to parents, caregivers, educators, homeschoolers, and childcare providers. The parenting series was produced by the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN), in partnership with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
Author: Weigel, Dan (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is geared toward helping parents prepare their children for school and to become good learners.
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.
Description: Parenting News provides a "one-stop" source of current parenting education news, access to four popular newsletters for parents and grandparents, and links to other web-based resources from University of Illinois Extension. The site is organized around three age groups (birth-5, 6-12 years, and teens), with a special section for grandparents raising grandchildren. Users can register to customize the site for their own use, and to be notified via email when new issues of newsletters are available for viewing. The system also provides for scheduled electronic delivery of "Parenting the 1st-3rd Years." Each month, a newsletter corresponding to the age of the child is delivered with information on stages of development, tips for parents, and suggestions for coping with the stress.
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.
Secrets of Parenting 3, 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 media use. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.