Family Education
Family education.com: Raising Children Free of Prejudice
An informative article on how parents can raise their children to be free of prejudice.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source on Line: Listen to This!: Listening Is a Core Ccompetency
An article promoting listening as the most important factor for promoting healthy communication and relationships between children and their parents.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source on Line: The Grief of Children
Explains the grief process that children go through and their concept of death, plus helpful and not so helpful adult responses.
Kidsource OnLine
Kidsource: How Can I Be Involved in My Child's Education?
It's easy to say you want to become involved, but doing it is another story. Find some meaningful ways to become involved in your child's education and look through the resource organizations listed for some good contacts.
Other
House Rules for Children
Examples of daily and weekly expectations for children. Also provides suggestions for rewards and consequences for these house rules.
Other
Children Now: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues: 10 Helpful Tips
Parents are encouraged to talk with learners about challenging subjects like sex, violence, and alcohol. Topics included are the 10 tips for talking with kids about tough issues.
American Psychological Association
What Makes Kids Care?
Sometimes a site just has to be read - and parents - read this one! If a key element to ending senseless violence is teaching children to care about their fellow humans, this article gives some guidance on how to teach just that.
Other
Children Now: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues: Violence
Parents are given the confidence to talk with students about difficult issues like drugs, violence, and alcohol. The subject addressed is violence. Discussion topics and answers to common questions are included.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Building Self Esteem
KidSource offers a brief article with useful tips for parents on how to help a child with low self-esteem.
PBS
Pbs: Creativity and Play
How can we as parents foster creativity and self-expression in our children? Peruse these ideas from PBS such as encouraging different types of creative play.
Other
Pregnancy and Prenatal Care
This site contains information on the signs of pregnancy, prenatal care objectives, and pregnancy associated discomforts.
Other
Dr. Green: Adolescents and Sleep
This article presents information about the needs of adolescents for plenty of sleep each night.
Other
Cyber Parent: How to Grow Self Esteem in Your Child
Site offers information on several aspects of self-esteem. Talks about discipline, positive language to use, and offering choices to children. Includes response to questions from parents.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Active Parenting Session 1 Votes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to supplement the comprehensive program designed by Michael Popkin, Ph.D. Using the Activotes along with the published PowerPoint presentation, the facilitator can ask...
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Class Flow: Active Parenting Session 2 Votes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to supplement the comprehensive program designed by Michael Popkin, Ph.D. Using the Activotes along with the published PowerPoint presentation, the facilitator can ask...
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Class Flow: Active Parenting Session 3 Votes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to supplement the comprehensive program designed by Michael Popkin, Ph.D. Using the Activotes along with the published PowerPoint presentation, the facilitator can ask...
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Class Flow: Active Parenting Session 4 Votes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to supplement the comprehensive program designed by Michael Popkin, Ph.D. Using the Activotes along with the published PowerPoint presentation, the facilitator can ask...
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Class Flow: Active Parenting Session 5 Votes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to supplement the comprehensive program designed by Michael Popkin, Ph.D. Using the Activotes along with the published PowerPoint presentation, the facilitator can ask...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Active Parenting Session 6 Votes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to supplement the comprehensive program designed by Michael Popkin, Ph.D. Using the Activotes along with the published PowerPoint presentation, the facilitator can ask...
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child With Homework
Your attitude counts! Look here for hints from the U.S. Department of Education on monitoring students homework. For students of all ages and for parents, this is a guide, checklist, and a list of resources that will help with homework.
Other
A Checklist for an Effective Parent School Partnership
Site provides six standards for parental involvement in their child's education. The standard is given along with sample best practices, challenges, and results.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska: Positive Parental Pressure
This article provides a list of positive things parents can do to help their teens, such as communication, supervision, participation, values, role modeling, and not giving in. Article can be found on page 7 of the PDF document.