Resources Related to Parenting

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Click here for a Princeton Study on parent and baby connections

Click here for a link to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Society's Facts for Families.  This is a comprehensive list of links to all psychiatric diagnosis

Click here for a great article about Seven Ways to Break Unhelpful Communication Patterns 

Click here for an article about how modeling calm behavior helps our children

Talking to Children about Difficult  Events in the News

Sleep is so important for all of us, especially children.  Learn more about sleep and Daylight Savings Time here

Click here for sleep strategies for kids

Click here for ideas about establishing good sleep hygiene

How to cope with the stress of home-schooling

Click here for an article on how to be a parent while working at home!  A big challenge!!

Click here for a link to the Second Step Parenteen Program.  This program addresses parenting concerns with teens.

This is a great article for parents about communication and parenting teens

Click here for a link to the CDC's website on developmental milestones, is your child "on-track"?     

Click here to learn more about why kids don't turn in their homework even if they did it

Click here to learn how to teach children to be resilient

Click here for how to help you children cope with holiday stress 

Click here to learn more about building resiliency and helping children weather tough times

Click here to link to a video working parents' guide to parenting

Sunfield Center Drs Cheryl McNeil & Suzi Naguib Presenting on the Cooperation Chart

Click here for the Cooperation Chart that accompanies the above video The Cooperation Chart

Click here for a parenting resources handout

click here for information from U of M Children's Hospital about Developmental Milestones, is your baby making good progress?

click here for back to school tips to help children transition back to school

Click here for information related to temper tantrums

click here to be linked to the CHADD webpage talking about parenting children with ADHD

click here for a parenting guide to problem behavior from the Child Mind Institute

click here for a toolkit for parents who suspect their child may have autism from Autism Speaks

click here for information from Autism Speaks about vaccines and autism

Click here for videos about all kinds of parenting topics from the Parent Toolkit website

Click here for the Child Mind website on parenting information and styles 

Click here for a link to the Family Center, a local organization whose mission it is to support families in our community.  Their website has a lot of resources and a video library of presentations related to parenting.

Click here for suggestions about how to get your teens to listen to you

Click here for Positive Parenting Tips by Age from the CDC  

Click here for an article about how to help children with self-regulation, build executive functioning skills 

Click here for a link to an article about the Dangers of Distracted Parenting-this gives good information about what joint attention is and why it is harmful, especially to young children.

Click here for an excellent article on How to Help you Child Calm Down

Click here for a link to the IRIS Center's list of children's books featuring children with disabilities

Click here for a list of films from the IRIS center for children with people with disabilities in them

List of books for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), designated by grade

Click here for a great article about why our children act differently at school and home

Click here for an Age by Age description of what behaviors are Normal

Parenting teens is hard.  Here is a great article on how to create a teen behavior contract

Click here for a good YoU Tube Video about what to do if your child tells you they are getting bullied at school