Parenting Supports

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“A parent is anyone who takes on the role of caring for a child. This can include biological parents, adoptive parents, step-parents, foster parents, and other caregivers who assume the responsibility of raising a child. Parenting is a complex role that involves nurturing, guiding, and shaping a child's growth and development. At its core, being a parent means providing physical, emotional, and psychological support to a child, as well as being a role model and teaching life skills.”

Websites:

Kids Health

Kids Health is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen

https://kidshealth.org/

Challenge Success

Responding to an increase in academic and emotional problems among kids in the United States, psychologists, educators, physicians, and public health and policy experts in child and adolescent well-being convened at Stanford University in July 2007 to envision a coordinated approach to helping schools, parents and families develop alternative success models to align with research on healthy child.

https://challengesuccess.org/

PBS: Raising Kids Who Thrive

Each month, you’ll be able to get answers directly from experts covering a wide range of parenting topics. You’ll also have a chance to share your own expert tips with other parents. Join the conversation!

https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive

Keep Connected

Keep Connected offers all kinds of families—and organizations that support them—ideas, activities, and experiences to help build strong family relationships. Our goal is to strengthen family relationships to help kids be and become their best selves.

https://keepconnected.searchinstitute.org/

Parenting Science

A website for parents who are interested in the big picture–childrearing and child development considered from the perspectives of anthropology, evolution, psychology, and neuroscience.

https://parentingscience.com/

Understood

Understood is the leading non-profit empowering the 70 million people with thinking and learning differences in the United States.

https://www.understood.org/

Videos:

Smart empathy: raising resilient children and teenagers 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP8Ur3hr6A&ab_channel=Happiness%26ItsCauses

How Social-Emotional Learning Benefits Everyone

https://www.ted.com/talks/caige_jambor_how_social_emotional_learning_benefits_everyone

5 Parenting Tips for Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-VIRvqsA9w&ab_channel=TED

Articles:

Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion/parenting-helicopter-ignoring.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=943903EB-6AF2-42D9-85D2-E6C144220693

Your Child's Self-Esteem

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/self-esteem.html

Personal Development

https://www.topdoctors.co.uk/medical-dictionary/personal-development

Active or Overscheduled Kids?

https://theconversation.com/active-or-overscheduled-kids-how-parents-can-consider-benefits-and-risks-of-extracurricular-activities-218988#:~:text=Importance%20of%20free%20play%2C%20downtime&text=Overscheduling%20kids%20may%20also%20quickly,self%2Dreported%20anxiety%20and%20depression

Overscheduled Child May Lead to a Bored Teen

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/overscheduled-child-may-lead-to-bored-teen

Childhood Stress: How Parents Can Help

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/stress.html?view=ptr

Helping Children Cope With Stress

https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/helping-children-cope-with-stress