General Parent Resources

Parenting Help & Information
This is a website that was created to respond to parents' concerns, questions, and desire for accurate information about parenting. Components include ares where parents can post questions, view other parent stories, listen to podcasts, and download articles and brochures about important issues.  http://parentcentral.net/

Positive Parenting
This is a website about positive parenting, also called peaceful parenting or gentle parenting or positive discipline.  Tips and advice for kids of all ages, from infants to teens.  Dr. Laura Markham trained as a Clinical Psychologist, earning her PhD from Columbia University.  Her relationship-based parenting model has helped thousands of families across the U.S. and Canada find compassionate, common-sense solutions to everything from separation anxiety and sleep problems to sass talk and cell phones.
Talking with Kids about Tough Topics
This website can help parents talk with their children about difficult topics.  The website offers practical, concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some very tough issues: sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.http://www.talkingwithkids.org/index.htm  

Discipline
A reference for handling misbehavior at school and at home.
 
Divorce
Basic pointers, resources, and advice to help families going through divorce. This page is specifically designed for parents to help children and adolescents work through their impending divorce in healthy ways.http://www.divorceinfo.com/children.htm
Information, resources, and advice to help families going through or planning a divorce. http://www.kidsinthemiddle.org
 

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