This publication offers information for parents and caregivers on adolescent cognitive development and offers tips for social service agents and parents on how to encourage healthy cognitive development.
This fact sheet provides parents with information on adolescent social and emotional development, how it will affect their teen, and what they can do as parents to encourage healthy social and emotional development.Note: PDF version available.
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Children's self-esteem often depends on how they think they "measure up" to what people expect. This fact sheet gives specific strategies to employ to build children's self-esteem including creating realistic expectations and giving specific praise.Note: PDF version available.
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This fact sheet describes the importance of setting limits in parenting and offers some specific steps and strategies for limit setting for children and adolescents. An activity is also included for families to do together.Note: PDF version available.
This fact sheet features a comic strip of two women discussing how they help their children learn to make decisions for themselves. The story offers several strategies that parents can use to help their children and adolescents learn how to make healthy decisions for themselves. Note: PDF version available.
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This fact sheet features tips on how to teach children to do the right thing and provides strategies for using discipline and punishment, rule-setting, and teaching children to use appropriate behavior.Note: PDF version available.
This fact sheet describes characteristics of youth at risk for getting involved in substance abuse and characteristics of youth who are least likely to abuse substances. It offers tips for parents to help their teens have less of a risk for drug abuse in the future.Note: PDF version available.
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This fact sheet describes the role that emotions play in children's behavior and what parents can do to help their children manage and express their emotions in an appropriate way.Note: PDF version available.
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This fact sheet provides parents with helpful tips on how to effectively discipline children without using violence, reduce the amount of violence that children are exposed to, and healthy conflict resolution.Note: PDF version available.
This fact sheet provides some tips on how to prepare children and the family as a whole for a new school year. Note: PDF version available.