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Child & Parenting Issues

 

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We do our best to find sites that provide the most accurate and up-to-date information about parenting issues and child development. Because it is impossible to provide an inclusive list of helpful sites, feel free to submit your suggestion for a new site.

 

Click on a topic for a list of links:

Child Development

Child Development: General Information

Teenage Development

What is Normal Development?

When Will My Child Talk?

Children and Media

Effects of Watching TV Violence

Children and Watching TV

Children and Video Games: Guidelines for Parents

Getting Children off the Couch and onto the Field

Raising Children in a Commercial Culture

Should Kids Watch TV News?

Internet Safety

Helping Children Use the Internet Safely

Guidelines for Parents for How to Keep Kids Safe on the Internet

Kids Online: Protecting Your Kids in Cyberspace

Internet Guidelines for Parents from the FBI

SafeKids.Com: Top Site on Internet Safety for Kids

Child Safety on the Information Highway 

U.S. Dept. of Education Parent Guide to the Internet

NetSmartz Kids and NetSmartz Teens -
The NetSmartz Workshop® is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children (ages 5-17), parents, guardians, educators, and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.

Disney's CyberNetiquette Page - Disney's tips for family cyber safety.

Web Wise Kids: Safety on the Web for Young People - take an animated tour through the different safety issues in cyberspace.

Youth Internet Safety Study - a collection of research report on such topics as the impact of exposure to unwanted online sexual material, which teenagers form close online relationships, and risk factors for online sexual solicitation

Internet Behavior Consulting-a company that provides consultation, training and intervention for problematic online behavior

FilterReview.com - the website designed to help find internet safety solutions

Getnetwise.com-Provides up-to-date information to help keep safe on the internet

Netnanny.com-Home page for Net Nanny software. Top Ten Internet Safety tips.

Netlingo.com-Site with information about online biz, culture, tech & text lingo

Bully Police USA-A Watch-dog organization that advocates for Bullied Children & Reports on State Anti Bullying Laws

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

CyberSmart

i-SAFE-A non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of children

Noslang.com-Internet Slang Dictionary & Translator

Frontline: Growing Up Online-Information, discussion and a video about how radically the internet has changed the experience of childhood  

Fathering

In the Spotlight - Fatherhood

 

General Parenting Topics

Family.Com: The Parenting Site from Disney

Guidelines for Raising Children and Teenagers from the Child Development Institute

Parenting Web Sites

Raising Your Adolescent Daughter - Tips for Parents

Solutions for Common Parenting Problems

Is Spanking Effective?

Spare the Rod: Why It's a Good Idea

9 Things to Do Instead of Spanking

Talking with Kids about Tough Issues - 10 Tips

Talking With Children About Death

Ten Keys to Successful Parenting

Kidshealth.org

Parenting.org

BlueKids.org-Children's Health Education Center (A member of Children's Hospital of WI) offers resources and programs for children, parents, teachers and caregivers to help keep kids and teens healthy and safe.

Cope Care Deal-A mental health website for teens teaching about how to cope, how to take care of yourself and understanding the facts about mental illness.


Learning

Family.Com: The Learning Site from Disney

Improving Your Child's Learning Ability

The Learning Toolbox - resources and strategies for help students with learning difficulties be better learners, from the James Madison University Special Education Program; strategies for getting organized, studying, note taking, testing taking, reading, writing, math, and advanced thinking skills.

See our School links for more information on Learning Disabilities

The Whole Brain Atlas

National Center for Learning Disabilities

How to Raise a Reader

Specific Childhood Problems 

Violence and Bullying

Bullying in Adolescence: The Role of the Peer Group

Bullying.org: Where You Are Not Alone - information and resources for youth, parents, and professionals; emphasis on community prevention, including mentoring programs, peer support services, and visitor-generated intervention methods.

Bullying Prevention: Quick Training Aids - provides a curriculum for inservice training on bullying prevention, including links to relevant facts sheets, training tools, and other resources for training.

Education Forum on Adolescent Health: Youth Bullying - a 48-page PDF document providing an overview of youth bullying research, presentations by experts on bullying prevention, recommendations for future research, bibliography, and online resources. Sponsored by the American Medical Association.

Strategies for Helping Children Resolve Conflicts Non-Violently

National School Safety Center-Advocate for safe, secure and peaceful school worldwide. Provides information regarding safe school solutions.

Checklist of Characteristics of Youth who Have Caused School-Associated Violent Deaths

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