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Overview Zero to Three: Behavior and Development This website links to a wide array of child development resources for parents, professionals, and policymakers. Resources are also provided for parents and caregivers.
Website Professional Development Webinars Designed for professionals working with parents, these NYS Parenting Education Partnership videos include topics such as normal child development, social and emotional development, and family engagement. Videos Every Person Influences Children EPIC This grassroots organization is dedicated to helping families, schools, and communities raise children to become responsible and capable adults.
The website offers overviews of the programs the organization has developed for children, teens, families, and communities.
Trained data collectors administered surveys to children in their classrooms. A teacher's guide is included. Substance Use Over Time Throughout each year of the study, there were no differences in tobacco and alcohol use between control and study groups in either cohort, controlling for gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, or using classroom or school as unit of analysis. However, parents may have more strongly-held beliefs about more sensitive topics such as attitudes toward sexual behavior beliefs about their children being at risk for sexually transmitted infections such as AIDS. View at Google Scholar A.
Contact them to bring EPIC to your community. Website Relationship Skills Active Listening Guidelines Organizational staff, community partners, and expectant and parenting young people can use these tips to develop their active listening skills. Tips Positive and Corrective Feedback Learning to provide positive and corrective feedback can be helpful for building relationships.
By giving feedback, we help young people assess their own actions, identify their strengths, and consider what how they can improve. Worksheet Teaching Resources for Youth Educators - A Source Book In this online handbook, a multitude of teaching materials such as games, activities, exercises, handouts, and worksheets have been collected to help young people build communication, relationship, conflict resolution, and public speaking skills.
These resources were produced by Wisconsin 4-H Youth Development. Handbook Communication Skills This lesson plan from Advocates for Youth provides young people with an opportunity to explore the differences among passive, aggressive, and assertive communication as well as practice assertive communication skills.
Lesson Plan Problem-solving with Teenagers This six-step problem-solving process from the Raising Children Network offers tips on resolving conflicts between parents and their children. Acknowledge that some of the teens may have only one parent with whom they can complete the homework assignment, and this is fine.
Explain the directions on the "Sex on TV: Teens and Parents Talk" Worksheet to the teens, and answer questions they may have. Give teens a timeline for completing the assignment.
Pass out the "We Talked! After the teens complete their homework assignment, lead a group discussion with the questions below.
Make sure the teens understand that you do not want them to disclose their parents' answers, but rather want them to discuss how they experienced the communication process. Close the discussion by summarizing some of the benefits and challenges teens shared about talking with parents about sex on TV.
Encourage teens to continue talking to and listening to their parents about sex. Collect the "We Talked!