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Parenting Websites
Helpful hints on parenting with great articles.Information on parenting.Information on dealing with bullies.Information on helping children handle anxiety.Special Education Parent SupportProvides education and advocacy to promote safe technology and media for children.Information on keeping children safe.Get your children moving with a variety of activities.Books
ADHD- Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention: A Book for Kids
- Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents
- Why Won’t my Child Pay Attention? A Guide for Parents of Hyperactive and Inattentive Children (VIDEO)
DISCIPLINE
- Keys to Effective Discipline: A Parent’s Guide to Managing Difficult Behavior (BOOK OR VIDEO)
- The Parent’s Guide: Solutions to Today’s Most Common Behavior Problems in the Home
- Your Defiant Child: 8 Steps to Better Behavior
- 1–2–3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2 –12 (VIDEO)
- Go to Your Room! Consequences that Teach
DIVORCE / STEPFAMILIES
- Don’t Divorce Us: Kids’ Advice to Divorcing Parents
- Children: The Experts on Divorce (VIDEO)
FRIENDSHIPS
- Good Friends are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Make and Keep Friends
- What to do when Kids are Mean to Your Child
GRANDPARENTS AS PARENTS
- Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family
GRIEF
- Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups
SCHOOL & HOMEWORK-
How to Help Your Child with Homework
- Solve Your Child's School Related Problems
- The Survival Guide For the Parents of Gifted Kids
- It Starts with a Book and You! (VIDEO & GUIDE)
PARENTING
- Early Adolescence: Understanding the 10 to 15 Year Old
- Help! The Kids are at it Again
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
- It’s not Fair, Jeremy Spencer’s Parents Let Him Stay Up all Night!
- Kids are Worth It! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline
- The Manipulative Child
- Parenting with Love and Logic (BOOK OR VIDEO)
- Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
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Power Point for Parents: Helping Your Child with Closure of 2019-2020 School Year
Parents Helping Children with Closure
FAQ Question:
Can my family access social emotional resources and support from our school remotely during the closure?
During the extended school closure Social Emotional Learning resources are being made available to families by the Committee for Children (CFC), creators of the 2nd Step Program used in all elementary schools.
Here is a CFC resource page that families can access without an account. CFC will be adding information to this page.
https://www.secondstep.org/covid19support
Additionally, families can see/access lesson materials specific to their child’s grade by creating an account via https://www.secondstep.org/
Once you create an account, enter the a ctivation code below for your child’s grade level.
Kindergarten: SSPK FAMI LY70
First Grade: SSP1 FAMI LY71
Second Grade: SSP2 FAMI LY72
Third Grade: SSP3 FAMI LY73
Fourth Grade: SSP4 FAMI LY74
Fifth Grade: SSP5 FAMI LY75
Children and Technology
Josh Ochs Social Media Safety
https://smartsocial.com/josh-ochs/
Net Smart Kids
https://www.netsmartzkids.org/
Cyber Safety Cop
http://www.cybersafetycop.com/
Internet Safety 101
https://internetsafety101.org/
Children and Anxiety
How to Handle Anxiety in Children: Effective Ways Parents Can Help Kids Cope With Stress and AnxietyBook: What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by Dawn Huebner
Helping Children Cope with Trauma
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/helping-children-cope-with-traumatic-stress.htm
Friendship
Ages & Stages: How Children Build Friendships
Preteens and Peer Pressure: How to Help Your Kids Avoid Negative Influences From Friends