Parent Resources

  • 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 Support
     
    Provides 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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     Counseling Resources

    Lillian Ortiz-Self
    425-232-6615
    2804 Grand Ave.
    Everett, WA 98201
    English or Spanish

    Dr. Stephen Glass
    Pediatric Neurologist
    Woodinville,WA
    425-424-9200

    Chris Quayle Ph.D. or Carolyn Rinke
    15418 Main St. Ste. 301
    Mill Creek, WA
    385-3262

    *Steven Taylor Ph.D.
    1602 Hewitt #615
    Everett, WA  98201
    252-9744

    Sue Beckly  MSW
    2722 Colby, Everett
    252-1049

    Maureen Conroyd   MSW
    2930 Wetmore #910
    Everett,WA  98201
    252-3735

     Everett Clinic
    Behavioral Health Clinic
    1330 Rockefeller Ave.#140
    Everett,WA.98201
    339-5453

    Compass Health
    4526 Federal
    Everett, WA 98203
    349-7300 / 252-1122 / 304-0690

    Autism Program @ UW
    Center on Human Development
    206-543-5153

    Puget Sound Aspergers Syndrome 
    Parent Support & Education
    425-391-9604