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Positive Parenting
Parenting can be exciting, rewarding, frightening and overwhelming. We are here to help you as
you respond to the challenges of raising children.
These resources for Positive Parenting are available on this web site. Select one or more to meet your needs.
Parenting Skills and Communicating with Children
Parent Tips
Read our series of tips to help parents manage children's challenging behaviors.
Childhood Depression
The National Mental Health Association offers help in identifying depression in children and in
getting help if depression is suspected.
Focus on Children's Emotional Health
It is important to focus on our children's emotional and mental health and safety
throughout the year. We offer information and suggestions for "positive parenting".
Guidelines for Talking With Children About Difficult Issues
Experts tell us that it is never too early to create an atmosphere in which children can
talk with their parents, teachers and adults who are important to them. They also tell us
that it is never too late to open those lines of communication. Children,
even teenagers, want to talk to their parents and to hear about their parents' beliefs and
values.
Guidelines for Talking With Children About School Violence
and Violence Against Children
Images of violence in school are part of our children's experiences. We must
provide opportunities for children to discuss their feelings, to express our feelings
and to reassure children.
Helping Our Worried Children: Staying Balanced in A Changing World - Tips for
Parents
We offer information about how children react to trauma in general as well as specifically
how parents can help the children they love through the anniversary of September 11th.
Preventing Child Abuse and Promoting Safety
Child Safety on the Internet
The Internet is a wonderful tool for education and for leisure, but it also has a dark side.
We provide ideas on how to guide your child’s use of this tool at home and in school.
Internet Safety: Social Networking
We can help keep children safe by teaching them to navigate the cyber-world just as we teach them to
navigate the physical world.
Teaching Safety Skills - Stranger Danger is Not Enough
Parents and children share the fear of being separated. We offer information about the dangers
that exist and ways to teach children to stay safe.
Keep Your Kids Safe This Vacation
We offer advice on ways to prepare and plan your family vacations so that the
possibility of your child being lost or abducted is greatly minimized.
For Parents: Child Abuse Can Be Prevented
We offer suggestions on how to talk to your children about the issue of child abuse and the role
you play in preventing it.
Book List For Children and Their Families About Child Abuse and Abduction
You may read these books with your children as you talk about safety. This is only a partial
listing of what is available. Explore your local library for other titles of interest.
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Shaking a baby is not the cure for inconsolable crying. Here is information about
Shaken Baby Syndrome, how you can prevent it, how you can recognize it.
Activities Guide
Activities with Children Resource Guide
This guide provides information about location, hours of operation, admission prices,
recommended ages for activities to enjoy with your children, in and around Westchester County.
Go to our Education Article Archives for more materials
of interest.
Links to Explore Elsewhere on the Web
- Go to http://www.childwelfare.gov/, the web site of the Child Welfare Information
Gateway, which is a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Gateway promotes the
safety, permanency and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare,
adoption and related professionals, as well as concerned citizens to timely,
essential information.
- At the web site of Prevent Child Abuse New York at http://www.preventchildabuseny.org
you will find tips for parents, kids and teens and information on how you can help as well as listings
of events. This statewide non-profit organization is dedicated to preventing child abuse in New
York State.
- Go to http://www.epicforchildren.org/ the web site of EPIC, Every Person
Influences Children, a national not-for-profit organization whose mission is
to provide resources for parents, teachers and school administrators that
help adults raise responsible and academically successful children. The
site contains many short articles and links intended to help parents,
teachers, and the larger community develop the individual and
collaborative skills needed to support the healthy development of children.
- Go to the web site of the National Runaway Switchboard at
http://www.nrscrisisline.org, the federally designated national communication system
for runaway and homeless youth. Their toll free telephone number, 800-621-
4000, is available 24 hours a day throughout the United States and its territories,
and provides confidential crisis intervention and local and national referrals to
youth as well as to their families and may provide services and transportation for
youth who wish to return home. Their mission is to “facilitate relationships that
ensure that youth and families have access to resources in their communities”
which they do by providing information and resources to Kids and Teens, Parents
and Adults, Educators and Students and Partners and Volunteers.
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http://www.air.org/tapartnership/advisors/ChildWelfare/resources/Family_Guide.asp
is a site which offers A Family's Guide to the Child Welfare System, a
comprehensive resource that answers many of the questions families face when
they become involved with the child welfare system. The Guide was developed
as a collaborative effort among Georgetown University Center for Child and
Human Development, American Institutes for Research, Federation of Families
for Children's Mental Health, Child Welfare League of America, and National
Indian Child Welfare Association.
- Visit http://www.tolerance.org/, A Web Project of the Southern Poverty Law
Center. Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue
of American life, the home, the workplace, schools and the greater community by
providing resources and ideas, print materials and public service
announcements. The site has information for Teachers, Parents, Teens and
Kids.
- Go to http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm
for “A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety” (in English) to get help understanding the complexities of on-line child exploitation.
This is a publication of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crimes Against Children Program.
- Go to
http://www.mediacampaign.org/marijuana/index.html
to explore the web site of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy where you will find materials for parents, youth, teachers, media,
community groups, and more information relating to the issue of marijuana use among young
people.
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The web site of the "Parents. The Anti-Drug." campaign at
http://www.theantidrug.com/index.asp
provides advice, informational articles and activities to help parents and their teenaged children
deal with the issue of drug use. Go to the What's New articles to get information of seasonal
interest in addition to the general information that is always useful.
- Go to http://www.mediafamily.org, the web site of the National Institute on Media and
the Family, an organization that works to "help families and educators to
maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of mass media on children through
research, education and advocacy."
- Explore http://www.missingkids.com, the web site of the
National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), where you will find resources for finding
missing children as well as information on preventing abduction and abuse. The
section on Education and Resources contains publications for children and parents
on Internet safety, safety in amusement or theme parks and safety in youth sports,
among other things.
- Explore our links to Talking With Kids at
http://www.talkingwithkids.org/ . This
site is part of a national public service campaign designed to help parents and
other caregivers talk with their children about timely and often difficult topics. The
site identifies topics that are important to discuss with children and each month
offers tips to help parents communicate effectively with their children. A new
addition to the site helps parents address troubling news stories with their
children. Information is available in English and Spanish.
- For health information about children from before birth through adolescence,
explore the Kids Health site at http://www.Kidshealth.org.
KidsHealth has separate
areas for kids, teens and parents including articles, animations, games and
resources. The site is developed by the Center for Children's Health Media of the
The Nemours Foundation, http://www.nemours.org, a charitable organization
devoted to improving the health of children.
- Locally, Westchester County has launched children's sections of the
county website. Young children through teens will find information and links to
sites about fun stuff as well as topics such as health, the environment, the
government, driving, jobs and information about Westchester at
http://www.westchestergov.com/kids/.
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Noting that "sometimes being safe means being smart," the Kids Stuff page of the
county site's "Keeping Us Safe" section at
http://www.westchestergov.com/keepingsafe/ also
includes information and links
to safety related sites that deal with topics such as fire and gun safety, health and
crime.
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