Family Acceptance Project: LGBTQ Youth and Family Resources [web resource]
Research from the Family Acceptance Project® shows that families play a critical role in contributing to serious health risks & promoting well-being for LGBTQ young people. Learn about how family behaviors affect your LGBTQ child’s health risks and ways to Read more >>
By the time they get through high school, most students are pretty used to transitioning from summer to school time. But starting college brings a whole new set of challenges. First-year college students have to handle additional responsibilities like how Read more >>
100 Best Disability Blogs and Websites [web resource]
Are you looking for information on disabilities? Feedspot’s top 100 disability blogs and websites are curated from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. Read more >>
The Key To Stepparenting: Be Patient, It Takes Time
A relationship with a stepchild can be tricky, scary and infuriating. It can also be joyful, interesting and extremely fulfilling. I know because I’m a stepparent of two boys. So here are some tips that can help you navigate being Read more >>
Before Heading to College, Make a Mental Health Checklist
In other words, what can they do to protect their mental health? Experts suggest that parents and teenagers take proactive steps now to help plan for and preserve mental well-being during the big transition to college. Read more >>
Talking With Babies and Toddlers: Why More Talk Is Better
Talking with your baby or toddler can help their language and communication development. The more you talk with your baby or toddler, the better. This is because parents who talk a lot to their young children use many different sounds Read more >>
5 Tips for Parents of New Kindergartners Who Are Younger Than Their Classmates
A good kindergarten experience sets kids up for success in school and into adulthood. Students in smaller kindergarten classes are more likely to go to college than students from larger classes. And by age 27, students who had more experienced Read more >>
5 Tips for Picking a Parenting Book
Babies don’t come with instruction manuals. Children are at once joyful, sad, confusing, predictable, generous, selfish, gentle and mean. What’s a parent to do when faced with such perplexing offspring? Given the complex interactions of parent, child and surroundings, parents Read more >>
What to Say to Kids When The News Is Scary
The news can be devastating. Events such as a mass shooting at an elementary school can be incomprehensible to adults — so how do we talk about them with kids? Read more >>
Helping Youth Cope After a School Shooting [downloadable]
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has developed a collection of resources to help youth heal after a school shooting. Downloadable resources include fact sheets, tip sheets, tool kits and more. Read more >>
