The following resources are designed to educate parents about practices that promote children’s healthy development and safety, including supporting age-appropriate self-regulation, using developmentally appropriate discipline, and safely encouraging child independence. Resources for parents of children with social, emotional, or health challenges are also provided.
The Importance of Positive and Responsive Interactions with Caregivers
- Building a Healthy Brain (Public Broadcasting Service)
- Serve and Return Interactions (Center on the Developing Child)
Positive Parenting by Age
- Positive Parenting Tips (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The Benefits of Reading to Infants and Toddlers
- Reading to Babies (Cleveland Clinic)
- Reading Books to Children (Kids Health)
The Importance of Routine for Young Children
- Creating Structure and Rules (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Healthy Emotion Regulation
- Modeling Positive Parental Emotion Regulation (Child Mind Institute)
- Developing Positive Coping Strategies in Children (Military Child Education Coalition)
Supporting Child Independence
- How to Safely Support Child Independence (Child Mind Institute)
Parent–Child Communication
- Talking to Toddlers (Child Mind Institute)
- How to Give Effective Instructions to Young Children (Child Mind Institute)
- Fostering Your Military Child's Communication Skills to Minimize Conflict (Department of the Air Force)
- Tips and Strategies for Interacting with Your Military-Connected Teen (Military Child Education Coalition)
The Importance of Sleep
- Encouraging Good Sleep Habits (Child Mind Institute)
Build Children's Resilience by Creating Positive Childhood Experiences
- Positive childhood experiences can reduce the negative impact of stress (American Society for the Positive Care of Children)
Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT)
- Online training for positive, empathic parenting (Arizona State University)
Identifying Appropriate Emergency Contacts
- Emergency Contacts for Families with Young Children (Ovia Health)
Parenting a Child with Social, Emotional, or Health Challenges
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- Crying & Colic (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Colic Relief Tips for Parents (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Shaken Baby Syndrome: Protect Your Infant from Abusive Head Trauma (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Developmental and Language Delays
- Assessing Developmental Delays (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Language Delays in Toddlers: Information for Parents (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Sensory Processing Issues
- Sensory Processing Issues (Child Mind Institute)
Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Autism (Child Mind Institute)
- What are the earliest signs of autism? (Child Mind Insitute)
- What should an evaluation for Autism look like? (video) (Child Mind Institute)
ADHD
- Preschoolers and ADHD (Child Mind Institute)