This site is devoted to child care providers joining with parents to support children's well-being. It includes materials and links for childcare providers to build positive relationships with parents along with materials for providers and materials to be distributed to parents. Categories of materials are parent-provider relationships, supporting parents, child growth and development, guidance and discipline, children and learning, family-child relationships, health and safety, and making connections. Several pieces focus on talking to parents or providers about difficult topics..
This electronic newsletter series offers tips to people in three areas: personal development, couple relationships, and parenting. Each e-mailed tip includes a quote from an important scholar, a brief discussion of the quote, and an idea for application of the idea. Participants are invited to share with others at a blog.
Using gardening as the metaphor for cultivating a healthy couple relationship, this curriculum discusses six principles that make a big difference: commitment, personal growth, nurturing, understanding, solving, and serving. Each principle is discussed in a Lesson Guide that can be used for self-study, mentoring, or group discussion.
A team of Cooperative Extension specialists developed a model or summary of key principles for healthy couple relationships. A full report with summary of research is pending.
The Health, Emotions, and Relationship Initiative for the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families will be hosting the next International Association of Relationship Research Mini-Conference at the University of Arizona on October 20-22nd, 2011.
Students and faculty alike are invited to participate in a study to learn more about the people who play multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and their relationships.
The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships offers free podcasts related to their published articles, in the form of interviews with authors and scholars.
What are some of the processes that family life educators can encourage to help people get beyond skills, to manage bias, ferret out cultural nonsense, and build strong family relationships?
By Scott M. Stanley, Research Professor and Co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies, and Galena K. Rhoades is a senior researcher at the Center for Marital and Family Studies, University of Denver.
There are many fundamental shifts in how people do relationships in industrialized nations, and the increase in the prevalence of cohabitation instead of marriage or prior to marriage would be near the top of the list. The mystery is this: The belief that cohabiting prior to marriage lowers one's odds of divorce has no evidence going for it, yet it is a strongly held belief.
