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Parenting Your Child with Special Needs

Parenting a child with special needs multiplies the challenges a parent faces. It requires more of everything:  more money, more doctor visits, more stress, more resiliency, more energy and time, more frustration, and often more discouragement. Learn coping skills to help you manage the extra challenges, flags to know when to seek help,  and valuable parenting resources available to you.

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Healthy Kids, Healthy Families

Are you tired of fighting with your kids about what to eat and getting them to move more?  Are you unsure of what your kids really need for a healthy diet and exercise?  In this webinar you will learn what kids need for healthy growth and development.  You will have a better understanding if your child may have any issues of concern and we will discuss tips on getting even picky eaters to eat right at home and away.

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Countdown to Literacy

Through this webinar you will learn that literacy is a process that begins at birth. Literacy begins in oral form from the moment you say your baby’s name. Literacy is learned on a continuum. As a result of this class you will learn the literacy continuum and where your child might fit on that continuum.  If you have a child with disabilities or are concerned with your child’s literacy progress, you will find some clarification and learn about resources to access for your child.

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Separating Fact from Fiction About Parent-Child Attachment

Parents today are bombarded with messages telling them how to raise successful kids. One concept that plays a prominent role in those messages is "parent-child attachment," reportedly an essential foundation on which a child's optimal learning and development build. But what does "attachment" really mean, and why is it so important? How can you tell if your child's attachment with you is developing as it should?

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Discipline is Teaching: Guiding Children's Behavior in Positive Ways

This webinar will define discipline as opposed to punishment as a way to guide children to socially positive behaviors.  With a strong base in child development, we will explore a variety of strategies to use with various age groups and personality styles. Understanding "why" your child behaves the way he or she does is one key to making choices of guidance techniques. You'll hear about some quick tips as well as long term strategies. We’ll also identify when you should be concerned about your child’s behavior and where to go for additional help.

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Social-Emotional Development: The Magic of Encouragement

A strong self-esteem is an essential ingredient in a child's positive development. During this webinar parents will reinforce their current skills and learn new tools to help them continue to help their children develop a strong sense of themselves that will be necessary to meet the increasing demands as they grow and mature. We will also identify potential challenges a child will face if they have low self-esteem, and offer guidelines to help parents use encouragement appropriately to support their child's growing self-image.

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Parenting 101: How to Understand and Enjoy Your Child's Development

As children grow and develop, they go through predictable stages with expected behaviors. When parents (or other significant adults) know what to expect, they can let this understanding influence the ways they interact with their children. Understanding child development encourages acceptance of what is typical behavior - even when it is frustrating or unfamiliar. Children have phases of "odd" behaviors that are linked to development.  Since all parents worry about their children being "normal," learning about development can either be reassuring or support the need to find resources for a child that may have a delay or disability.

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Parent Education Core Curriculum Framework: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning Curriculum for Parent Education Programs

For a number of years a group of Minnesota parenting educators have worked together to  develop the document Parent Education Core Curriculum Framework: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning Curriculum for Parent Education Programs in the Domains of Parent Development, Parent-Child Relationships, Early Childhood Development, Family Development, and Culture and Community. It has recently been updated and is available online and in hard copy through the National Parenting Education Network (NPEN) website.

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SRCD Policy Report Brief - Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Improving Quality

This brief summarizes a longer Social Policy Report. A quarter of the world's youngest children suffer one or more forms of severe deprivation and risk, such as poverty, disease, and exposure to violence. Early childhood development (ECD) programs are considered one of the most promising approaches to providing more equitable outcomes for deprived and at-risk children and families. While the number of children and families served by ECD programs has grown, research shows that without a concurrent commitment to program quality, potential gains for children may be lost and glaring disparities in outcomes maintained.

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HHS-ACF offers research grant to study toxic stress in infants and toddlers

June 07, 2011

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services has recently published a discretionary research funding announcement titled "Early Head Start University Partnership Grants: Buffering Children from Toxic Stress."