I Want to Make Friends combines a children’s picture book story with a focused parenting manual for guiding social skill development in young children ages 3-6. The story is engaging for the young child and teaches both the child and parent about effective strategies for interacting with peers and forming friendships. It is a good example of a children’s book that addresses both the child and adult audience and their different needs.
The Minnesota Association for Family and Early Education (MNAFEE) & The Minnesota Association for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health will hold Professional Development Workshops on Parent and Child Mental Health.
This comprehensive and contemporary book presents parent-child relations in historical and cultural contexts, emphasizing the similarities and differences in parent-child relationships across cultures, in age and gender, and related to parent-child interactions at each stage of life, with an in-depth treatment of parenting strategies.
Today's video is a humorous tribute to mothers! Whether you are a mother, or have a mother, you will appreciate that in addition to having eyes in the back of our heads, we moms also share a special language. Comedian Anita Renfroe captures this "Mother-ese." Enjoy! And happy Mothers Day to all mothers!
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.
A new Child Trends brief finds that relationship quality between parents is consistently and positively associated with better outcomes for children and families. This brief, Parental Relationship Quality and Child Outcomes across Subgroups, notes that the positive association holds across many subgroup comparisons, including income, marital status, parental education, and race/ethnicity. These analyses were completed using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health
