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Sally Koblinsky, Ph.D., and Zainab Okolo, M.A.
from Family Focus on Military Families

Military Families Internship: Strengthening families and communities

by Sally Koblinsky, Ph.D., professor, and Zainab Okolo, M.A., undergraduate coordinator, University of Maryland, College Park

When men and women serve our country, their families also serve. Among our current troops, 55% are married and more than 40% have children. The post-9/11 wars have been characterized by special challenges, including the increased number, length, and unpredictability of deployments.

25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes
from Zippy Weekly Videos

25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes

Who among us wouldn't like more bang for a buck? In this interesting and useful video, a creative young lady demonstrates how to accessorize 25 different ways with a simple scarf. When you're on a tight budget - or if you travel frequently and want to avoid extra baggage charges - being able to mix & match your wardrobe using as few pieces as possible is a good use of family resources. Enjoy!

Best Teachers Institute (and other resources promoted by Ken Bain)

Workshops, readings, and other resources that focus on Ken Bain's work related to "What the Best College Teachers Do."  Information about what a "promising syllabus" entails is provided.

What the Best College Teachers Do

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand.

23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
from Zippy Weekly Videos

23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Imagine if there were some magic elixir you could take to improve your life drastically. And what if it were available to you, and it was so convenient that you could keep 23.5 hours of your life exactly the same? And what if it didn't cost a penny? In this engaging and informative video Dr. Mike Evans, family physician and Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, discloses what this secret "medicine" is.

for Members and CFLEs ONLY

Military Family Bibliography

This resource list contains 24 categories with references specific to military culture, the military community, deployment & reintegration, military families, children, interventions, relationships, and trauma, The list was complied in support of educators, counselors, social workers, the military and civilian communities who support our armed forces.

from New from Child Trends

Frequent Residential Mobility and Young Children’s Well-Being

To read about this research, click here

Raising Teens Project

The Raising Teens Project found significant areas of agreement among experts on the parenting of adolescents-in spite of the broad diversity of cultures represented in the United States and the myriad individual differences in parents and children. Its central findings-Ten Tasks of Adolescent Development and Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents-cut across a broad range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives.

A Parent's Guide to Facebook

Welcome to the fully updated 2012 edition of A Parents' Guide to Facebook! It's designed to help you understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, you will be better informed and able to communicate with young Facebook users in your life more effectively. That's important because 1) if something goes wrong, we want our children to come to us and 2) as the Internet becomes increasingly social and mobile, a parent's guidance and support are ever more key to young people's well-being in social media and technology. The guidebook is published in partnership with the iKeepSafe Coalition.

ConnectSafely

ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space - linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together. Our forum is also designed to give teens and parents a voice in the public discussion about youth online safety begun back in the '90s. ConnectSafely also has all kinds of social-media safety tips for teens and parents, the latest youth-tech news, and many other resources.