Parenting and Family
Handouts
100 Tips For Parents
Pathfinder Services of ND
These tips have been created to help you become more involved in your child's education. As a more involved parent, you improve your child's chances to be successful in school. For each topic, you will find suggestions for how you can obtain additional information and assistance.
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Be Prepared! Your Guide to Getting Ready For Any Emergency
Channing Bete
Durable credit-card-sized guide boils down a wealth of emergency-preparedness facts to the essentials that every family should have on hand. Guide folds out to provide a fill-in emergency plan and a checklist for stocking an emergency preparedness kit.
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Being A Good Father
Channing Bete
This pamphlet prompts men to meet their children's physical, emotional, and developmental needs. Promotes positive discipline, urges readers to be the best fathers they can be, and includes tips on co-parenting and staying involved when living apart from one's children.
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Managing Parental Stress
Channing Bete
This pamphlet discusses sources of parental stress, such as the challenge of balancing work and family life, and provides stress-management strategies to help prevent the outbursts of anger that can occur when parents feel overwhelmed.
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Parenting a Child With Special Needs
Channing Bete
This pamphlet provides an introduction to interventions and helps improve parents' understanding of ways they can help their child grow (while growing in confidence themselves). Discusses appropriate services and resources, and the laws that benefit people with special needs.
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Parenting Children with Disabilities
Channing Bete
This booklet explains that children with disabilities often need additional support from caregivers to ensure their health and safety. Urges parents to learn about their child's disability, practice positive discipline, communicate openly, and manage stress. Also covers individualized family service plans and individualized education plans. Includes information about protecting children from abuse and neglect, building a support network, and much more.
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Online Resources
Sibling Issues
CPIR
We know from the experiences of families and the findings of research that having a child with a disability powerfully affects everyone in the family. What do the siblings have to say about their experience of having a brother or sister with a disability?
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The Unplanned Journey - When You Learn That Your Child Has a Disability
CPIR
The birth of a child with a disability, or the discovery that a child has a disability, can have profound effects on the family. This article will provide additional information to support the life cycle, health, and well-being of the family when a member has a disability.
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Websites
Parents Lead
Parents Lead is a collaboration between the ND Department of Human Services, ND Department of Transportation, and ND University System. Its mission is to support parents in promoting the behavioral health of their children.
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Agencies & Organizations
NDSU Parent Education Network
The mission of the North Dakota Parent Education Network is to provide research-based parent education to North Dakota Parents.
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