Parents
Health Education Resources
Prescriptions For Parents:
Flash Presentation
A Physicians Guide to Adolescence and Sex
Available in English and Chinese
This interactive presentation turns your home computer into a parenting resource center. Narration video, animation, and text combine to form an easy-to-understand yet powerful educational tool that provides medically-accurate information on adolescent development and sexual health.
Topics Include:
- Communication
- Character
- Puberty
- Reproduction
- Sexuality
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sex Q&A: Book
Kids' Questions - Parents' Answers
Available in English and Spanish
Newly designed and revised, this popular resource provides parents and health educators with the facts they need to discuss sexual issues with adolescents. Written with the expertise of physicians nationwide, the new "Q&A" booklet is easy to read and medically-accurate.
Topics Include:
- How to Begin the Talk
- Adolescent Brain Development
- Ten Pointers for Parents
- Puberty
- Reproduction
- Sexuality
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Emotional/Social Issues
Newsletters
Making scientific research practical for parents. Each newsletter reports on current medical literature concerning parenting and families, and provides hints on how to practically apply the information. Subscribe to our email list today to receive video newsletters on a regular basis.
Parenting Handouts
Written by an experienced pediatrician, these handouts provide practical information for parents. There are age-specific handouts for children from birth through adolescence with information that is based upon children’s behavior and developmental stages as well as scientific research. There are also handouts on specific topics, including toilet training, discipline, homework, internet safety and fever.
