Parenting Resources
Preventing Teen Depression
Tips for preventing teen depression in the teenage years as well as tips for preventing the onset of teen depression as early as the newborn stage.
Tips for Preventing Teen Depression in Your Elementary Age Child
As your child increases in age, continue to encourage healthy nutrition, eating together as a family, promoting adequate sleep, limiting screen time, and practicing authoritative parenting in addition to assigning your child chores, building and maintaining family connectednes and encouraging exercise and outdoor activities to prevent the onset of teen depression.
Tips for Preventing Teen Depression Starting in the Toddler & Preschool Years
Preventing teen depression starts long before your child becomes a teen. If you have a toddler or preschooler, begin your prevention strategy now by encouraging healthy nutrition, promoting adequate sleep, encouraging family meals, and limiting screen time
Preventing Teen Depression in the Newborn and Infant Stage
Both mothers and fathers play crucial and qualitatively different roles in the socialization of the child and thus each role is crucial to a child's opitmal development.
Tips for Parenting the "Only" Child
These children have the advantage of having undivided parental time, attention, and resources, but they can have a difficult time interacting with their peers and making friends as they have not had the practice at home of sharing, negotiating, and cooperating with siblings.
Parenting the "Baby" of the Family
Lastborns are acutely aware that they are the youngest members in the family and know they are competing with their older siblings for attention. They quickly learn they can capture everyone’s attention by making others laugh, so they tend to be engaging and enjoy the company of others.
Parenting Second Born Children and Middle Children
Second born children tend to “bounce off” the firstborn – or the child immediately ahead of them – often developing opposite traits of the firstborn. Middle children tend to be the most difficult to characterize, having contradictory personality traits.
Tips for Parenting Firstborn Children
While parents of firstborns tend to be inexperienced and possibly anxious as they are parenting for the first time, these parents may also have more time to parent than when they have subsequent children--which consequently impacts how the child develops.
How Birth Order Impacts Parenting
Although controversy still surrounds this topic, birth order can give us clues to a child’s development of intelligence and personality traits and help us parent appropriately.
Guiding Your Teen Toward Healthy Friendships
The definition and perceptions of friendship are changing because of the pervasive use of social media, so your adolescent may need some guidance regarding healthy friendships.