Parenting Resources
Teaching Adolescents Self-Control
Allowing the opportunity to problem solve and teaching time management are good ways to teach your adolescent self-control.
What is Self-Control
Self-control is self-discipline or willpower – the ability to manage impulses and emotions and to regulate behavior.
Hazards of Teen Marijuana Use
Because of the developmental brain changes that occur during the teen years, the risks of marijuana use by adolescents are greater than those faced by adults.
Hazards of Marijuana
Marijuana can have serious long-lasting effects.
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 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.