Children Parents and Families
Make Time to Practice Home-Alone Skills
If you’re thinking about having your children go home alone after school, you can to teach them skills, define rules and encourage them to be in charge while you’re nearby.
Teaching Confidence
To build their own skills, children need to have the opportunity to experience feeling capable and able.
Separation, Divorce and Children in the Middle
Parents Forever covers three areas of help for families.
Touch Important to Babies
Research during the past several years tells us that babies cannot be spoiled by being held.
Work on Environmental Wellness as a Family
Wellness is an important topic for everyone in the family.
Making Holiday Memories With Grandkids
The holidays are a special time for us to come together as families to reconnect, enjoy each other’s company and reflect on many good memories of the past.
Take Action During Medicare Open Enrollment
If you are on Medicare, you already may be on a prescription drug plan, also known as Medicare Part D.
Make Waiting, Transitions Easier for Young Children
Waiting is an important skill to learn, and it can be peaceful if we prepare young children for the inevitable “waiting times.”
Are You Having "The Talk" About Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs?
Calendars already are filling up with exciting events for high school-age students. Prom and graduation top the list for many as “rites of passage.”
Extending Support for Farmers, Ranchers in Times of Stress
Many farmers, agricultural professionals and family members are facing increased stresses linked with uncertain market conditions. The hours they must spend in checking on market prospects, reviewing financial needs, and making farming decisions can be long, stressful and tiring.
If Meals Were More Fun
Shared mealtimes with family members seem to be going the way of the dinosaur for many American households.
Father Involvement and the Future of Children and Families
Q: Why is father involvement a topic of social concern in America today?
Grit
Picture the person you might think of as stubborn, obstinate, uncompromising, adamant, hard-headed, insistent or unrelenting. Do you have someone in mind? Now think about a person who you would call determined, unwavering, strong-minded, gritty, persistent, firm, steadfast, resolute or persevering. What about now? Do you have someone in mind?
Can We Talk? Making Couple Communication Effective
You cannot not communicate. It’s a rule. It’s a law of the universe. It’s a reality.
How Much is Too Much?
All I want for (insert occasion here) is one of these, and one of these, and, oh! ALL of these! Please? (Picture adorable face of child, grandchild, nephew or niece, eyes wide, smiling hopefully.)
Differing Family Traditions at the Holiday Season
Traditions offer family members an opportunity to feel included, share values and connect with each other in meaningful ways. While many link the holiday season with family traditions involving a celebration, celebration is only one type of tradition. The other major types are traditions of connection and traditions of community.
Winter Weather: Kids Won’t Want to Waste a Flake
A warm sweater and slippers, a toasty cup of cocoa, a good book or movie all sound like the perfect weekend plan to many adults who have to battle the elements all week getting people to school, work and childcare. Kids on the other hand are excited for the snow and all the fun that comes with the fluffy white stuff.
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