A Parent’s Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed — Third Edition
This edition of the Parent’s Guide includes updated and more current results from the Student Attitudes and Behaviors Survey. Our world continues to change, and although the COVID-19 shutdown is in the past, the challenges our children face continue to increase. This is why we have added updated data and new resources on these critical and timely issues and more.
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The Parent’s Guide includes many references to websites, articles and resources. Below are additional direct links for you to explore.
Alcohol / Drugs / The Law
- Parenting to Prevent Childhood Alcohol Use (NIH/NIAAA)
- Growing Up Drug Free – A Parent’s Guide to Prevention (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration/U.S. Department of Education)
- Preventing Teen or Young Adult Drug Use: How to Talk With Your Child (Partnership for Drug Free Kids)
- An Act Concerning Underage Drinking: Public Act No. 06-112
Bullying
Mental Health / Suicide
- 5 Things Parents Need to Know About Back to School & Mental Health
- Parent’s Guide to Teen Depression (HelpGuide.org)
- How To Help Your Child – A Parent’s Guide to OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago)
- National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) Parent Tool Kit
- 10 Things Parents Need to Know About Eating Disorders – Dr. Ovidio Bermudez
- Warning Signs of Suicide and Ways to Get Help
- How To Talk To Children About Suicide: An Age-By-Age Guide
Social Emotional Learning / RULER Approach
- RULER – A Systematic Approach to SEL (The Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence)
- A Parents Guide to Social Emotional Learning (Edutopia)
The Developing Brain
Vaping / Smoking
- What You Need to Know And How to Talk With Your Kids About Vaping
- Tobacco 21 (Tobacco Addiction Foundation)