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Helping Children Deal with a Difficult Parent Post-Divorce
Click here to learn about helping children deal with difficult parent post-divorce. Coping with divorce and the divorce process can be hard on children of divorce especially where toxic parenting is the norm.
Helping Young Children Learn to Make Friends
With school starting up again, it’s important that parents think about ways they can help their children succeed not only academically, but also socially.
What Do Grown Children Owe Their Terrible, Abusive Parents?
What do we owe our tormentors? It’s a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or of psychological, ph ...
Survey Finds Half of Parents Struggle With Their Children's Homework
A new survey finds almost 50 percent of parents struggle to help their children with their homework.
Why Kids Care More About Achievement Than Helping Others
A new study suggests that parents and teachers may be sending kids the wrong message.
How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation
Be a Role Model: Find a Healthy Balance with Media and Technology
Young kids learn how to use technology by watching their parents, so model healthy habits early by balancing media time with real time. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.
How to keep children from skipping school
Beyond data, mentors can add a human touch and build relationships with at-risk students.
Why Do So Many Indian Children Go Missing?
8 Expert Tips on Helping Your Child With Dysgraphia
Learn about skillbuilding and strengthening activities that can help kids who struggle with handwriting. Get tips for helping your child with dysgraphia.
How Can Schools Tap Into Parent Power For the Good of Students?
A program pays teachers to visit students at home and meet with their family. The home visits have helped parents become better-informed advocates for their kids and stronger allies with teachers.
Dyslexia: The Learning Disability That Must Not Be Named
Many parents and teachers report that schools won't use the word dyslexia. Why might this be? And what is the Department of Education doing about it?
How to Raise Creative Children
Three rules that might make your child a future Nobel Prize winner
How to Talk to Teens About Dating Violence
Resources for parents to help guide conversations with their teens about dating violence and digital abuse.
Why Can’t We Stop Child Abuse?
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed?
Parent Guide to Bullying
Bullying is a main source of violence in school. Parents play a vital role in recognizing signs, supporting courage, and helping their child.
Why Preschool Suspensions Still Happen (And How To Stop Them)
Thousands of children in public pre-K, especially black preschoolers, are suspended each year. The problems are clear. So are some fixes.
Three Things Parents Should Tell Their Children
Elizabeth Smart, a former child abductee turned activist, gives her top three tips on what every parent should tell their children in order to protect them f...
PODCAST: Does Co-Sleeping With Children Make Someone A Better Parent?
What do you think of this Facebook post that has gone viral?
5 Ways Parents Can Support STEM Learning
By Sarah Cornelius - Take a look at these five simple tips to engage your child in STEM learning outside of the classroom.
