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Parenting advice isn't only only about health and safety. These sites cover other important topics for the parent who wants to give their child a strong foundation: character education, diversity appreciation, media awareness, and more.
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The Power of Family Dinners
Read this report to learn the far-reaching value of this simple family ritual to remain connected and reduce your child's chance of getting into trouble. From the Natl Ctr on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. |
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Common Sense Media Reviews
Parental reviews of current movies, video games, and more. |
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KidsRisk Guide to Media Use
10 points for parents to consider about the impact of TV, movies and videos on your childs development, and the need for your supervision. |
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Media Wise.org
Our mission is to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of media on children through research, education and advocacy.Hot Topics include blurbs on brain development, onscreen violence, etc. |
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Family Education
Commercial site with too many ads, but also useful movie reviews and age-specific topics on school, entertainment, and parenting challenges. |
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Search Institute - Developmental Assets
40 Developmental Assets® are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. They have power during critical adolescent years to influence choices & help them become caring, responsible adults |
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The Volunteer Family
Strengthen your family bonds, and empower your child by learning to do good for others. Look here for different volunteer projects you can do as a family or a group.
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BabyCenter.com
Commercial site, but "Browse Stages" feature offers useful guides and articles on development and parenting topics. |
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