Parenting

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Summary

If you're a parent, you get plenty of suggestions on how to raise your child. From experts to other parents, people are always ready to offer advice. Parenting tips, parents' survival guides, dos, don'ts, shoulds and shouldn'ts - new ones come out daily.

The truth is there is more than one "right" way to be a good parent. Good parenting includes:

• Keeping your child safe
• Showing affection and listening to your child
• Providing order and consistency
• Setting and enforcing limits
• Spending time with your child
• Monitoring your child's friendships and activities
• Leading by example

NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Start Here

• Effective Parenting (American Academy of Pediatrics) Also in Spanish
• Nine Steps to More Effective Parenting (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
• Positive Parenting: Building Healthy Relationships with Your Kids (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish

Related Issues

• Constantly Connected: How Media Use Can Affect Your Child (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Delving Into Devices: Children and Screen Time (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
• Kids and Media Use: How to Build Healthy Habits (Nemours Foundation)
• Shape Your Family's Habits: Helping Kids Make Healthy Choices (National Institutes of Health)

Specifics

• Adoption and Foster Care (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Body Image in Children and Teens (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
• Importance of Family Routines (American Academy of Pediatrics) Also in Spanish
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Parenting a Child Who Has Been Sexually Abused: A Guide for Foster and Adoptive Parents (Children's Bureau) - PDF
• Talk to Your Kids about Sex and Healthy Relationships (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) Also in Spanish
• Talk to Your Kids about Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) Also in Spanish
• Talking to Kids About Race and Racism (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
• Teaching Your Child Self-Control (Nemours Foundation)
• The Power of Peers: Who Influences Your Health? (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
• Your Child's Self-Esteem (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Parenting (National Institutes of Health)

Find an Expert

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Also in Spanish
• KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation)

Teenagers

• Parenting Teens: Guiding Kids Through Turbulent Years (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
• Parenting Your Adopted Teenager (Children's Bureau) - PDF
• Sex Education: Talking to Your Teen about Sex (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
• Share Your Values (American Academy of Pediatrics) Also in Spanish
• When To Let Your Teenager Start Dating (American Academy of Pediatrics) Also in Spanish

Patient Handouts

• Talk to Your Kids about Sex and Healthy Relationships (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) Also in Spanish
• Talk to Your Kids about Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) Also in Spanish
• Talking to your teen about drinking (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Time outs (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish