Parenting Teens Through Their Problems

• Here's What They Want
When teenagers bring parents their problems, the response is to offer suggestions and solutions. Why do teenagers so often dismiss those ideas?

Making Mistakes

• Mistakes Are Opportunities
Just ask Fred Rogers, here with pianist Andre Watts. With children, comment on the process, not the product. Help children refuel so they can try again. Let children see that adults make mistakes, too. For more information, sign up for more information through the Fred Rogers Center. 

Early Intervention for Preschoolers

• Early Intervention Can Change a Life
Early Intervention is a free, national program to help children under age 3 who have developmental delays and disabilities.

Protecting Against Sexual Predators

• Video Games and Online Chats Are ‘Hunting Grounds’ for Sexual Predators
Parents need to know what their children are playing online. Sometimes that means blocking users and shutting off chat functions, and sometimes it means monitoring the games as they are being played.

Preventing Teen Suicide

• Put Away the Screen & Go to Bed
Between 2007 and 2017 suicide has increased by 56% in 10 to 24-year-olds. Since 2011 youthful suicide attempts have increased 400% –– and that's an undercount. There is a compelling link between “problematic internet and social media use and sleep disturbance among youth,” and “these associations contribute to depressive symptoms in this group.”

Dressing Up in Costume

• The Meaning of Costumes and Masks
Much of children’s pretending and play comes out of their inner needs and feelings– and helps them work on their fears and master them. Fred Roger's said that play allows children to work on what’s close to their hearts, but from a safe distance.

Spanking

• Resolving Differences About Spanking
Teaching your children how to self-regulate requires tools and strategies for effective discipline. The word discipline, in fact, is derived from the Latin word discere, which means “to learn.”