Parenting Resources
As a parent and caregiver, you serve as a role model, establishing a foundation of health and wellness for your children. By practicing self-care yourself and actively participating in your children's lives, the guidance, support, and examples you set lay the groundwork for a lifetime of health and wellness.
Kids should come with parenting instructions
Since kids don’t come with instructions, check out these fun tools to help your child learn how everything works from head to toe.
- Get parenting tips | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Your guide to healthy parenting
- 8 parenting goals to start the new year | American Academy of Pediatrics
- 9 steps to more effective parenting | Cook Children's
- A guide for first-time parents | Cook Children's
- Becoming a Foster Parent: FAQs | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Building health relationships with your kids | National Institutes of Health
- Choosing and instructing a babysitter | Cook Children's
- Disciplining your toddler | Cook Children's
- Effective parenting | Cook Children's
- Foster parenting | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Getting teens involved in their health care | Cook Children's
- How to find affordable health care | Cook Children's
- Parenting a child with ADHD | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Parenting a teen with ADHD | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Parenting a teen with ADHD | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Parenting after trauma: Understanding your child's needs | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Parenting multiples | Cook Children's
- Parenting your baby | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Parenting your toddlers | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Positive parenting | National Institutes of Health
- Raising healthy kids: preparing for a checkup | Center for Community Health
- Raising healthy kids what to expect at a checkup | Center for Community Health
- Thinking about adoption: FAQs | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Tips for divorcing parents | Cook Children's
- Coping with stress and violence at home | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Everybody gets mad: helping your child cope with conflict | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Finding mental health care for your child | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Helping children handle stress | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Just breathe: the importance of meditation breaks for kids | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Mental health care providers for kids: who's who | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Music and mood | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Permission to unplug: the health benefits of yoga for kids | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Positive childhood experiences | Center for Community Health
- Resiliency of military children video | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Staying cool when things heat up | American Academy of Pediatrics
- When a loved one dies: how to help your child | Cook Children's
- When a pet dies | Cook Children's
- Your child's first crush | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Your child's self-esteem | Cook Children's
- Answering questions about sex | Cook Children's
- Birth control: what parents need to know | Cook Children's
- Female reproductive system | Cook Children's
- Male reproductive system | Cook Children's
- Sexual development | Cook Children's
- Sexual orientation | Cook Children's
- STDs – sexually transmitted diseases | Cook Children's
- Talking to your child about periods | Cook Children's
- Talking to your child about puberty | Cook Children's
- Teaching kids about their bodies | Cook Children's
- About birth control | Cook Children's
- Abusive relationships | Cook Children's
- Am I in a healthy relationship? | Cook Children's
- Are condoms 100% effective? | Cook Children's
- Birth control methods: how well do they work? | Cook Children's
- Can a condom wrapper break while it's in your wallet? | Cook Children's
- Can a girl get pregnant if she has sex during her period? | Cook Children's
- Can a girl have sex with a tampon in? | Cook Children's
- Can I get pregnant from oral sex? | Cook Children's
- Coming out | Cook Children's
- Condoms | Cook Children's
- Female reproductive system | Cook Children's
- How to break up respectfully | Cook Children's
- Is it ok to have sex while you have your period? | Cook Children's
- Sexual harassment and sexual bullying | Cook Children's
- Sexual violence and rape: what you need to know | Cook Children's
- STDs - sexually transmitted diseases | Cook Children's
- Talking to your partner about condoms | Cook Children's
- Talking to your partner about STDs | Cook Children's
- Tampons, pads, and other period supplies | Cook Children's
- What if the condom slips off during sex? | Cook Children's
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