Keeping It All in Balance

Making family life a priority
Hyper-parenting
Healthy parenting
Fatherhood Magazine
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Fact Sheet on Helping Teenagers with Stress
Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For"

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balance + work + home
family-friendly workplaces

My Gray-Haired Parents

American Association of Retired People -- Grandparents
  www.aarp.org/grandparents
Connect for Kids
  www.connectforkids.org
Generations United
  www.gu.org
Grandparenting
  www.grandparentagain.com
GrandsPlace
  www.grandsplace.com

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parenting after 40
grandparents raising grandchildren

Skeletons in the Closet

Talking with kids about tough issues

 

Sources for Janet Mason Ellerby's book

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To Call or Not to Call

Prevent Child Abuse America
www.PreventChildAbuse.org
Connect for Kids
www.ConnectForKids.org (select "Child Abuse" and "Neglect" from Topics list)
American Human Association
www.AmericanHumane.org
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Safety Tips - PDF
www.MissingKids.org 

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Child abuse
Toll-free number for reporting child abuse in New York State:1-800-342-3720

Only Child/Lonely Child

Only Child Magazine
www.OnlyChild.com

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Only child
Only children
Birth order

Celebrating Success

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Mom, I'm Different

Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
www.gayalliance.org
Youth Resource
www.youthresource.com
Parents and Families of Lesbians and Gays
www.pflag.org
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
www.glsen.org

Recommended books:

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality
by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward

 

Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies
by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman

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Raising Moral Children

Proactive Parenting
www.eProactiveParenting.com
Moral Intelligence
www.MoralIntelligence.com
Character Counts
www.CharacterCounts.org
Using the media to teach ethics to children
www.TeachWithMovies.org

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raising moral children
teaching ethics to children

Grandpa Won't Be Coming Home Again

Teen Age Grief
www.smartlinknet/~tag/grief.html
Suggestions for Children Who are Grieving
www.healingheartsdallas.com/a_suggestions_for_children_who_are.htm
Grief Education Center
www.funeralplan.com/griefsupport/
Healing Hands for Hurting Hearts, student art in response to September 11th
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/fffteens/healing.html

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Grieving children
Teenagers and grief

The Addicted Child

National Center on Addition and Substance Abuse (CASA)
www.casacolumbia.org   
Talking with Kids About Tough Issues
www.talkingwithkids.org
Parenting is Prevention
www.parentingisprevention.org   
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions


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Kids + drugs
Substance abuse among children
Teen drug use

Parents Talk

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It's My Right

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