Recommended Web Sites

Becoming Parents: What It Means For Couples - FamilyDoctor.org provides this fact sheet.

Being a Single Parent - This advice also comes from FamilyDoctor.org.

Parenting Tips - Another good fact sheet from FamilyDoctor.org.

4Parents.gov - Great site with lots of good information for parents.

ABCs of Raising Healthy Kids - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have produced this guide.

About Parenting Special Needs - Like the one labeled above this commercial site has a large amount of useful information for parents of special needs children.

About Parenting of Teens - Another commercial site, but one with good information for parents of adolescents.

Adventures in Parenting - Try RPM3—a no-frills approach to parenting from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Numerous fact sheets can be accessed from this informative site.

Disciplining Your Child - KidsHealth offers this information for parents.

How Parenting Styles Influence Temperament - Learn how the way you treat your children helps mold them into the type of adults they will become.

KidsHealth.org for Parents - Created by the Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date and jargon-free health information.

MEDLINEPlus: Parenting - The librarians at the National Library of Medicine have gathered these links to good sites.

MothersWithAttitude - You will find plenty of humor, information and support at this site. Check out the weblogs and the links for more information.

The National Parenting Center - Good readings at this site about all kinds of parenting issues.

Nine Steps to More Effective Parenting - KidsHealth offers these 9 steps.

Parenting Adolescents - Small site with decent links to other resources on parents and teens.

Parenting Influences - The American Academy of Pediatrics has produced these items to think about.

A Parent's Guide to Tuning In to Young Adolescents - Sponsored by CourtTV and Cable in the Classroom, this site contains information about exploration, communication, expectation, and other topics for teens and parents.

PBSParenting - The Public Broadcasting Service offers great advice for parents on all kinds of topics relating to children and child rearing.

PositiveParenting - Resources, information, courses, a bookstore, and chat about parenting issues.

Stresses of Parenting - The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) offers this information.