Learning to Listen

Guidelines for Dessert

Not Unless you Finish Your Dinner

10 Family Guidelines for Living
with a hyperactive child
10 Tips for Talking with Kids About the News
A Best-Kept Secret of Your Teen: They Really Do Care What You Think
A Checklist for Parents and Teenagers
A Doctor Challenges Teens to Act Responsibly
A Parent's Response to bullying
A Parent's role in preventing eating disorders
A tired child may not be sick
AAP Offers Advice on Communicating with Children about Disasters
Ad Spotlights Teen Abuse of Medicinal Drugs
ADHD and Your School-Aged Child
Adolescence (eating disorders, fatigue, family, gu
Adolescence (peers,questioning,rules)
Adolescence (Suicide, Tobacco)
Adolescence (understanding, vehicles, extra readin
Adolescence(body changes,communication,drugs)
Adolescence(hepatitis,independence,juvenile delinq
Adolescence(Learning disability, Music, Nutrition,
Adolescent Rebellion can be Quelled
Adolescent Suicide:
What are the Warning Signs?
Advise Teens: Sharing Prescriptions is Dangerous
Anorexia Nervosa: A serious eating disorder
Answers to questions about ADD/ADHD
Are You a Healthy Eater?
Are You an Emotional Eater?
Are You Contributing to An Eating Disorder in your Child?
Arguing and Back-Talk
Arguing and Back-Talk
Asking Your Teen about Relationship Violence
Attention Deficit Disorder (Short Attention Span)
Be sure to ask the right questions
Body Mass Index
Bribery vs. Reinforcement
Bulimia: A common eating disorder
Bully Proofing Our Kids
Bullying
Can I Borrow the Car?
Caretaking Parents, Entitled Kids
Children and Stress: Are you pushing your child too hard?
Children and Terrorism
Children Grieve in Their Own Ways
Children's Sleep Habits
Childrens Sleep Problems: What they are and what to do about them
Choosing a Drug Treatment Program
Communicating with health care providers about developmental and behavioral topics
Communicating with Your Teen

Communicating with your teen: Door Openers and Door Slammers

Communication Tips for Parents
Creating a "Backtalk-Free" Home
Deal Calmly with Anxiety Attacks
Depression in Children
Diagnostic Guidelines for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Discipline
Disorders That Affect Adolescents
Divorced or Separated Parents can make holidays bright for children
Do You Know Where Your Child Is?
Does my child have A D D ?
Ego-Builders to Use with Your Teen
Examining Eating Disorders
Experts Offer Free Advice About Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Facts on Sports and Smoke Free Youth
Family Meetings Build Stronger Ties
Family: Your child's best anti-drug
First Cigarette in Grade 6 or Below Not Uncommon
Five Truths about Teen Smoking
Four Big Tips for Parents of Teens
Good Teens Start With Good Beans
Gov't Warns Of Inhalant Abuse Among Kids
Growth Milestones - 12 Years
Guidelines for using Time Out with Children and Pre-teens
Habit ReversalTraining
Hair Tests reveal Ecstasy Use on the Rise
Healthy Sexuality in Children
Healthy Sexuality in Children, part 2
Help Steer Teens Away from Alcohol
Help your Teen Lose Weight
Helping Children Deal with Teasing
Helping Children Grow Socially
Helping Children Manage Their Weight
Helping Children who are Bullied
Helping Kids stand up to peer pressure
Helping Our Children Deal with Shocking Events
Helping our Children Feel Safe: Tips for Every Parent
Helping your Child Cope
Helping Your Teenager Cope with Cliques
How are Our Boys Doing?
How much at Risk is your Teenager
How Much at Risk is your Teenager?
How Much Smokers Pay for Cigarettes
How to decode your teen
How to Help Teenage Girls Blossom
How to Help the Grieving Teenager
How to keep your teen safe on the Internet
How to Live with an Adolescent
How to make sure your child does not become a BULLY
How to Talk so your Teen will Listen

Hyperactivity and Attention-Deficit Disorder

Inhalant Abuse Information for Parents
Inhalants - A Middle-School addiction that kills
Innocence Lost: Helping your child cope with tragedy
Is it okay to search my kid's room?
Is Working After School Good for Teens?
Is your child at risk for an eating disorder (results and resources)
Is your teen at risk for an eating disorder?
Is Your Teen Drug Dependent? Would You Ever Know?
It's Time for the Big Talk
Now what?
Its a Drug and its not benign
Just a Few Clicks Away
Keeping Your Child Substance Free
Kids Heed Anti-Smoking Messages From Schools, Parents
Kids Need Encouragement Not to Smoke
Know the Signs of Eating Disorders
Lessons Learned from Littleton
Make America Safe for Children
Marijuana Slang Dictionary
Marijuana Teen Questions
Marijuana: How to Tell Your Kids to Say No, Even if You Didnt
Mastering the Change from Elementary to Middle School
Mommy, what does it mean to be gay?
Most Headaches not Cause for Serious Concern
My kid, the Lawer Wannabe
Nail Biting
Narrow down the causes of sudden declining grades in your teen
New Book Clears Up Misconceptions About Eating Disorders
Nine Tips for Raising Unspoiled Kids
Nine Ways to Help Your Child Fail
Not Going to School - Separation Anxiety
One Test You Don't Want To FailThinking About Drug Testing
Our Children: Are They Suffering From Stress?
Our Resources for Avoiding a Parent's Worst Nightmare - Substance Abuse
Out of Control Teen Drinking Devastating
Overweight Children - a light at the end of the tunnel
Overweight Kids More Likely To Be Bullied
Overweight: A Weight Reduction Program
Parenting of teens has roots in Toddlerhood
Parenting Tip of the Week - How to Tell if It Really Hurts
Parenting Tip of the Week
Family Overload and How to Manage It!
Parenting your teenager: It doesn't have to be all or nothing!
Parenting Your Teenager: Who - What - Where - When
Parents and Coaches can save good sportsmanship from extinction
Parents Should Help Kids Prepare for September 11 Anniversary
Parents! Join the Fight Against Teen Smoking
Parents' Involvement Helps Kids Overcome Peer Influence on smoking
Pediatricians Urge Elimination of Smoking from Movies

Point-Counterpoint: What to say to your kids about Marijuana

Preparing our kids for peer pressure
Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis among American Teens
Preventing Adolescent Suicide
Prom: PROMise to Keep It Safe
Psychological effects of childhood obesity
Put a Stop to Teenage Bullying Behavior
Put Your Best Face Forward
Raising Self-Assured Teenage Girls
Resisting Peer Pressure - Advice from Teens
Respect: Getting What You Give
SeeSaw: A Teen's Right to Privacy
Setting Limits with Teens
Seven Parenting Tips to Help Your Kids Avoid Drugs
SIBLING RIVALRY OR SIBLING ABUSE?
Siblings Fighting with Each Other
Sleep-Deprived Teens Pose Safety Hazard
Spring Break and your Adolescent
Stages of Adolescent Substance Abuse
Stayling Home Alone - Is your chld ready to fly solo?
Stepfamilies - Facts and Fictions
Steroids Don't Work Out
Stomach Pain can Tell Another Story
Stomach Pain is Common
Stop Picking Your Nose
Successfully Raising Teenagers in Today's Crazy World
Summer Months Tempting Time for Teenagers to Try Drugs, Alcohol for the First Time
Symptoms of Adolescent Depression
Talking to Kids about Puberty
Talking to Teens about Sexuality
Talking with Children about Today's Tragic Events
Talking with kids
Talking with Kids about Smoking
Talking with Kids About War
Talking with your Kids: Resources on Kidsgrowth.com
Teaching Kids how to Avoid Peer Pressure
Teasing and the Short Child
Teen Curfews
Teen Facts
Teen Gambling is not always a safe bet!
Teens abusing cold remedies in record numbers to attain PCP-like high
Teens and Depression
Teens at Risk: Stressors and Signs
Teens staying home alone this summer
Teens' reactions following a Crisis
Ten Signs Your Teenager is Burning Out
Ten Things Every Teen Should Know About Marijuana
Ten Tips for Live-away Fathers
Ten Tips for Nurturing Your Child
Ten Tips For Parents To Help Their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy

The Anxious Child

The Brain's Response to Drugs
The Effects of Anabolic Steroid Abuse
The Enforcer Strikes Out
The Facts about Cocaine
The Facts of Cough Medicine Abuse
The Family Chip/Reward System
The Good News and Bad News about Teen Driving
The Hidden Consequences of College-Age Drinking
The Myths and Realities of Adolescent Suicide
The peril of drunk driving
The Respectful Child
Therapy Helps Teens with Social Phobia
Three Mistakes Parents of Overweight Kids Make
Three Teen Tools to Create Cooperation and Build Respect
Tips for Parents: Helping Kids say No to drinking
Tips for Raising Teenagers
Tips for Spotting Adolescent Depression
Tips for Teens: The Truth About Tobacco
To Clean or Not to Clean (Your Child's Room)
Tobacco Industry Targeting Teens
Too Sexy, Too Soon
Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling) in Children
Trips to the Bathroom
Turn the Radio Down!
TWO STATISTICS THAT SHOULD CONCERN PARENTS
Understanding Teen Suicide
Understanding Teens: Opening the Door to a Better Relationship
Understanding the feelings and behaviors of the Middle School Child
Using Tampons: Advice for the Teenage Girl
Using Time Out for Negative Behaviors
Violence is Back in the News
Weathering the Tween Years
Weight can Damage Self-Esteem
What are Your Values?
What Could Happen if You Drink and Drive
What is bullying?
What Parents Can Do to Help their daughters love their bodies!
What Parents Should Know about Club Drugs
What should I do if my child says he or she is too scared to go to sleep?
What to Do If a Friend Talks of Suicide
What to Do if You Don't Like the Letters in that Little Piece of Paper Called a Report Card
What to do if your child is being bullied
What to do when a Child Steals
What to Expect of Your Teenager
What to Say if Your Teen is Smoking
What Your Pediatrician is Reading:
Quick Tool May Help Identify Victims of Abuse
When a Child Uses Bad Language
When Busy is Too Busy

When Children Lie

When Older kids steal
When should parent's search their child's room?
Why do Teens Cave into Peer Pressure?
Why Won't My Child Talk To Me?
Winds of Change
Worries about Weight
You can Save Your Child's Life
Your Kids and Drugs: 20 Tips for Parents to Help You Make a Difference

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