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Host a parenting workshop, or a parent's club video and discussion group.
This Fall, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is hosting several free parenting workshops.
Click on the picture for more information.
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After a losing game, most parents find it difficult to think of something positive to say to their children. What they do say (usually automatically) may not give their children what they need most – ENCOURAGEMENT.
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Links to information for parents on youth suicide prevention.
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Links to information for parents on dating violence.
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Parents are the most important sex educators of children, and helping children grow up to be sexually healthy is a big responsibility. Learning about sex is a process that needs to be taken in steps, beginning in early childhood. The following are some guidelines that may help to encourage the development of your children into loving, caring, sexually healthy adults.
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Giving our children responsibility for their safety is a gradual process. Gavin de Becker, in his book, Protecting the Gift, offers a test of what children should know before they are ever alone in pubic. De Gavin (1999) states that it is our job as parents to give them the information and personal power to pass his "Test of Twelve."
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A link for parents on safe and responsible Internet use.
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Children need comfort and support when they share their feelings. Parents need to encourage children to talk about their feelings, and not be afraid of them.
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Whether we're aware or not we continually send messages to ourselves. Usually the first message we send ourselves is negative (or bad). If we think negative we usually start to feel negative. In order to stop this negative thinking, we need to immediately change this negative thought to a positive thought. You can help your child change negative thoughts to positive ones.
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Children and Stress: 7 Key Concepts
(Adapted from: "Kids Have Stress Too," 1999)
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This is a link to information from Dr. David Wolfe, RBC Investments Chair in Children's Mental Health & Developmental Psychology. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
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