Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet

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You are in section: Table of Contents Letter from the Associate Commissioner About This Packet Protective Factors for Promoting Healthy Families Partnering With Parents and Caregivers Promoting the Five Protective Factors Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Parenting and of Child and Youth Development Parental Resilience Social Connections Concrete Supports for Parents Using Tip Sheets for Parents Bonding With Your Baby Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une Dealing With Temper Tantrums Los berrinches Setting Rules With Teens Los adolescentes y las reglas Finding Help When You Need It Obtenga ayuda cuando la necesite Raising Your Grandchildren Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente Tools for Engaging Your Community Talking Points Community Strategies Pitching Story Ideas to the Media Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Child Maltreatment National Organizations That Protect Children and Promote Healthy Families

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Chapter 3: Tip Sheets for Parents: Using Tip Sheets for Parents

This chapter includes five tip sheets to help service providers offer guidance and suggestions to parents on specific issues that support the five protective factors. These tip sheets, like the other resources in this packet, were created with input from experts from national organizations that work to protect children and promote healthy families. The information is easy to read and focuses on steps that parents and caregivers can take to care for their children and strengthen their family.

The tip sheets provide a starting point for discussion and are most effective when shared with parents in the context of a particular concern or question. Some ideas to share with parents in these discussions include:

• It is normal for families to have this experience (e.g., for toddlers to have temper tantrums or for teens to push limits).
• No parent can be an expert on everything.
• Everyone needs help at some point.
• There are many ways of dealing with this problem; as a parent, you need to choose what will work best for your family.
• Parenting any child is challenging. Parenting a child with a disability can be even more demanding and require extra supports.
• Help can be as close as a neighbor, but there are many other resources in your community.

The five tip sheets that follow address these topics:

• Bonding With Your Baby—Written to help new parents understand the importance of early and secure attachment.
• Dealing With Temper Tantrums—Includes tips on how to prevent and handle toddler tantrums while modeling calm behavior.
• Setting Rules With Teens—Designed to help parents of teenagers work with their teens to set rules and consequences that promote responsible behavior.
• Finding Help When You Need It—Provides suggestions for identifying and connecting with informal and formal helping networks.
• Raising Your Grandchildren—Written to help caregivers deal with some of the unique challenges of parenting grandchildren and find concrete supports in the community.

This booklet also includes Spanish versions of these five tip sheets. These versions convey similar messages to the English, but they have been adapted slightly for readability and cultural appropriateness. On the Spanish side of "Raising Your Grandchildren," for example, the focus is on raising any relative's child rather than specifically on grandchildren.

Additional resources are available through the national organizations.

Tip sheets may be downloaded individually for distribution at http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/res_packet_2008/. More parenting tip sheets are available in the Parenting Resources section of the Child Welfare Information Gateway website: http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/promoting/parenting

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You are in section: Table of Contents Letter from the Associate Commissioner About This Packet Protective Factors for Promoting Healthy Families Partnering With Parents and Caregivers Promoting the Five Protective Factors Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Parenting and of Child and Youth Development Parental Resilience Social Connections Concrete Supports for Parents Using Tip Sheets for Parents Bonding With Your Baby Usted y su bebé: El lazo que los une Dealing With Temper Tantrums Los berrinches Setting Rules With Teens Los adolescentes y las reglas Finding Help When You Need It Obtenga ayuda cuando la necesite Raising Your Grandchildren Cómo criar al hijo de un pariente Tools for Engaging Your Community Talking Points Community Strategies Pitching Story Ideas to the Media Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Child Maltreatment National Organizations That Protect Children and Promote Healthy Families

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