Information and resources for parents (primarily) about a number of concerns affecting some adolescents, including understanding teen behavior, drug and alcohol use, mental health, suicide prevention, teen depression, driving, stress, and Internet safety.
CHADD provides a forum for support and continuing education and provides evidence-based information about AD/HD to parents, educators, adults, professionals, and the media. It also promotes ongoing research and advocates on behalf of the AD/HD community.
Information on hundreds of recommended toys. Dr. Toy (Dr. Stevanne Auerbach) produces a syndicated column for King Features Syndicate distributed to 1,500 newspapers nationwide.
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families including adoption issues, depression, divorce issues, ADD, stealing, lying, and much more.
Information on childhood diseases and immunization: hepatitis B, chicken pox, mumps and measles, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Be patient: it sometimes takes a while to get access to this site.
Contains a FAQ file, ideas on how to talk to your child about the problem, information on moisture alarms, questionnaires and charts, and similar content and tools to help parents deal with this common childhood condition.
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.
This site reviews movies, music, television, and books. Media is rated based on developmental criteria recommendations from some of the nation's leading authorities. ON, OFF, and PAUSE buttons act as quick guides to help parents figure out what media is right for your kids. Kids are also encouraged to submit their opinions. Among their "ten common sense beliefs" is "We believe in media sanity, not censorship."
This site's "About Us" page says: Our reviews are objective, non-critical assessments of the potentially objectionable material contained in movies and are primarily addressed to parents. We don't tell parents whether a movie is good or bad...We simply list material that parents may not want their kids to watch or hear. Then parents can decide whether a movie is OK for their own kids, according to their own criteria.
From Yahoo! Movies, Movie Mom provides parents with the information they need to decide which movies, DVDs and videos are best for kids from ages 2 through 18. "Movie Mom" is Nell Minow, who has been featured in national newspapers and television programs. She is an author and has her own radio program.
Provides parent-oriented reviews of popular movies, music, and videos. The free access portion of this site does contain advertising. You can subscribe and therefore bypass the ads and get additional enhancements.
A program of Wheeler Clinic, the Clearinghouse is funded by the CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. It is Connecticut's resource center for information about alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and related issues affecting mental health and wellness.
A service of of the Citizens forConnecticut's Children and Youth, a state-wide, citizen-based child advocacy group, in partnership with Yale. Includes information on legislation affecting children, articles written by students, and Internet information.
Designed to be a primary resource for fathers. Brief articles containing advice on a variety of fathering issues. Members may also use chat and bulletin boards to discuss their issues.
Devoted to raising special kids with special needs, everything from indefinite developmental delays and sensory integration problems, to cerebral palsy, to rare genetic disorders. This website supports the our-kids email list. Hosted/sponsored by St. John's University.
This iVillage site provides links to articles about children from gestation and infancy through the teen years. A wide variety of experts and advisors (pediatricians, nurse-midwives, social workers, dieticians, etc.) write columns and answer questions.
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