Parenting Education
When you became a parent, did you receive specific training on how to handle temper tantrums, how to manage complex family budgets with limited resources, how to deal with the needs of a teenager and how to prepare your child for the real world? Probably not!
Most careers provide and even require on-going professional development. Why should it be any different for you as a leader in your family? Parenting education can give you ideas and tips AND make parenting FUN! Check out these resources and opportunities. For more information, e-mail or call Jane at 608-326-0223.
Stay tuned for up-coming classes available in Crawford County!
Expecting a baby? How exciting and how scary. These newsletters cover each trimester of pregnancy and help you prepare for birth and beyond! Check out Preparing to Parent
Get FREE messages on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby’s first year. This service is an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.
Parenting the First Year Becoming a parent is an exciting change in your life. But it can be a stressful and trying time too. In this FREE set of 12 newsletters, find out from child development experts how your baby changes during each month of the first year. Subscribe to the newsletter and you will get the latest information on child development, nutrition, health, safety, child care, changes in family life, and much more.
Parenting the Second and Third Year Being a parent gets more exciting as your toddler learns to talk, play with you and others, and make decisions. Your toddler’s curiosity will delight you, as well as frustrate and tire you. In this FREE set of 12 newsletters, find out from child development experts how your toddler changes during each two months of the second and third years. Guiding and caring for your child these next two years will take a lot of your attention, encouragement, patience, humor – and a sense of wonder.
Parenting the Preschooler is designed for parents and caregivers of preschool age children. This monthly newsletter focuses on a different topic each month . Check out the current issue as well as all those that are archived.
Parenting Future Readers Learning to read is one of those goals that all parents share for their children, and well it should be. Early reading ability is one of the key predictors of how children will succeed in their later schooling and life. And while schools and child care programs can have a big effect on the development of literacy, families still have the biggest impact. Find out what parents of babies, toddlers and preschoolers can do to help build their child’s future reading skills.
We are lucky in Crawford County to have a wonderful Family Resource Center! Family Resource Center is located at 800 East Taylor in Prairie du Chien and offers classes and support groups, a toy lending library, parenting books and videos, one-on-one consulation and many other resources to make your job as a parent a little easier. Call their Warm LIne at 1-800-241-WARM or 608-357-2135 for information and a friendly voice. Check here for their latest newsletter: Dec-Jan-Feb 2010-2011 FRC Newsletter pdf
Schoolagers come with their own sets of challenges and ways to make you smile. For a variety of topics related to ages 6 -12, click here. FInd out how to parent when your kids are out in the world and out of sight!
Wondering if your child is old enough to by themselves after school?
Teaching Self-care to Schoolagers is a set of 13 lesson sheets to help families determine when children are ready for self-care and teach safe self-care skills to school-age children home alone.
Exciting, embassing and sometimes extreme-how do you stay connected to kids who want to fly? Parenting 247 offers tips, videos, articles, news and commetary to help you and your teen get through this transition successfully.
Looking for information across a wide span of ages?
Newsletters and other Resources from UW-Extension
Parenting 247 A “one-stop” source of news, informtion and advice on parenting and famiy life from University of Illinoise Extesnion. Designed for parents and grandparents of children from birth through the teens, it provides feature articles with research-based information, video clips of parents and experts, breaking news and commentary, newsletters and recommendations to the parenting resources on the web.
The break-up of a relationship is difficult for everyone in the family. The good news is that research shows us how to ease the stress and minimize the negative impact on children. Consider these resources:
No Longer Together but Parents Forever: Co-Parenting Education Class
We Can Parent Together Tips for parentsto come together for the benefit of the children.
Do you know what happens when separeted parents meedle in each other’s parenting? Check out this on-line article.
Additional for famlies experiencing divorce/separation:
On-line webinars can be a great way to learn at a time and pace conventient to you. The downside is that you are often by yourself and don’t have anyone to discuss the ideas being presented. Here are examples of FREE parenting education webinars available on-line. If you do watch one of these, please e-mail of call Jane at 608-326-0223 to let her know what you thought about the presentation. Did you agree or disagree? Have more questions? Jane’s looking forward to hearing from you!
Active Parenting Webinars
Positive Parenting Solutions Webinars
