Parenting

Summary

If you’re a parent, you get plenty of suggestions on how to raise your child. From experts to other parents, people are always ready to offer advice. Parenting tips, parents’ survival guides, dos, don’ts, shoulds and shouldn’ts – new ones come out daily.

The truth is there is more than one “right” way to be a good parent. Good parenting includes:

• Keeping your child safe
• Showing affection and listening to your child
• Providing order and consistency
• Setting and enforcing limits
• Spending time with your child
• Monitoring your child’s friendships and activities
• Leading by example

NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Specifics

• Adoption and Foster Care American Academy of Pediatrics
• Body Image in Children and Teens American Academy of Family Physicians
• Helping Your Child through Early Adolescence — Helping Your Child Series Department of Education
• Importance of Family Routines American Academy of Pediatrics
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Parenting a Child Who Has Been Sexually Abused: A Guide for Foster and Adoptive Parents Children’s Bureau
• Talking to Kids About Race and Racism Nemours Foundation
• Teaching Your Child Self-Control Nemours Foundation
• The Power of Peers: Who Influences Your Health? National Institutes of Health
• Your Child’s Self-Esteem Nemours Foundation

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Parenting National Institutes of Health

Related Issues

• Constantly Connected: How Media Use Can Affect Your Child American Academy of Pediatrics
• Delving Into Devices: Children and Screen Time National Institutes of Health
• Healthy Habits for TV, Video Games, and the Internet Nemours Foundation
• Shape Your Family’s Habits: Helping Kids Make Healthy Choices National Institutes of Health

Start Here

• Effective Parenting American Academy of Pediatrics
• Nine Steps to More Effective Parenting Nemours Foundation
• Positive Parenting: Building Healthy Relationships with Your Kids National Institutes of Health

Find an Expert

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• KidsHealth Nemours Foundation

NIH MedlinePlus Magazine

• Notes from the Field: What We Know About Screen Time So Far
• Tips for Setting Screen Time Limits
• What Is All that Screen Time Doing to Your Child’s Brain?

Teenagers

• Parenting Teens: Guiding Kids Through Turbulent Years National Institutes of Health
• Parenting Your Adopted Teenager Children’s Bureau
• Sex Education: Talking to Your Teen about Sex Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• Share Your Values American Academy of Pediatrics
• When To Let Your Teenager Start Dating American Academy of Pediatrics

Journal Articles

• Parenting

Patient Handouts

• Talk to Your Kids about Sex and Healthy Relationships Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Talk to Your Kids about Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Talking to your teen about drinking Medical Encyclopedia
• Time outs Medical Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

• Time out Medical Encyclopedia