Parenting

Learn To Answer the Tough Questions — This brochure will helps parents to to teens about drinking. (PDF)

How to Tell if Your Child is Drinking Alcohol — Fact sheet on underage drinking. (PDF)

College Drinking — NIH fact sheet on affects of drinking on college students. (PDF)

Recognizing the Symptoms of Child Abuse And Neglect — This fact sheet was developed by the Child Welfare Gateway and should be given to anyone who works with children. It defines the various types of child abuse and neglect according to Federal guidelines, and can be helpful in detecting signs of abuse or neglect.

Parent-Teen Internet Safety Contract — This contract can be used with teens to set out the rules for Internet Safety. PDF

The Family Meeting Game — Parent's are asked to assemble this complete board game and use it to stimulate communication and positive problem solving with their families. It contains questions specific to the unique family problems caused by the corona pandemic. (0320)

Family Communication Dice Game — This dice game can be printed on heavy stock paper and then assembled. It is a fun game designed to enhance family communication. The blank die makes it easy to customize the game for many purposes. Type: PDF (1014)

Show Your Feelings Role Play Games — Get people talking about their feelings with three “cut and tape” dice games. These games are fun to play and a great way to encourage kids, teens, or even adults to talk about their feelings. PDF

Evaluating Medication For ADHD — This thorough report will help people compare every aspect of taking medication for ADHD, from effectiveness, to safety concerns, to cost. The report was prepared by a non-profit division of Consumer Reports called Consumer Reports Health . (PDF)

Kindness-Pass it On Poster — This poster is designed to help people remember the importance of daily acts of kindness. Form Type: PDF (0715)

Communicating with Your Children — This worksheet is designed to help parents think about how the communication style of their family when they were young. It encourages them to think about the words they use to communicate with their own children. (0221, parenting, communication)

Supporting Your Transgender or Nonbinary Teen — This worksheet is designed to help parents understand and support their teens who identify as transgender or nonbinary. (1120)

Positive Parenting Checklist — Parents are asked to check off 15 positive parenting behaviors for one-week trying to get a score over 75. (parenting, behavior, 1120)

Overcoming Codependency in Your Relationshp — This worksheet is designed to help people see if they are being codependent in their relationships. It gives them various ideas on how to be more independent and set appropriate boundaries. (1120, codependency, addiction, marriage and family therapy)

Preventing Your Teen From Running Away — This worksheet is designed to help parents prevent teens from running away. It gives them tips to communicate more effectively with their teens and resources to use if in fact a teen does run away. (parenting, behavioral problems, 1120)

Coping with Postpartum Anxiety and Depression — This worksheet is designed for new mothers to help them determine if they are suffering from postpartum anxiety or depression. The worksheet gives them specific ideas on how to deal with these problems, as well as a chart for mothers to keep track of their moods, how they handled their anxiety and/or depression, and what worked best for them. (parenting, postpartum, 1020)

Thinking About Becoming a Parent — This worksheet is designed to help couples consider the pros and cons of becoming a parent and open a dialog on this important subject. (parenting, couples, relationships, 1020)

Increasing Trust and Bonding in Your Blended Family — This worksheet is designed to give parents in a blended family activities to help them build trust and bonding. (divorce, blended family, couples counseling, family therapy, marriage counseling, 0920)

Reducing the Stress of Hybrid and Remote Learning — This worksheet is designed to help parents cope with the stress of educating their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. (0920)

Conducting Positive Family Meetings (During the Pandemic) — This worksheet is designed to help families develop positive communication and problem solving skills. (corona virus, conflict resolution, pandemic, family therapy, 0320)

Being a Good Enough Parent — This worksheet is designed to help parents see that they don’t have to be perfect, but rather “good enough.” The worksheet defines the attributes of a “good enough parent,” and asks readers to reflect on their own experiences. (parenting, 0319)

Creating a Family Contract — This worksheet is designed to help a person in your family with problems by using a family contract. Creating a family contract will help you addresses your role in your loved one’s struggles, identify the family members specific problems and behaviors, and determine the best strategies for providing useful assistance. A family contract is designed to help a family be proactive in supporting a family member, while still not impeding the person’s sense of self-reliance and self-worth. (1118)

Compassionate Reframing — This worksheet is designed to help people reframe their self-criticism and develop a more compassionate attitude towards themselves. People are asked to think about the critical words they use to describe themselves and to substitute their put-downs with more compassionate thoughts. (self-esteem, self-talk, self-image, 1018)

Child Custody Handoff Checklist — Handoffs—delivering the child from one parent to another—can be particularly difficult until a routine is established. This worksheet is designed to help parents establish a routine with a minimal amount of discussion until such time both parents feel they can put aside their differences and easily discuss the needs of their child without blaming or recrimination. (divorce, relationships, parenting, 0718)

Activities That Help Counteract Your Stress — This worksheet is designed to help people identify daily activities which can help reduce the effects of chronic stress (anxiety, wellness, prevention, 0817)

Building Your Support System — This worksheet is designed to help people think about the people in their support system and the kinds of support they might be missing. PDF (0116)

Looking At the Timeline of Your Life — This worksheet suggests five activities that can help people get a “bird’s-eye view” of their lives as they note events and milestones at different ages. Suggestions for the worksheet include: listing positive events at different stage of life, listing influential people at different stages of life, anticipating future milestones and more. PDF (1015)

Take A Break — This worksheet encourages people to take a day off from their stress and dedicate that one day to relaxing. Form Type: PDF (Quick, Solution Focused)

Do Something Different — This simple behavior assignment can help people who feel they are stuck in unhealthy patterns. Form Type: PDF (0815, quick assignment)

Understanding Your Emotions When You Are Upset — This worksheet is designed to help people understand their emotions when they are upset and learn positive coping techniques to handle difficult emotions. Form Type: PDF (0715)

Asking for What You Want & Need — This worksheet is designed to help people think about how assertive they are when they ask for something. Form Type: PDF (DBT, 0615)

Understanding the Messages You Received As A Child — This worksheet is designed to help people examine the explicit and implicit messages they received as children and how these messages affect their self-image and self-efficacy. Type: PDF (0415)

Think Before You Act — This form can be used to give people a visual reminder to stop and think before they act. This is particularly helpful for kids and teens, but is a useful technique for adults too. Form Type: PDF (0315)

How Do You Deal With Conflicts? — This short questionnaire gives clients the opportunity to identify their behaviors and attitudes as assertive, aggressive, passive, or passive-aggressive, and provides some information about conflict strategies. File Type: PDF

Identifying Emotional Abuse — This worksheet is designed to help people identify emotional abuse in their own behavior or the behavior of others. PDF

How to Take a Time Out When Arguing — This worksheet is designed to help people know when arguing is unproductive and they need to take a time-out.

Rules In Your Home — This worksheet is designed to help teens understand and respect rules in their home. PDF