For Parents & Caregivers

This document explores the different types of attachment, how they develop, and the impact of this bond on young children’s development.

Designed for parents and caretakers, this booket describes the power of learning in early childhood, suggests principles to teach children that promote violence prevention, and provides skills for anger management and problem solving.

This booklet offers strategies for parents and families to lessen the impact of violence and other kinds of trauma. Describes what to expect from children after a traumatic event occurs.

This tip sheet lists suggestions for parents who want to help create safer schools for children, originally from the Department of Education's 1998 publication, Early Warning, Timely Response.

This is a web-based toolkit about adolescent development.

This handout describes the impact of disasters on babies, young children, toddlers, and preschoolers, offering many useful tips for helping to promote healing and resiliency.

This book is an introduction to trans issues especially for parents. Contents include commonly asked questions, commonalities and differences between sexual orientation and gender identity, issues of transgendered youth, and transgender and the law.

Addresses the questions: What Is transgender? Can a Child Be Transgender? What Makes a Child Transgender? Why Canít My Child Be ""Normal""? How Should I Respond? How Can I know If Itís a Phase? Where Do I Get Help, Support, and More Information?"

This article provides tips for parents and caretakers on how to resist traditional gender norms and raise healthier, happier sons and daughters. Specifically, the focus is on strategies for raising respectful boys.

This series of articles suggests ways to shape positive masculinity in boys when they are surrounded by "rules" of boy life. "We should talk with boys about the reality of gender expectations, and help them brainstorm about how to negotiate this problem."

This document provides information on gender norms, sexuality, and ways to create environments that decrease restrictive gender norms and promote healthier sexual interactions. It also provides a list of resources.

How do you raise a powerful girl and what does that mean? This article provides ideas to help you raise powerful daughters.

Empathy books are great tools for helping children process big feelings and situations. In this video you will learn what they are and how to make them.

This document explores the different types of attachment, how they develop, and the impact of this bond on young children’s development.

Designed for parents of pre-teens, this booklet was developed as a tool to help parents lay the foundation for healthy decision-making patterns and relationships. Includes tips for "starting the dialogue," interactive quiz, and additional resources.

Highlights several training tools and background information for use in promoting men's involvement in the movement to end violence against women. Also included are educational materials to support the teaching of non-violence to boys and young men.

This article offers tips, strategies, and resources for talking with your child about dating, forming friendships, and treating one another with respect.

Report describes the healthy aspects of free and unstructured play, noting that it is essential for helping children reach important social, emotional, and cognitive developmental milestones as well as helping them manage stress and become resilient.

This booklet offers practical concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some tough issues: sex and relationships, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.

This fact sheet talks about respect and what the term means, providing examples of respectful and disrespectful behaviors. This fact sheet is intended for families and people who work with families

This fact sheet examines the extent and effect of media exposure on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, particularly in the form of television and computer games.

The Stand4Respect campaign is a joint effort of the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s prevention team and of the Coalition’s Youth Council because “we believe that we are most effective when youth and adults work together to develop cool and relevant prevention plans.”

This is a fact sheet that provides a scenario and discussion to promote a conversation between youth and caregivers around consent and respect.

This is a fact sheet that provides a scenario and discussion to promote a conversation between youth and caregivers around healthy sexual development.

This article discusses what many parents and caregivers are concerned about today when it comes to their children: how to reduce the risk of sexual violence and increase the likelihood that their children will disclose to them.

This resource provides a basic knowledge of the development of sexuality from infancy to adolescence. For each age group, an introductory discussion of key points related to child sexual development is provided.

This fact sheet provides basic information about sexual development and problematic sexual behavior in children ages 2-12.

"This newsletter provides useful information for parents and caregivers when teaching their children the difference between ""good"" and ""bad"" touch and how to set boundaries to their own bodies."

This guide discusses what may be age-appropriate or developmentally-expected sexual behavior. It also talks about some of the things that adults can do to help prevent sexually harmful behavior between children.

This handout teaches parents about their personal power and responsibility to protect children from sexual abuse.

"This newsletter provides useful information for parents and caregivers when teaching their children the difference between ""good"" and ""bad"" touch and how to set boundaries to their own bodies."

This toolkit provides resources to help adults promote safe and positive use of media for youth.

This article suggests seven ways to fight stereotypes often portrayed in the media.

This video takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood.

This report describes trends in the Internet habits of girls, their skills in navigating potentially difficult or emotional situations online, and advice on how parents and other adults can empower girls to have safe, positive online experiences.

A poster for parents to print out for their children to use as a mat/poster in front of the computer to remember the 5 SMART rules when using the internet and mobile phones.

This document offers tips to parents on how they can talk to their children about social networking sites and using these sites safely.