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Parents & Faith Formation
Sticky Faith Research: www.StickyFaith.org
The Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) has conducted the College Transition Project, a national longitudinal study following over 500 high school seniors during their first three years in college. The goals of this research are to understand the dynamics of youth group graduates’ transition to college and to identify the relationships and best practices in youth ministries, churches, and families that can help set students on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service. FYI’s research confirms that it’s never too early or too late to start developing faith that continues to grow and lasts. Sticky Faith gives parents and leaders both a theological/philosophical framework and a host of practical relationship and programming ideas that develop long-term faith in teenagers.
Articles
Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas To Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids
What Makes Faith Stick During College?
Silence is Not GoldenThe Why and How of Sticky Faith Conversations at Home
The Church Sticking TogetherThe Vital Role of Intergenerational Relationships in Fostering Sticky FaithBY
Books
Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids- Kara Powell and Chap Clark (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011)
Fuller Youth Institute Executive Director Dr. Kara E. Powell and youth expert Chap Clark use research from the Fuller Youth Institute's "College Transition Project" to empower parents with positive and practical ideas to nurture within their kids a living, loving faith that lasts a lifetime. Sticky Faith delivers. Research shows that almost half of graduating high school seniors struggle deeply with their faith. Recognizing the ramifications of that statistic, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the "College Transition Project" in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service. Based on FYI findings, this easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children's spiritual growth so that it will stick to them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith.
Sticky Faith - Youth Worker Edition: Practical Ideas to Nurture Long-Term Faith in Teenagers - Kara Powell, Brad Griffin, & Cheryl Crawford (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011)
Recent studies show that 40-50 percent of kids who are connected to a youth group throughout their senior year will fail to stick with their faith in college. As youth workers are pouring their time and energy into the students in their ministries, they are often left wondering if they've done enough to equip their students to carry their faith into adulthood. Fuller Youth Institute has done extensive research in the area of youth ministry and teenage development. In Sticky Faith, the team at FYI presents youth workers with both a theological/philosophical framework and practical programming ideas that develop long-term faith in teenagers. Each chapter presents a summary of FYI's quantitative and qualitative research, along with the implications of this research, including program ideas suggested and tested by youth ministries nationwide. This resource will give youth pastors what they need to help foster a faith that sticks with all the teenagers in their group long after they've left the youth room.
The Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) has conducted the College Transition Project, a national longitudinal study following over 500 high school seniors during their first three years in college. The goals of this research are to understand the dynamics of youth group graduates’ transition to college and to identify the relationships and best practices in youth ministries, churches, and families that can help set students on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service. FYI’s research confirms that it’s never too early or too late to start developing faith that continues to grow and lasts. Sticky Faith gives parents and leaders both a theological/philosophical framework and a host of practical relationship and programming ideas that develop long-term faith in teenagers.
Articles
Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas To Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids
What Makes Faith Stick During College?
Silence is Not GoldenThe Why and How of Sticky Faith Conversations at Home
The Church Sticking TogetherThe Vital Role of Intergenerational Relationships in Fostering Sticky FaithBY
Books
Sticky Faith: Everyday Ideas to Build Lasting Faith in Your Kids- Kara Powell and Chap Clark (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011)
Fuller Youth Institute Executive Director Dr. Kara E. Powell and youth expert Chap Clark use research from the Fuller Youth Institute's "College Transition Project" to empower parents with positive and practical ideas to nurture within their kids a living, loving faith that lasts a lifetime. Sticky Faith delivers. Research shows that almost half of graduating high school seniors struggle deeply with their faith. Recognizing the ramifications of that statistic, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the "College Transition Project" in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service. Based on FYI findings, this easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children's spiritual growth so that it will stick to them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith.
Sticky Faith - Youth Worker Edition: Practical Ideas to Nurture Long-Term Faith in Teenagers - Kara Powell, Brad Griffin, & Cheryl Crawford (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011)
Recent studies show that 40-50 percent of kids who are connected to a youth group throughout their senior year will fail to stick with their faith in college. As youth workers are pouring their time and energy into the students in their ministries, they are often left wondering if they've done enough to equip their students to carry their faith into adulthood. Fuller Youth Institute has done extensive research in the area of youth ministry and teenage development. In Sticky Faith, the team at FYI presents youth workers with both a theological/philosophical framework and practical programming ideas that develop long-term faith in teenagers. Each chapter presents a summary of FYI's quantitative and qualitative research, along with the implications of this research, including program ideas suggested and tested by youth ministries nationwide. This resource will give youth pastors what they need to help foster a faith that sticks with all the teenagers in their group long after they've left the youth room.
Adopted into the Family: Toward a Theology of Parenting - David H. Jensen
Journal of Childhood and Religion, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2010 (www.childhoodandreligion.com/JCR)What does it mean to be a parent? How is parenting related to Christian faith? David Jensen presents an essay that seeks to address these questions. He writes "Parenting is neither a requirement nor an expectation for the Christian life. But parenting is a gift of that life: a gift made possible because of the gift of God’s own Son to us, a gift thatmakes us heirs to the covenant by adoption. All who parent care for adoptive children because children are given to parents. Parents offer hospitality to children for a time so that they, in turn, might provide hospitality to others. Children belong not first and foremost to parents, but to God. Children come to parents as surprises, even anticipated surprises, and teach parents part of what it means to be giving people. And, because children rarely stay the length of their lives under a parent’s roof, they, too, might even become adoptive parents themselves when the time comes.
And a LIttle Child Shall Lead Them: The Advent and Event of Parenting as a Spiritual Journey - Dawn Allitz
Lifelong Faith Journal, Volume 5.3, Fall 2011 (www.LifelongFaith.com)
Today we realize that parents have a clear role in nurturing the spiritual life of their children, but as ministry leaders we are often unsure how to nurture and guide the parents in this role. In order to learn how best to lead, Dawn Allitz conducted a research study that listened deeply to men and women who have recently encountered this phase of life to see what spiritual or theological questions or experiences they might be facing, how they were making meaning out of these experiences, and where they turned to find answers. Each parent in her research had been transformed in some way by becoming a parent - some of the transformations were personal, others were relational; some spoke of the transformation in the past tense, while others spoke of a change that was in process.
Building Caring Communities to Support Families - Barbara A. Brahm and Chester J. Bowling
The Ohio State University ExtensionFamilies need supportive communities to provide social ties, enhance health, teach values, and develop assets in children and youth. When living in a supportive community, a family can grow to its full potential and provide the best environment for children to grow into healthy, caring adults. And the act of bonding together in a community not only makes our physical and economic life possible in today’s world, it gives us the social interaction we need to produce optimum physical and mental health. This article summarizes key findings on the importance of caring communities for family life.
Equipping Parents to Be Spiritual Champions in Their Homes - Pat Springle
Leadership Network (www.Leadnet.org)
Leadership Network hosted an Innovation Lab for Family Ministries for visionary pastoral staff from around the United States. These leaders aren’t content to let the surrounding culture dictate the roles of parents and church ministries. They have developed a clear strategy and effective practices to equip parents to fulfill their roles of spiritual leaders. This article reports on what several churches are doing.
Exploring the Links between Family Strengths and Adolescent Outcomes - Kristin Moore, Camille Whitney, and Akemi Kinukawa
Children Trends Research Brief, April 2009 (www.childtrends.org)
Families are critical to the positive development of children and youth, as well as to problems that may affect that development. Thus, it is important to examine not just the deficits, but also the assets and strengths that families of all income levels bring to raising children. This Research Brief reports on findings that indicate that family strengths are associated with significantly better outcomes for adolescents in both lower-income families and higher-income families. Specifically, we found that adolescents from families that have these strengths are more likely to perform well in school, to avoid risky behaviors, and to demonstrate positive social behaviors than are adolescents from families that lack these strengths.
New Digital American Family (April 2011) - Doug Anderson and Radha Subramanyam
The Nielsen Company (www.nielsen.com)
The New Digital American Family is getting older, smaller, growing more slowly and becoming more ethnically diverse than at any point in history. Diversity in all its dimensions defines the emerging American Family archetype, with no single cultural, social, demographic, economic or political point of view dominating the landscape. This article reports on research by The Nielsen Company on today's digital family.
Parenting and the Socialization of Religiousness and Spirituality - Sam A. Hardy, Jennifer White, Joshua Ruchty, and Zhiyong Zhang
(Source: http://nd.psychstat.org/_media/research/hardy_et_al._2010.pdf
This study examined parenting style dimensions as moderators of relations between family religiousness and individual religiousness and spirituality. Participants rated the frequency with which they engaged in various religious activities with their families when they were younger, the frequency with which they personally do those behaviors currently, their current spirituality, and the parenting styles used by their parents when they were younger. Family religiousness positively predicted individual religiousness and spirituality. Rejection and autonomy-support moderated the association between family religiousness and individual religiousness, while warmth, rejection, structure, chaos, and autonomy-support moderated the relationship between family religiousness and individual spirituality. Thus, religious beliefs and practices, at whatever level, may be more readily appropriated by the next generation in families characterized by authoritative parenting
Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion - Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zen
June 2011, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
(Source: http://ftp.iza.org/dp5787.pdf)
This study analyzes the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality and parental effort are of importance for the religious behavior of the children. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher the fraction of religious peers, the more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents, we obtain the reverse, indicating cultural substitutability. Concerning the success in transmitting the religious trait, we find that, for religious parents, the fraction of religious peers has only an indirect effect (through parental effort) while, for non-religious parents, there is a lower indirect effect and a statistically significant and sizeable direct effect of peers on the transmission of the nonreligious trait.
Sparks - How Igniting Our Teenager’s Sparks Can Support and Save Our Children and Their Future - Peter Benson
Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers (Jossey-Bass, 2008)
This introductory chapter from Sparks by Peter Benson provides an overview of the research that the Search Institute has done on thriving in childhood and adolescents by identifying the Sparks that enable a person to thrive in a changing world.
The State of the Church & Family Report 2010
The Family & Technology Report 2010
Barna Group (www.barna.org )
Orange - a division of reThink Group (http://www.orangeparents.org)
Why aren’t more families engaged in congregations? Find out more about the parenting environment and parents’ expectations of churches. The State of the Church and Family Report is designed for ministry planning and strategy to reach today’s families, content for sermons, and evaluation of family and youth programs. It is a roadmap for retooling your efforts with today’s families. Learn 19 different factors that are affecting the role of congregations in parents’ lives: What kinds of churches do parents prefer? Does having children stimulate parental involvement in church? What do parents expect out of churches? Parenting peers: how do parents find support from others? Are parents intentional about their parenting goals? Where do parents turn in times of crisis? Do parents prioritize intergenerational relationships?
The Family & Technology Report from Barna Group and Orange gives you the tools to do that. The innovative study included interviews among parents, tweens and teens from the same households. The report addresses questions such as: How can churches assist families in the digital age? Has technology had a positive or negative influence on families? How is technology shaping family time? How many parents are “tech addicts?” What conflicts are families having about technology? Do families take “sabbaths” from technology? Do parents place limits on the family’s use of technology? And much more!
Talking About Religion: How Highly Religious Youth and Parents Discuss Their Faith - David C. Dollahite and Jennifer Y. Thatcher
Journal of Adolescent Research 2008; 23; 611 (http://jar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/5/611)
This study builds on previous research regarding parent-child religious conversations to explore the transactional processes of these conversations. It employs qualitative analyses of interviews with highly religious parents and adolescents representing the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) from New England and Northern California. Variations in conversational processes are summarized in a conceptual model. Findings suggest that when parent-adolescent religious conversations are youth centered, the emotional experience is more positive for parents and adolescents than when they are parent centered. Parents from both traditional and progressive faith communities reported that they understood the value of transactional conversation processes over a more hierarchical, preachy, or parent-centered approach.
What Makes a Good Parent - A Scientific Analysis Ranks the 10 Most Effective Child-Rearing Practices - Robert Epstein
Scientific American Mind, November/December 2010 (www. www.ScientificAmerican.com/Mind)
A growing body of research conducted over the past 50 years shows fairly clearly that some parenting practices produce better outcomes than others—that is, better relationships between parent and child and happier, healthier, better functioning children. And just as we use medical science cautiously and strategically to make everyday health decisions, we can also make wise use of research to become better parents. This study compared the effectiveness of 10 kinds of parenting practices that have gotten the thumbs-up in various scientific studies. It also showed how parenting experts rate those practices and looked at just how many parents actually use those practices. The study compared three things: what experts advise, what really seems to work, and what parents actually do. The study confirmed some widely held beliefs about parenting - for example, that parents showing their kids that they love them is essential - and it also yielded some surprises, especially regarding the importance of a parent’s ability to manage stress in his or her own life.
Journal of Childhood and Religion, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2010 (www.childhoodandreligion.com/JCR)What does it mean to be a parent? How is parenting related to Christian faith? David Jensen presents an essay that seeks to address these questions. He writes "Parenting is neither a requirement nor an expectation for the Christian life. But parenting is a gift of that life: a gift made possible because of the gift of God’s own Son to us, a gift thatmakes us heirs to the covenant by adoption. All who parent care for adoptive children because children are given to parents. Parents offer hospitality to children for a time so that they, in turn, might provide hospitality to others. Children belong not first and foremost to parents, but to God. Children come to parents as surprises, even anticipated surprises, and teach parents part of what it means to be giving people. And, because children rarely stay the length of their lives under a parent’s roof, they, too, might even become adoptive parents themselves when the time comes.
And a LIttle Child Shall Lead Them: The Advent and Event of Parenting as a Spiritual Journey - Dawn Allitz
Lifelong Faith Journal, Volume 5.3, Fall 2011 (www.LifelongFaith.com)
Today we realize that parents have a clear role in nurturing the spiritual life of their children, but as ministry leaders we are often unsure how to nurture and guide the parents in this role. In order to learn how best to lead, Dawn Allitz conducted a research study that listened deeply to men and women who have recently encountered this phase of life to see what spiritual or theological questions or experiences they might be facing, how they were making meaning out of these experiences, and where they turned to find answers. Each parent in her research had been transformed in some way by becoming a parent - some of the transformations were personal, others were relational; some spoke of the transformation in the past tense, while others spoke of a change that was in process.
Building Caring Communities to Support Families - Barbara A. Brahm and Chester J. Bowling
The Ohio State University ExtensionFamilies need supportive communities to provide social ties, enhance health, teach values, and develop assets in children and youth. When living in a supportive community, a family can grow to its full potential and provide the best environment for children to grow into healthy, caring adults. And the act of bonding together in a community not only makes our physical and economic life possible in today’s world, it gives us the social interaction we need to produce optimum physical and mental health. This article summarizes key findings on the importance of caring communities for family life.
Equipping Parents to Be Spiritual Champions in Their Homes - Pat Springle
Leadership Network (www.Leadnet.org)
Leadership Network hosted an Innovation Lab for Family Ministries for visionary pastoral staff from around the United States. These leaders aren’t content to let the surrounding culture dictate the roles of parents and church ministries. They have developed a clear strategy and effective practices to equip parents to fulfill their roles of spiritual leaders. This article reports on what several churches are doing.
Exploring the Links between Family Strengths and Adolescent Outcomes - Kristin Moore, Camille Whitney, and Akemi Kinukawa
Children Trends Research Brief, April 2009 (www.childtrends.org)
Families are critical to the positive development of children and youth, as well as to problems that may affect that development. Thus, it is important to examine not just the deficits, but also the assets and strengths that families of all income levels bring to raising children. This Research Brief reports on findings that indicate that family strengths are associated with significantly better outcomes for adolescents in both lower-income families and higher-income families. Specifically, we found that adolescents from families that have these strengths are more likely to perform well in school, to avoid risky behaviors, and to demonstrate positive social behaviors than are adolescents from families that lack these strengths.
New Digital American Family (April 2011) - Doug Anderson and Radha Subramanyam
The Nielsen Company (www.nielsen.com)
The New Digital American Family is getting older, smaller, growing more slowly and becoming more ethnically diverse than at any point in history. Diversity in all its dimensions defines the emerging American Family archetype, with no single cultural, social, demographic, economic or political point of view dominating the landscape. This article reports on research by The Nielsen Company on today's digital family.
Parenting and the Socialization of Religiousness and Spirituality - Sam A. Hardy, Jennifer White, Joshua Ruchty, and Zhiyong Zhang
(Source: http://nd.psychstat.org/_media/research/hardy_et_al._2010.pdf
This study examined parenting style dimensions as moderators of relations between family religiousness and individual religiousness and spirituality. Participants rated the frequency with which they engaged in various religious activities with their families when they were younger, the frequency with which they personally do those behaviors currently, their current spirituality, and the parenting styles used by their parents when they were younger. Family religiousness positively predicted individual religiousness and spirituality. Rejection and autonomy-support moderated the association between family religiousness and individual religiousness, while warmth, rejection, structure, chaos, and autonomy-support moderated the relationship between family religiousness and individual spirituality. Thus, religious beliefs and practices, at whatever level, may be more readily appropriated by the next generation in families characterized by authoritative parenting
Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion - Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zen
June 2011, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
(Source: http://ftp.iza.org/dp5787.pdf)
This study analyzes the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality and parental effort are of importance for the religious behavior of the children. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher the fraction of religious peers, the more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents, we obtain the reverse, indicating cultural substitutability. Concerning the success in transmitting the religious trait, we find that, for religious parents, the fraction of religious peers has only an indirect effect (through parental effort) while, for non-religious parents, there is a lower indirect effect and a statistically significant and sizeable direct effect of peers on the transmission of the nonreligious trait.
Sparks - How Igniting Our Teenager’s Sparks Can Support and Save Our Children and Their Future - Peter Benson
Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers (Jossey-Bass, 2008)
This introductory chapter from Sparks by Peter Benson provides an overview of the research that the Search Institute has done on thriving in childhood and adolescents by identifying the Sparks that enable a person to thrive in a changing world.
- Read a Search Institute summary of the research in Thriving.
- Read about the research on Thriving: www.search-institute.org/thriving
- Watch the Sparks video presentation by Peter Benson at: www.search-institute.org/sparks
The State of the Church & Family Report 2010
The Family & Technology Report 2010
Barna Group (www.barna.org )
Orange - a division of reThink Group (http://www.orangeparents.org)
Why aren’t more families engaged in congregations? Find out more about the parenting environment and parents’ expectations of churches. The State of the Church and Family Report is designed for ministry planning and strategy to reach today’s families, content for sermons, and evaluation of family and youth programs. It is a roadmap for retooling your efforts with today’s families. Learn 19 different factors that are affecting the role of congregations in parents’ lives: What kinds of churches do parents prefer? Does having children stimulate parental involvement in church? What do parents expect out of churches? Parenting peers: how do parents find support from others? Are parents intentional about their parenting goals? Where do parents turn in times of crisis? Do parents prioritize intergenerational relationships?
The Family & Technology Report from Barna Group and Orange gives you the tools to do that. The innovative study included interviews among parents, tweens and teens from the same households. The report addresses questions such as: How can churches assist families in the digital age? Has technology had a positive or negative influence on families? How is technology shaping family time? How many parents are “tech addicts?” What conflicts are families having about technology? Do families take “sabbaths” from technology? Do parents place limits on the family’s use of technology? And much more!
Talking About Religion: How Highly Religious Youth and Parents Discuss Their Faith - David C. Dollahite and Jennifer Y. Thatcher
Journal of Adolescent Research 2008; 23; 611 (http://jar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/5/611)
This study builds on previous research regarding parent-child religious conversations to explore the transactional processes of these conversations. It employs qualitative analyses of interviews with highly religious parents and adolescents representing the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) from New England and Northern California. Variations in conversational processes are summarized in a conceptual model. Findings suggest that when parent-adolescent religious conversations are youth centered, the emotional experience is more positive for parents and adolescents than when they are parent centered. Parents from both traditional and progressive faith communities reported that they understood the value of transactional conversation processes over a more hierarchical, preachy, or parent-centered approach.
What Makes a Good Parent - A Scientific Analysis Ranks the 10 Most Effective Child-Rearing Practices - Robert Epstein
Scientific American Mind, November/December 2010 (www. www.ScientificAmerican.com/Mind)
A growing body of research conducted over the past 50 years shows fairly clearly that some parenting practices produce better outcomes than others—that is, better relationships between parent and child and happier, healthier, better functioning children. And just as we use medical science cautiously and strategically to make everyday health decisions, we can also make wise use of research to become better parents. This study compared the effectiveness of 10 kinds of parenting practices that have gotten the thumbs-up in various scientific studies. It also showed how parenting experts rate those practices and looked at just how many parents actually use those practices. The study compared three things: what experts advise, what really seems to work, and what parents actually do. The study confirmed some widely held beliefs about parenting - for example, that parents showing their kids that they love them is essential - and it also yielded some surprises, especially regarding the importance of a parent’s ability to manage stress in his or her own life.
Websites
Boys Town: www.Parenting.org
Parenting.org provides valuable resources, articles and tips offering parenting help in today’s world. It includes free resources, articles and stories from the experts at Boys Town. Ask parenting questions online and search by age or topic.
Catholic Mom: www.catholicmom.com
CatholicMom.com celebrates all things faith, family, and fun from a Catholic perspective with columnists and contributors, a book club, music from an array of talented Catholic musicians, Sunday Gospel activities for children, and a weekly Catholic Moments Podcast with interviews of special people doing extraordinary things to live out our Catholic faith and share it with others.
Center for Parent-Youth Understanding: www.cpyu.org
The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers. CPYU helps parents, youth workers, educators, and others understand teenagers and their culture so that they will be better equipped to help children and teens navigate the challenging world of adolescence.
HomeWord by Jim Burns: www.HomeWord.com
HomeWord seeks to advance the work of God in the world by educating, equipping, and encouraging parents and churches to build God-honoring families from generation to generation.
Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS): www.mops.org
MOPS International exists to encourage, equip and develop every mother of preschoolers to realize her potential as a woman, mother and leader in the name of Jesus Christ. MOPS is about meeting the needs of every mom of a child from conception through kindergarten.
National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: www.zerotothree.org
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. Our mission is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers.
Orange Parents (Blog): www.orangeparents.org
Orange Parents seeks to connect families to a wider community of parents and leaders, and expand parents’ ideas, skills, and influence.
Parent Further (Search Institute): www.ParentFurther.com
ParentFurther provides practical, everyday parenting tips and helpful advice for difficult situations. ParentFurther helps parents teach their kids positive values; set clear boundaries and enforce reasonable consequences; find the support and knowledge they need to help their kids grow up successfully; and focus on the things that matter most to their family.
PBS Parents: www.pbs.org/parents
PBS Parents is a trusted resource that’s filled with information on child development and early learning. It also serves as a parent’s window to the world of PBS KIDS, offering access to educational games and activities inspired by PBS KIDS programs. Created with input from experts in child psychology, early childhood education, media and other fields, PBS Parents provides the answers parents to be their child’s first, best teacher.
Sticky Faith Parents (Fuller Youth Institute): http://stickyfaith.org/parents
Sticky Faith Parents is designed for parents of kids of any age who are concerned about how faith is shaping their children’s life and what will happen to their faith when they leave home. Through research-based insights and stories from other parents, parents can use the ideas today and in the years to come to help build Sticky Faith in their kids.
Tumblon: http://tumblon.com
Tumblon helps parents understand, nurture, and remember their children’s development. It does this by bringing together relevant and trustworthy content, secure blogging and photo sharing, and specific, interactive developmental information. Tumblon helps parents understand and nurture their children’s growth, by informing and inspiring them to engage in the joys of parenting.
Boys Town: www.Parenting.org
Parenting.org provides valuable resources, articles and tips offering parenting help in today’s world. It includes free resources, articles and stories from the experts at Boys Town. Ask parenting questions online and search by age or topic.
Catholic Mom: www.catholicmom.com
CatholicMom.com celebrates all things faith, family, and fun from a Catholic perspective with columnists and contributors, a book club, music from an array of talented Catholic musicians, Sunday Gospel activities for children, and a weekly Catholic Moments Podcast with interviews of special people doing extraordinary things to live out our Catholic faith and share it with others.
Center for Parent-Youth Understanding: www.cpyu.org
The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers. CPYU helps parents, youth workers, educators, and others understand teenagers and their culture so that they will be better equipped to help children and teens navigate the challenging world of adolescence.
HomeWord by Jim Burns: www.HomeWord.com
HomeWord seeks to advance the work of God in the world by educating, equipping, and encouraging parents and churches to build God-honoring families from generation to generation.
Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS): www.mops.org
MOPS International exists to encourage, equip and develop every mother of preschoolers to realize her potential as a woman, mother and leader in the name of Jesus Christ. MOPS is about meeting the needs of every mom of a child from conception through kindergarten.
National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: www.zerotothree.org
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. Our mission is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers.
Orange Parents (Blog): www.orangeparents.org
Orange Parents seeks to connect families to a wider community of parents and leaders, and expand parents’ ideas, skills, and influence.
Parent Further (Search Institute): www.ParentFurther.com
ParentFurther provides practical, everyday parenting tips and helpful advice for difficult situations. ParentFurther helps parents teach their kids positive values; set clear boundaries and enforce reasonable consequences; find the support and knowledge they need to help their kids grow up successfully; and focus on the things that matter most to their family.
PBS Parents: www.pbs.org/parents
PBS Parents is a trusted resource that’s filled with information on child development and early learning. It also serves as a parent’s window to the world of PBS KIDS, offering access to educational games and activities inspired by PBS KIDS programs. Created with input from experts in child psychology, early childhood education, media and other fields, PBS Parents provides the answers parents to be their child’s first, best teacher.
Sticky Faith Parents (Fuller Youth Institute): http://stickyfaith.org/parents
Sticky Faith Parents is designed for parents of kids of any age who are concerned about how faith is shaping their children’s life and what will happen to their faith when they leave home. Through research-based insights and stories from other parents, parents can use the ideas today and in the years to come to help build Sticky Faith in their kids.
Tumblon: http://tumblon.com
Tumblon helps parents understand, nurture, and remember their children’s development. It does this by bringing together relevant and trustworthy content, secure blogging and photo sharing, and specific, interactive developmental information. Tumblon helps parents understand and nurture their children’s growth, by informing and inspiring them to engage in the joys of parenting.
