This booklet provides the information and expert advice you need to help guide your teen to a healthy life. From setting expectations and rules to monitoring your teen, to being a good role model, the advice is simple and easy to do, with suggestions for actions to take daily, weekly or monthly. Whether you are a mom or dad, single or married, grandparent or other caregiver, this handbook provides tips and advice that you can use. To learn even more, go to: http://www.theantidrug.com/

When parents talk to and affirm the value of their children, young people are more likely to develop positive, healthy attitudes about themselves. This is also true when the subject is sex. Research shows that positive communication between parents and their children can help young people establish individual values and make healthy decisions. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/parents/index.htm

Parents and caregivers such as grandparents and other trusted adults play an integral role in the healthy sexual development of teens.  If you are raising a teen, it is inevitable that you will be in a situation where you will need to talk about sex with your child.  While these conversations can be equally uncomfortable for parent and teen, this page will list several reliable and comprehensive resources that will help you start this very important conversation.
http://www.coappp.org/resources/parents.htm


Raising a child is probably the most gratifying job any of us will ever have -- and one of the toughest. We live in an increasingly complex world that challenges us every day with a wide range of disturbing issues that are difficult for children to understand and for adults to explain. This Web site can help by offering practical, concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some very tough issues: sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol. http://www.talkingwithkids.org/local.html