Build Your Parenting Skills

• Blank Children's Hospital
   
• Child Abuse and Neglect (C.A.N.) Prevention Council
   
• Grubb YMCA Fatherhood Progam
   
• House of Mercy
   
• Lutheran Services in Iowa

• Mid-Iowa Family Therapy Clinic
   
• Mosaic Famliy Counseling Center
   
• Parenting Way
   
• Effective Black Parenting Classes (open to anyone parenting an African American child)
   
• Iowa Foster & Adoptive Parents Association (for foster/kinship/adoptive parents)

• Love and Logic Parenting

• What's Your Parenting Style?

• Effective Parenting

• 9 Steps to More Effective Parenting

• Disciplining Your Child

• How Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring, & Modeling Can Help You be a Successful Parent

• Parenting Resources & Articles

• Guide to Parenting Resources

• Blank Children's Hospital
   
• Visiting Nurse Services
   
• Young Women's Resource Center
   
• Zero To Three

• Child Developmental Milestones
   
• "Your Growing Child" Book
   
• The ABC's Of Child Development
   
• Your Growing Baby
   
• Stages of Adolescence
   
• Teenage Developmental Milestones

Help Your Children Succeed In School

• Children and Families Urban Movement (CFUM)
   
• Des Moines Area Community College
   
• Des Moines Public Schools
   
• Education Brain Trust
   
• Oakridge Neighborhood
   
• Orchard Place
   
• United Way of Central Iowa
   
• Youth Emergency Services & Shelter (YESS)

• Helping Your Child With Homework
   
• Homework & Study Skills Checklist
   
• Supporting Your Learner
   
• Be Your Child's Advocate

Look for Special Needs Resources

• Lutheran Services of Iowa (LSI)
   
• Optimae Life Services
   
• Orchard Place

• Special Education in Iowa
   
• Developmental Disabilities
   
• What are Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities?
   
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

Praise Your Children for Good Behaviors

• See "Build Your Parenting Skills" Section Above

• The Right Way to Praise Your Kids
   
• Strategies for Increasing Positive Behaviors
   
• Catching Kids Being Good
   
• To Prevent Aggressive Behavior, Catch Children Being Good!
   

Encourage Your Children to Learn, Explore and Try New Things

• AMP (for foster/adoptive children)
   
• Children & Families of Iowa
   
• Children and Families Urban Movement (CFUM)
   
• City of Des Moines
   
• Creative Visions
   
• Des Moines Area Community College
   
• Des Moines Police Department
   
• Des Moines Public Schools
   
• Drake University
   
• John Grubb YMCA
   
• Oakridge Neighborhood
   
• Polk County Conservation
• YMCA of Greater Des Moines

• 10 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Learn
   
• How Children Explore Their World: Age by Age
   
• How to Encourage Your Child to Try New Activities
   
• Encourage Learning in Children