Parenting Tips

Parenting Tips for Raising Children
This collection of tips collected or written by Andrew Mullins at Redfield College in Sydney AU. They are created for the parents of the students attending Redfield College , but are distributed widely for parents everywhere. You have permission to pass these along to others.

•          Alleviating anxiety in younger children
•          Aggression in children and youth
•          Binge Drinking
•          Body Image
•          Cell phones and your children
•          Children need to learn more about serving others and less about shopping
•          Children and the media: A guide for parents and careers
•          Common mistakes we make in disciplining our children
•          Dealing with lying
•          Developing good habits of mind (virtues)
•          Adolescent Development Tips
•          Does birth order make any difference?
•          A little more on birth order
•          Eating Disorders
•          Effective writing and speaking skills
•          Helping our children make good career choices
•          A little more on career choices
•          Getting kids off of the couch
•          Grandparenting
•          Helping your child with high-stakes testing (HSC test in New South Wales, AU)
•          How high should my expectations be?
•          How our own experiences as children affect our parenting practices
•          How sports develop character
•          How to communicate with teens
•          How to deal with tragic world or local events
•          How to have good father-son communication
•          How to really love your teenager
•          Keeping children drug free
•          Leadership skills for our children
•          Listening to teenagers
•          Lunchbox Lessons
•          Media and our children
•          Media violence: short- and long-term effects
•          Mental health and growing up
•          Mind over media: A summary of parental suggestions
•          Money projects and our children
•          Mothers and daughters fighting
•          Motivation
•          Parents and their adolescent children
•          Raising Adolescents part 1
•          Raising Adolescents part 2
•          Raising children for character
•          Saying Well Done
•          School Snacks
•          Secrets of family life
•          Short and long term effects of violence in the media
•          Shyness: ages 6-12
•          Social and Emotional Characteristics and Needs of the Gifted Learner
•          Successful fathers: 10 common sense rules
•          Standing up for your beliefs 
•          Talking to our kids about anything
•          Taming the TV monster in your home
•          Tell stories to your children: 10 good reasons
•          Teaching our children to use money appropriately
•          Teaching our children the habit of charity
•          The essential virtues for our children to learn
•          The importance of learning to be a critical thinker
•          The importance of order in our children's lives and behaviors
•          The need for fathers to be calm
•          The ten commandments for parents
•          Thinking Skills
•          Understanding depression
•          Winners, Losers, and Cheating
•           Raising Resilient Boys