Parenting Skills

Updated on March 10, 2017

These free websites provide advice and tips to parents on improving their parenting skills. Kids do not come with an instruction manual. But there are research-proven methods for raising kids with good self-esteem, respect, empathy and kindness. You can learn these methods on these sites.

A Platform for Good

A Platform for Good provides kids and teens incentive-based, interactive activities that teach them about online safety issues in a fun, engaging way.  Parents have access to conversation starters and tips via text and social networking sites to encourage families…

Your Child Parenting Guides and Resources

From babies to teens, you’ll find information to help you with your kids’ social, emotional, physical, and mental health. Learn how to handle behavioral challenges. Check out developmental milestones. Make healthy choices for your kids and teach them how to…

Common Sense Media Advice for Parents

From site:  Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. We exist because media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional, and physical development of our nation’s children. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit…

How to Teach Your Kids About Money

Learn how you can help teach your kids key principles of money and finance. How to Teach Your Kids About Money is a series of 23 short videos providing advice to parents about how to help your kids learn how…

Kids Health for Parents

This award-winning site offers parents health facts and advice on physical, emotional and mental issues for children and teens. The information is written by physicians and health experts. And it is updated regularly to keep pace with research and treatment…

PBS Parenting Guide

Learn flexible strategies for communicating with kids and handling meltdowns.  Find tips and ideas by age group from babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to children and teens. Find out what to do when you’ve lost your cool. Hone your skills at…