Info
RxNurturing Parenting
Parenting can be challenging for many people. Below is a list of resources that can help you to develop nurturing parenting skills and family skills to support you in raising your children. These resources cover a variety of experiences all parents/caregivers face and provides guidance on how to support your children through all of their different stages of growth.
Web Content
Information from Alberta
-
Healthy Parents, Healthy Children
Part of the My.Health Alberta network this website offers families information about healthy pregnancy and the first five years of a child's life. This made-in-Alberta information will give you suggestions for everyday care and activities. It will take you from the early stages of looking after your new baby, through to the thrill of first steps and words, all the way to the first days of school. You can also access the free e-books:
-
Alberta Health Services - Parents
This page has links for parents in Alberta that will take you to important information about childhood immunizations, safety, everyday care, parenting, growth and development, and common health concerns.
-
Alberta Health Services - Parent Information Series
The Parent Information Series is designed to answer frequently asked questions and provides factual information that may help you prevent your children from using drugs, help them make healthy lifestyle choices and support them in making changes in their lives.
-
Birth and Babies - Building Blocks for Resilience Books
The Building Blocks for Resilience Books is a series of books for parents and caregivers. These books provide information about resilience and provide age appropriate activities to help a child develop resiliency skills.
-
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Understanding how the brain works will help parents respond to their child. Information about various brain development aspects, including resilience, stress, and brain architecture are included on this website.
-
Triple P Parenting
Triple P Paring is an Alberta Government supported program that stands for "Positive Parenting Program." This flexible program doesn't tell you how to be a parent but gives you a toolbox of ideas and you choose the strategies you need. Other languages are provided in the eight-module online parenting course.
Canadian Resources
-
Caring for Kids - Behaviour and Parenting
Doctors from the Canadian Pediatric Society have created these tips sheets to address various parenting issues. Information relevant to babies, children, and teenagers are included.
caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/behavior-and-development#parenting
-
Nobody's Perfect
Nobody's Perfect is a free facilitated parenting program for parents of children from birth to age five. It is coordinated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and delivered across Canada through provincial and territorial organizations. The program is designed to meet the needs of parents who are young, single, socially or geographically isolated, or who have low income or limited formal education. It is offered in communities by facilitators to help support parents and young children.
There are also useful tip sheets found on this website. -
MediaSmarts
This website had digital and media literacy programs and resources for Canadian families. Created by Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications (CRTC), it strives to help children and youth develop the critical thinking skills needed to be active and informed digital citizens. Their For Parents page is designed to help you navigate parenting in the digital age by offering resources that address important media issues like sexting, cyberbullying, and online privacy.
Other Resources
-
Kids Health - Nine Steps to More Effective Parenting
Kids Health provides easy to read and doctor reviewed articles on a variety of health topics. This article provides parents with some tips to be more effective parents. También disponible en español.
-
Positive Discipline in Everyday Life
Positive discipline in everyday life is program designed to help parents learn how to teach children effectively, while respecting their rights and to promote strong parent-child relationships. It is based on current research findings on children's emotional, social and neurological development. This program is partnered with Families Canada. You can download the parent book to learn more.
-
Harvard University – Center on the Developing Child
The Center on the Developing Child aims to use science to innovate in the early childhood field and fundamentally change the lives of children facing adversity. Parents and healthcare providers can access research and information about early childhood development through the searchable resource library. The resources are available in a variety of languages.
-
Zero to Three
This website helps parents with young children. Zero to Three believes that during the first three years of life, emotionally nourishing relationships lay the foundation for lifelong health and well-being. Videos and easy to read articles about a variety of parenting and child development topics can be found from the Explore Our Topics menu.
-
CommonSenseMedia
This website is a leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families and schools. Common Sense Media rates movies, TV shows, books, and more to enable parents to make the best entertainment choices they can for their kids.
Book List
These resources are available to borrow in the Family Library. You can also check with your local library to see if they are available.
You can download, print, and share this PDF or our Destiny Collection list.
-
Raising Human Beings : Creating a Collaborative Partnership With Your Child
Renowned child psychologist explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 0 – 18 years old.) -
The Whole-Brain Child : 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
This book explains the science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures. It provides clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles, and illustrations that will help parents explain these concepts to their children.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 2 – 12 years old.) -
No-Drama Discipline : The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
No-Drama Discipline shows you how to work with your child's developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, inspire happiness, and strengthen resilience in everyone in the family.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 2 – 12 years old.) -
The
Circle of Security
parenting strategies will help you learn how to balance nurturing and protectiveness while promoting your child's independence; what emotional needs a child may be expressing through difficult behaviour; and keys to healthy attachment.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 1 – 12 years old.) -
Hold on to Your Kids : Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Argues that the growing phenomenon of peer orientation is undermining family cohesion and explains how parents and teachers can reverse the trend to serve as a source of guidance, love, and security for children
. (A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 3 – 18 years old.) -
The Teenage Brain : A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adult
A neurologist offers a revolutionary look into the brains of adolescents, providing insights and practical advice for adults and teens. This book presents new findings, dispels widespread myths, and offers suggestions for negotiating this difficult and dynamic life stage for both adults and adolescents.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 13 – 19 years old.) -
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
A sensible, lucid guide to practical and effective communication with your children. This book uses logical approaches to common problems. It demonstrates how to improve relationships with children to make them less stressful and more rewarding.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 5 – 18 years old.) -
Siblings Without Rivalry : How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
This book explains simple yet effective ways to reduce conflict and generate goodwill between siblings. Giving parents practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship.
(A resource for parents/caregivers with children aged 2 – 18 years old.) -
Almost everyone knows an explosive child, one whose frequent, severe fits of temper leave his or her parents standing helpless in their fear, frustration, and guilt. This book demonstrates why traditional treatments don't work for these kids and offers a fresh conceptual framework for understanding their behaviour.
(A resource for parents/caregivers to help manage challenging behaviours in children aged 3 – 18 years old.) -
Offers parents a glimpse into what makes their children behave the way they do. This guide offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling the toughest times.
(A resource for parents/caregivers to help manage challenging behaviours in children aged 3 – 18 years old.)
Contributors
Thank you to our friends from Calgary Public Library, Mood, Anxiety, and Psychosis Services, and Healthy Minds/Healthy Children – Outreach and Continuing Education, Child Development Services, Triple P Parenting, Leslie A.S. Barker RN, BScN, Med Parenting Education and Healthy Child Development Consultant, and Julia Imanoff MN, RN, PNC Doctoral Student, Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary for their contributions.
Current as of: January 26, 2024