Extension Parent Education
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Background Information For All Teaching Units
- Introduction and Overview
- Planning Family and Parenting Programs
- Starting and Ending Family and Parenting Programs
- Marketing Family and Parenting Programs
- Basics in Child Development
Teaching Units
- Positive Guidance and Discipline
- Changing Families
- School Readiness and Success
- Sibling Rivalry
- Fatherhood
- Self-esteem
- Talking about Acceptance
- Talking about Sexuality
- Talking about Death
- Talking about Violence
- Childhood Anger and Aggression
- Strengthening Families Through Family Fun
- Positive Guidance for Hard-to-Handle Kids: Parenting Education for Foster Parents
- Kids and Television
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