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Parenting Parenting Research
Education
Education is the raison d’etre of the University of Minnesota
Extension Service and is the heart of the Positive Parenting
project. The education component consists
of the development of several educational products and the
conduct of parent education programming by the staff of public
school-based Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE), Headstart,
public health, social services, churches, Extension, Ys, and
numerous other agencies and organizations. Among the project’s
educational products are:
- Positive Parenting—a six-lesson,
video-based parent education curriculum intended for use
with parents of preschool and early-elementary aged children.
Produced jointly by the University of Minnesota Extension
Service and University of Wisconsin-Extension. Each lesson
unit includes a video segment, lesson guide, parent handouts,
learning aids, and reference lists; curriculum also includes
evaluation tools. Lesson topics: physical punishment, limits,
consequences, listening, anger, and challenging behaviors.
Completed in August 1995.
- Positive Parenting II—a six-lesson,
video-based parent education curriculum intended for use
with parents of preschool and elementary aged children.
Produced in cooperation with University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Structured identically to earlier curriculum. Lesson topics:
parenting tools, attention, respect, responsibility, monitoring,
siblings. Completed in October 1997.
- Positive Parenting of Teens—an
eight-lesson, video-based parent education curriculum intended
for use with parents of early adolescents (aged approx.
10-15). Produced in cooperation with University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Structured identically to earlier curricula. Lesson topics:
parenting teen today; perception, development, communication,
conflict, discipline, teen decision-making, friends/peers;
also 15 fact sheets on sticky teen issues—dating, sexuality,
sexual orientation, substance abuse, school, work, money,
family responsibilities, depression, suicide, tolerance,
competition, parties.
Completed in September 1999.
- Positive Parenting of Teens: A Parent’s Guide—an
eight-unit guide intended for at-home use by parents of
early adolescents (aged approx 10-15). Includes the video
and re-formatted parent handouts from the Positive
Parenting of Teens curriculum. Also includes
the "issues fact sheets" and resources lists from
that curriculum. Completed in May 2000.
- Positive Discipline: A Guide for Parents—a
52-page booklet prepared from project materials by members
of the team, in cooperation with Children’s Hospital and
Clinics. Initial printing and distribution funded by Target
Stores Inc. Completed in 1999.
- A series of Info-U recorded telephone messages
on positive parenting topics have been prepared and are
accessible in Minnesota through an 880 number. These are
widely used and highly popular with parents and parent educators.
These messages are accessed over 1000 times per month.
- A Positive Parenting project
website (www.parenting.umn.edu)
–contains project overview; review of the literature on
the consequences of physical punishment on children; 650+
citation bibliography; selected research and evaluation
data; descriptions and ordering information for the curricula.
- A quarterly Positive Parenting newsletter
prepared and delivered electronically, which can be accessed
directly by consumers or can be downloaded and printed by
county Extension offices or parent education programs. Hard
copies of each issue are distributed to some 100,000 parents
in Minnesota. Written primarily by the project director
and other project team members.
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