BC Council for Families

Articles

• • Are you losing control of your teen?
  • by Carolyn Bergmann If it feels like you are losing control of your teen, you are.
• • Beyond the Birds and Bees: Talking with Kids about Sex and Relationships
  • By Saleema Noon “If I teach my kids about sex, are they going to want to go out and do it?” “I want my child to stay innocent!” “It will make them grow up too fast!” “You want me to talk about WHAT?!”
• • Children, Families and the Urban Environment
  • By Marilee Peters
• • Do Parent Education Programs Make a Difference?
  • By Berna J. Skrypnek Over 50 years of scientific research now confirms the wisdom of the ages—PARENTS MATTER ! How we parent impacts our children’s development in important ways. Yet, parenting does not come instinctively to many parents and babies do not come with a manual. Many parents find...
• • Full-time Dad: Part-time Kids
  • All children have basic needs which are the same in all family structures. Fathers meet these needs through the different roles they play.
• • Ordinary Magic: Lessons Learned from Research on Resilience in Human Development
  • Resilience and the factors which contribute to or decrease it has been studied extensively recently.
• • Parenting the difficult child
  • By Kate Andersen Kate Andersen is a sessional instructor with the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. She pioneered efforts to help parents of temperamentally difficult children in British Columbia and has worked with such families for over a decade. She recently conducted...
• • Supporting our Teens by Challenging the Myths of Adolescence
  • by Maria Weatherby Taking a closer look at the changes of adolescence, and the ways we can build support and offer assistance to teens.
• • Teaching money management skills to children
  • by Carolyn M. Usher Teaching children to be “wise consumers” and use money responsibly requires different tactics at different ages.
• • The Importance of Parenting
  • A position paper of the BC Council for Families