National Effective Parenting Initiative Tips for
Effective Parenting Newsletter

Spring 2008

In This Issue...

8 Good Reasons Not to Spank

Simple Successful Strategies for Parents of Overweight Children

Is it Okay to Leave My Child Home Alone?

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The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy, and Successful Children Birth-Adolescence

Taming the Spirited Child

The Case Against Adolescence

Happiest Baby on the Block

Raising Good Children

Who Makes Us Us?

Yelling, Threatening, Putting Down: What To Do Instead

Power of Positive Parenting Guidebook

The CICC Discovery Tool Book

P.E.T. Parent Effectiveness Training

The Incredible Years

Kindergarten Survival Handbook

Parents and Adolescences Living Together

The Seven Secrets of Effective Fathers

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Spring 2008 edition of Tips for Effective Parenting, the newsletter for parent members of the National Effective Parenting Initiative.

This issue contains four brief articles addressing such important parenting matters as becoming a media savvy mother or father so that you can best deal with your children's involvement with social networking websites, videogames as well as other media phenomena.

This issue also provides solid reasons for not spanking children, guidelines for dealing with overweight children and very important matters to consider about leaving children at home alone.

All the articles are written by subject matter authorities from major parenting education groups.

Feel feel to share this practical guidance with others and do encourage them to also become members of NEPI.

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Warmly,

Kerby T. Alvy

NEPI Founder, Board of Advisors

	Six Ways to Be a Media Savvy Parent by Liz Perle, Common Sense Media
Liz Perle of Common Sense Media, writes about how parents can manage their children's online lives and give them a "digital code of conduct." To read the complete article, click here.

	8 Good Reasons Not to Spank by Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D. Active Parenting Publishers
One of the nation's leading parent educators explains why it is NEVER a good idea to spank children. To read the complete article, click here.

	Simple Successful Strategies for Parents of Overweight Children by Betty Holmes, MS, RD, University of Wyoming
Childhood obesity has become a major health issue in the United States. Betty Holmes takes a look at how parents can help their children slim down. To read the complete article, click here.

	Is it Okay to Leave My Child Home Alone? by Erna Fishaut, University of Minnesota Extension
When to leave a child at home is a difficult decision. Erna Fishaut gives some specific guidance and suggestions as to what to consider. To read the complete article, click here.