Being a parent can be both the most rewarding and the most challenging part of your life - it's not only that children don't come with an "instruction book", it's also that by the time you think you've learned what's going on with your child, he or she has moved on again and you have to learn it all over again. Keeping up with what one magazine calls the "ages and stages" part of parenting isn't easy. And then, just when you think you have finally got a handle on it all, you discover that your child is a teenager...
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Child And Family WebGuide (Tufts University)
Child, Youth, & Family Health Web (Health Canada)
Communication Tips for Parents & Kids
Growing Up Male - Raising Sons
Hospital for Sick Children On-Line
Parenting Advice & Family Reference (FamilyEducation.com)
Parenting: Directory of Resources
Parenting Today's Teens (Health Canada)
Parent Resource Centre (Ottawa)
Parening Resources (Family Services Ottawa)
Parents' Guide to the Information Superhighway
PLEO - Parents' Lifelines of Eastern Ontario
Raising Children to Resist Violence
Talking To Your Kids About Sex (AACAP)
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