Unison Parenting
Useful Links

The Proactive Parenting chapter suggested an idea of what chores children are capable of doing at each age:

• https://www.familyeducation.com/kids/responsibilities/i-did-it-all-myself-age-age-guide-teaching-your-child-life-skills

• https://childdevelopmentinfo.com/chores/the-ultimate-list-of-age-appropriate-chores/

The Adaptive Parenting chapter recommended a couple of resources on developmental progression:

• https://www.cdc.gov/child-development/positive-parenting-tips/

• https://sltforkids.co.uk/ages-and-stages-developmental-milestones

The Collective Parenting chapter suggested further ideas for grandparents raising their grandchildren at:

• https://blog.nchs.org/tips-grandparents-raising-their-grandchildren and 

• https://www.today.com/money/10-tips-grandparents-raising-grandchildren-wbna16876875

• Other links on raising children were mentioned but have been obsoleted by their websites since the book's publication.

The Preventative Parenting chapter urged getting current by reading these and other sites, summarizing and sharing the information with your parenting partners:

• https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Keeping-Youth-Drug-Free/sma17-3772, a US government site providing a range of information, mostly on alcohol, marijuana, and opioids.

• https://www.operationprevention.com/, a partnership effort between the DEA and Discovery Education to prevent drug abuse among children in grades three through twelve.

• Recent information on substance abuse, at https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/addiction-and-substance-misuse/index.html and at https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/substance-use/index.htm

• How do you know if your teen is using drugs? https://drugfree.org/article/signs-of-drug-use-in-teens

• A Parents’ Guide to Drug-Free Kids, at https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/growing-up-drug-free-2017.pdf

• https://drugfree.org/, which is focused on families with an addicted child.

• “Deadly Fake,” an excellent series on fentanyl by the Dallas Morning News in September 2023.  You may need a subscription in order to access this, so please search for the topic on their site.

• https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/teen-depression/symptoms-causes/syc-20350985, Mayo Clinic’s information about depression.

• Also: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/symptoms-causes/syc-20356007