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Positive Parenting Practices
By engaging in positive parenting, parents can help their adolescent make healthy choices.
Parenting a teen is not easy. Many outside influences distract our youth and add challenges to parenting efforts. Youth need adults who are there for them—people who connect with them, communicate with them, spend time with them, and show a genuine interest in them. A key parental role is helping teens understand that their health and well-being—now and in the future—are not simply a matter of chance, but a matter of choice.
Parenting Practice Topic
Parenting Practice Topic
Protective Factor Focus
Protective Factor Focus
Parental monitoring
Parental monitoring
Learn ways parents can use effective monitoring practices to help their teen make healthy decisions and avoid risky behaviors
Learn ways parents can use effective monitoring practices to help their teen make healthy decisions and avoid risky behaviors
Fathers’ influence
Fathers’ influence
Learn ways fathers can help their teen avoid sexual risk behaviors
Learn ways fathers can help their teen avoid sexual risk behaviors
Parents’ influence on lesbian, gay, or bisexual teens
Parents’ influence on lesbian, gay, or bisexual teens
Learn ways parents can promote positive health outcomes for their lesbian, gay, or bisexual teen
Learn ways parents can promote positive health outcomes for their lesbian, gay, or bisexual teen
Parent-teen communication about sex
Parent-teen communication about sex
Learn ways parents can have meaningful discussions with their teen about sex, relationships, and the prevention of HIV, STDs, and pregnancy
Learn ways parents can have meaningful discussions with their teen about sex, relationships, and the prevention of HIV, STDs, and pregnancy
Supporting One on One Time with a Healthcare Provider
Supporting One on One Time with a Healthcare Provider
Learn ways parents can help teens build trusting relationships with healthcare providers to talk about sensitive issues such as sexual and mental health, substance use, and safety from bullying
Learn ways parents can help teens build trusting relationships with healthcare providers to talk about sensitive issues such as sexual and mental health, substance use, and safety from bullying