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"A new study from North Carolina State University finds that educating children about climate change increases their parents' concerns about climate change. "There's a robust body of work showing that kids can influence their parents' behavior and positions on environmental and social issues, but this is the first experimental study demonstrating that climate education for children promotes parental concern about climate change," says Danielle Lawson, lead author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student at NC State."

#PTchat Archive from 2/8/12 on "Most Innovative Ways Classroom Teachers Are Engaging Parents."  A lot of good ideas shared.

A teacher-parent-blogger advocates for the difficulty and conflicts that arise when occupying roles both in the classroom and at home.

With this annotated bibliography, Suzanna So-Har Wong and Dr. Linda Laidlaw address challenges faced by families in finding picture books that portray diverse family compositions such as in transracial adoptive families, single parent families, same-sex parents or blended families.

"A number of challenges stand between schools and effective, valuable engagement with parents Schools can improve parental engagement by revolutionising the way they communicate with families via a cost effective app."

Including parents in the ecosystem of teaching and learning with technology - a short blog posting -

"There is to be a discussion amongst the Australian Attorney Generals about the privacy laws in regards to parents having legal access to their children's Facebook accounts .. Unfortunately if you need to force your way into your child's Facebook account to "Spy" on them it's probably because there is already a problem with trust and your child's safety is probably in question."

Free booklet (online, PDF, or hardcopy) in English and Spanish with helpful information for parents to help children cope with violence and disasters.

Nearly 40% of parents with children aged 2-to-13 who read ebooks plan to purchase a new e-reading device for their children this holiday season

Free parent-teacher conference scheduler

This blog post suggests ways schools can open up communication with parents and make them more part of the education of their children

Parenting advice I wish every parent would read.

The mother of three grown women explains how to say "no."

Grades 1st - 12th. This resource was developed for parents by the PTA to inform parents what their child will work on in a particular grade and how they can help at home.

Conditional parenting vs. unconditional love, with research support

what puts kids at risk are things like: having a lot of conflict with your parents being depressed and socially isolated being hyper communicating with a lot of people who you don't know being willing to talk about sex with people that you don't know having a pattern of multiple risky activities going to sex sites and chat rooms, meeting lots of people there, and behaving like an Internet daredevil.

Welcome to A Parents' Guide to Facebook (PDF). It's designed to help you understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, you will be better informed and able to communicate with young Facebook users in your life more effectively.

Resource for #BTS #BacktoSchool night for #Parents in #LMTSD to explain #CCSS #CommonCore State #Standards...

Article about online parent-teacher conference registration.

A better way to organize parent-teacher conferences. (or parent-teacher interviews, as they're called in the UK) Scholastico makes it easy to set up the conference day. Parents get to sign up for their preferred time slot, resulting in less work for the school office.