Downloadable Resources

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Know the Rules of Safety
General tips for parents to help keep their children safe in today’s world

Parenting in Step Families
Some of the most common challenges facing stepfamilies and some strategies for overcoming them

40 Developmental Assets for Early Childhood
Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

40 Developmental Assets for Grades K-3
Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

40 Developmental Assets for Middle School
Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents
Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

Home Maintenance Expectations
Authoritative parents expect that their children will contribute to the well-being of the family by taking on the responsibility of certain household chores. Three areas of basic life skills which should be expected are: cleaning a house and keeping it that way, planning/selecting and preparing healthy meals, budget and making appropriate purchases.

Negotiable and Non-negotiable Standards
As you decide on the standards to expect from your children, and as you dialogue with your children about these standards, it is important to make clear which standards are negotiable and which ones are non-negotiable. In other words, which standards will depend on the circumstances and on good judgment and which standards are always and everywhere the same. Here is a guide to some standards to consider in each category.

What to Expect: General Characteristics
This handy little guide offers general characteristics of children at each stage of development. Knowing these characteristics can help you to figure out how best to relate to you children based on how they interact with the world and what is most important to them developmentally.