Distance & Online Parenting Courses

Choosing and Instructing a Babysitter

Entrusting someone to care for your child can be difficult. Finding a qualified babysitter requires time and effort, but your reward is assurance that your child is in capable hands.

Children: Parenting: Discipline

Tutorials on disciplining your children

How to Be a Good Parent

Being a good parent takes work. The job is to help children to grow up to fulfill their potential in life. It takes lots of patience and understanding, but it offers great rewards — for our kids, for ourselves, and for our communities. The better we understand the job, the better we can do it.

How Becoming Parents Affects Your Relationship

Expectant parents spend months preparing for the arrival of their baby. By the time they bring their new little family member home, they've taken classes, read a library's worth of books, and bought enough onesies to fill an entire dresser. But even with all the preparation, the reality of caring for a baby can be overwhelming.

Preparing Your Child for a New Sibling

For parents, the arrival of a baby is a happy event. This is not necessarily true for an older child. While there probably is no way to keep your child from resenting - however slightly - the shift of the spotlight to a newborn, there are ways to help children cope with the future scenestealer.