Parent Resources and links

Below you will find several sections with links to information you may find helpful.  Some of the information is school specific and some is just general, helpful information for parents to have. We do not necessarily endorse the organizations to which we are linking, nor are we compensated in any way for linking them.  Please consider these links a start when you are looking for information.  This information is intended for parents.

 Digital Media

• Gifted Geek (UK site with LOTS of current info about online safety)

• Common Sense Media (All things digital and screen related)

• SafeKids.net (Kids' rules for online safety)

• Kids.gov (All sorts of safety, both online and off)

• Information about Netflix 13 Reasons Why program - one of many articles

Drugs and Alcohol

• The Dangers of Vaping

• Kidshealth.org (All sorts of health and safety information)

• Focus on the Family (Health, safety and parenting from a Christian perspective)

• Lock Your Meds Campaign (Prescription drug abuse)

• Talking to your kids about drugs and alcohol (This is a business page not endorsed by us, but it does have good information. Suggested to us by 12 year old Shannon, in Ireland.)

• Tobacco-use Prevention resource list

Serious Illness, Death and Grieving

• Local Grief Counseling Groups List

• Canadian Virtual Hospice (When to tell the children a loved one is dying)

• The Fred Rogers Company (Helping children deal with death)

• Willow House (support for kids and teens grieving and/or dealing with death)

• Cancer Research UK (when a family member has cancer)

• Coping with grief and death - the bereavement process

General Parenting Tips

• Catholic Online(10 Parenting Tips from the 10 Commandments)

• Catholic Parent (All sorts of ideas that tie to parenting from the Catholic perspective)