General: Parenting Teens and Pre-Teens
Do-it-Yourself: Excellent Sites For Research/Self-Help
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Thomas, a service of the Library of Congress, is the link to legislative information on the Internet.
http://www.nolopress.com/
Long a fixture in the “doing it yourself” world, Nolo Press publishes hundreds of legal books, forms and software.
http://www.webmd.com/
WebMD provides up-to-date information on medical concerns of all sorts. Aside from the detailed info on everything from allergies to weight control, WebMD offers an assortment of quizzes, calculators, and other resources on topics such as diet and nutrition, infertility, men’s and women’s health issues, and sexuality.
Raising Adolescents and Adolescent Development
http://soe.cahs.colostate.edu/cttec/tladolescentheory.html
This is the site of the Colorado Technology in Teacher Education Consortium and contains links to a variety of other sites and studies on adolescent development…more on the academic side, but good information.
http://health.discovery.com/centers/teen/index/teenindex.html
Good basic website presented by Discovery Channel—information on a wide variety of teen behaviors, with some articles written by teens themselves on topics like dating, relationships, sexuality, drugs, self-injury, etc.
Resources for Teens
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/
Go Ask Alice! is the health question and answer Internet service produced by Alice!, Columbia University’s Health Education Program—a division of Health Services at Columbia. This site has three primary features: Question & Answers of the week, with the most recently published inquiries and responses—updated every week; Search GAA! lets you find health information by subject via a search of the ever-growing Go Ask Alice! archives containing nearly 3,000 previously-posted questions and answers and; Ask Alice! gives you the chance to ask and submit a question to Alice!
http://www.pamf.org/teen/hotlines.html
Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s listing of Bay Area and national crisis lines and hotlines, from suicide and self-injury to grief support and sexuality information.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
For geeks and non-geeks alike. This is just a cool site. Want to know how something works? This is where you’ll probably find out about it. This can be used to impress your physics teacher, if you’re in the mood.
http://www.jfcs.org/Services/Individuals_and_Couples/Individuals_
and_Couples_Resource_Library/Individuals_and_Couples_Articles/
Domestic_Violence_Resource_Guide.asp
If you live in the Bay Area and need help with anything related to abuse or violence, you can check out this site organized by JFCS (Jewish Family and Children’s Services). Good basic information for helpful programs about all kinds of domestic violence.
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dl/dl.htm
Department of Motor Vehicles for the State of California. The site links to Information about how to get your driver’s license and permit. |
