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Our parenting resources help support effective parenting, including ways to be more attuned and responsive to children’s needs. We also have resources for promoting your well-being, which is the foundation of warm, consistent relationships with children.

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Parenting styles – what do the UW experts say?

In this panel discussion, presenters, including Dr. Liliana Lengua, discuss popular parenting styles such as free range, attachment, and helicopter parenting.

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Mindful Parenting

Drs. Liliana Lengua and Suzanne Kerns, University of Denver, offer tips on how to bring mindfulness into your everyday interactions with your child.

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The Development of Thinking About People: From Behavior to Brain

Dr. Jessica Sommerville investigates the development of thinking about people from infancy through the school years using both behavioral and brain-based methods.

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Policy Brief: Advances in Social Emotional Learning: Current understanding, research and practice

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. After more than 30 years of research on social emotional learning (SEL) in classrooms, scientists and practitioners, recognizing that social emotional learning is…

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Policy Brief: Laying a Foundation for Social & Emotional, Cognitive, and Academic Competence: Promoting Responsive, Secure Caregiving Relationships

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. When the primary attachment relationship is secure, children are more likely to have a range of positive outcomes, including empathy, curiosity, adaptive emotional regulation…

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Policy Brief: Laying a Foundation for Academic, Social & Emotional Competence: Promoting Effortful Control

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. Effortful control, a core of self-regulation, has been shown to predict academic, social, and emotional success in both typical and at-risk children. In fact, it is a more robust predictor of early academic and social success than early verbal skills…

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Family Values and Culture in the Successful Adjustment of Ethnic Minority Adolescents

Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, discusses African and Mexican-American parenting styles and how they serve to hinder or help adolescent adjustment.  

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