In this video, adolescent medicine specialist Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, interviews teenagers and asks questions about their relationships with their parents. Topics include: how communication could be improved, advice for parents, and what type of parents teens hope to become. From The American Academy of Pediatrics publication "Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience...

Dr. Angela Diaz works with kids who face many challenges in their lives. In this film, she discusses the importance of showing love and respect when communicating with teenagers. From The American Academy of Pediatrics publication "Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development.

Dr. Michael Rich believes the most important function in communicating with teenagers is listening. In this film, he discusses understanding where teenagers are and working with them to find solutions. From The American Academy of Pediatrics publication "Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development.

Psychologist Carl Pickhardt offers insight from his thirty years of experience counseling caregivers on how to navigate the adolescent development process-from eight to eighteen. For most parents, the onset of puberty brings an unexpected, even unwelcome change in their child's behavior, which can cause bewilderment, confusion, and sadness. Dr. Pickhardt's comforting and knowledgeable voice points out that not only can growth change many beloved characteristics...

The most dramatic changes in any person's life occur within the first year. For parents or caregivers, it is vital to know what to expect of a baby's progress in this time. This video provides essential information on developmental milestones associated with a child's first 15 months of life. The program looks at the importance of communication, as well as how to recognize cognitive and motor development, such as palmer and plantar grasp and the Moro...

Although children 7 to 12 still need their physical safety and health protected, they also require strong role models, boundaries, and positive feedback to develop fully. This video will take the viewer through two stages: (1) middle childhood, when children build on what they learned in early childhood, and (2) early adolescence, when children begin to undergo the changes associated with puberty. During these years, children typically pull away from...

Includes a discussion of physical and emotional changes adolescents go through and how they cope with family and peers, as well as the major life decisions they must make as they face the uncertain future ahead of them.

Children and adolescents should do at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity each day. These exercises should include cardio-respiratory (aerobic), muscle strengthening, and bone strengthening activities as well as flexibility exercises.

" In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy;...

If you don't get in that car right now, young lady, you're going to get a spanking! How many parents or caregivers have lost their tempers and blurted out a threat when a child refused to cooperate? This program shows parents, teachers, and childcare workers another way to reach and teach youngsters. A child development specialist joined by parents demonstrates how positive discipline allows children to achieve self-discipline and responsibility for...