Child Behavior Worksheets

There are worksheets, handouts, letters, certificates and more at theincredibleyears.com. About the org:

Our mission is to advance the social and emotional behavior of children...through a series of interlocking parent, teacher and child programs supported by more than thirty years of clinically proven worldwide research.

 Poke around, stay a while. Enjoy.

Red-Blue Dialogue

For the holidays and beyond, some help bridging the red-blue divide--if only temporarily. After that, gloating and resistance can safely resume.

--Here's a ten-page guide from whatisessential.org using something called reflective structured dialogue (RSD).

--Avoid politics altogether with this Time for Family, Time for Talk workbook from talkofalifetime.org.

--Or provoke fights with Let's Talk About the Presidential Election from the ADL, a guide intended for classroom use. But who says you can't give your relatives writing assignments?

Good luck!

The Whole-Brain Child Workbook

You may have encountered The Whole-Brain Child, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson's how-to manual aimed at helping you...

Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including

• Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain's affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
• Engage, Don't Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
• Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child's emotional state.
• Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
• SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
• Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success.

With half of the book's twelve key strategies loaded up, you may be ready to launch straight into the companion Whole-Brain Child Workbook. This time via worksheets, the book...

[G]ives parents the tools and skills necessary to not only parent more effectively but to help their children grow into emotionally healthy, flexible and happy adults who can sustain intimate connections.

Sounds like a plan. Good luck!

Family Roles Worksheets

Just in time for the holidays, here's a family roles worksheet packet (link to PDF) which originated who knows when/where, hosted by the Murrieta Valley Unified School District. (Murrieta's just north of Temecula, CA, if you were wondering.) The info and worksheet packet seems aimed at teachers of kids with alcoholic parents, but the genogram, the family dynamics sheets, etc. should all be useful to just about anyone. Enjoy the worksheets, enjoy the holidays.

Positive Discipline Workbook

From University of Missouri Extension, here's Building Strong Families, a program featuring the Positive Discipline Workbook linked here.

Managing Work & Family Infosheets

From the (previously-linked) Denver Mayor's Office website, here's a page of infosheets about Managing Work & Family.

Co-Parenting Workbook

From http://www.togetherwecan.fcs.msue.msu.edu (Michigan State's Together We Can program), here's a six module Co-Parenting Workbook.

Positive Discipline Workbook

From extension.missouri.edu, here's a 15-page workbook about using positive discipline, called Building Strong Families. Explores parenting styles, the difference between discipline and punishment, and age-appropriate discipline. The book book (pictured below) is here.

Parenting from the Inside Out

Not worksheets, not really a workbook, Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell is a book book which encourages sorting through your life experience--especially your childhood--to better understand how you're reacting and responding as a parent. Each chapter has a series of guided journaling questions to help the process along, workbook style...and so the mention here.

Child Trauma Worksheets

From the National Child Trauma Stress Network, here's a long page of pdfs--infosheets, worksheets, and other--regarding childhood trauma.

Family Communication Worksheet

From bhs-pto.org, here's a single-page Family Communication Worksheet--a grid to help "clarify your own values and expectations for your teenage children, and to what extent you have communicated your expectations to your child."

Sex on TV Worksheet

From etr.org, here's a two-page Sex on TV Worksheet--subtitle "Teens and Parents Talk." Stuck for ice-breakers in the family? The worksheet asks a family to watch a teen TV show together, then run through suggested questions about the sexual messages contained in the show, in commercials, etc. Have fun.