St. Felix and St. Agnes Parishes

Kids in the Middle
- Separation, Divorce & Remarriage issues

Catholic Kids Net
- Children and parents learn fun ways to connect faith and everyday life

Catholic Prayers to Teach Your Children
- Basic Prayers of the Catholic Faith

Catholic Prayers for Parents
- Prayers to help be a better parent (Includes How to Say the Rosary and the Chaplet of Devine Mercy)

Know The Rules of Safety
- General tips for parents to help keep their children safe in today’s world

Is Your Child Mature?
- Worksheet that will help you take a reality check of your child’s emotional and social maturity

Questions Youth Should Discuss with Parents
- Worksheet of eight questions youth should think about and discuss with their parents.

A Breath of Fresh Air - La Crosse Roads
- Five messages on Chastity that will put a smile on your face!

Standards Discussion Guide
- Worksheet that describes eight areas of family life that parents and youth of middle school age need to discuss and prepare standards for.

Conflict Resolution & Sharing Concern
- Worksheet that describes how conflicts occur and a system to use to resolve conflict.

Parenting in Stepfamilies
- Some of the most common challenges facing stepfamilies and some strategies for overcoming them

40 Developmental Assets® for Early Childhood
-Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

40 Developmental Assets® for Children Grades K–3
-Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

40 Developmental Assets® for Middle Childhood (ages 8-12)
-Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

40 Developmental Assets® for Adolescents (ages 12-18)
-Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

Develop Healthy Media Habits
As a parent, there are many ways you can help your child develop positive media habits. Here is a list of tips to help your family use media more prudently.

General Principles for Teaching Sexuality by Developmental Stage
A guide for what parents are called to do at each stage of a child's development, from early childhood through adulthood, to foster a healthy and well-ordered sense of sexuality in the child.

Home Maintenance Expectations
Authoritative parents expect that their children will contribute to the well-being of the family by taking on the responsibility of certain household chores. Three areas of basic life skills which should be expected are: cleaning a house and keeping it that way, planning/selecting and preparing healthy meals, budget and making appropriate purchases.

Negotiable and Non negotiable Standards
As you decide on the standards to expect from your children, and as you dialogue with your children about these standards, it is important to make clear which standards are negotiable and which ones are non-negotiable. In other words, which standards will depend on the circumstances and on good judgment and which standards are always and everywhere the same. Here is a guide to some standards to consider in each category.

What is My Childs Favorite Expression of Love
Identify your child's love language with this observation worksheet. We recommend that you post the sheet on the refrigerator or somewhere equally visible to remind you to keep record of how your children give and receive love within the family relationship.

What to Expect general characteristics
This handy little guide offers general characteristics of children at each stage of development. Knowing these characteristics can help you to figure out how best to relate to you children based on how they interact with the world and what is most important to them developmentally.

Healthy Relationship Development
Keeping our children safe from those who would abuse them is of primary importance to every parent. This is a list of ten parental actions that have a direct impact on a child’s health and safety. When these actions are consistently demonstrated by parents, their children are more likely to be safe and less likely to be susceptible to the emotional grooming of a predator.

Encouraging Autonomy and Independence in our Children

What is the best way to understand and respond to our children when they are struggling with issues pertaining to autonomy and independence?

What is age-appropriate and what is a sign of a possible problem?

What are the most likely parenting strategies to reduce the frequency of problem behaviors without overreacting to an extent where the parent-child relationship becomes unnecessarily tense?

Please join us as we talk about the ways to differentiate between behaviors that are developmental and likely to cease over time and the behaviors that may require more attention and concern.

Dr. Kahn is a psychologist with a practice that is devoted to helping parents with the everyday challenges of raising children. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1978, specializing in children, adolescents, and families. He began working for private schools (Benilde St. Margaret, St. Hubert) in 1981 and has a group of specialists (fifteen master’s level counselors and two chemical health specialists) providing counseling and psychological assessments to twenty-five private schools. He's also the author of Insightful Parenting: Making Moments Count and writes a monthly article about parenting that is posted on his website www.drstevekahn.com

Parenting Newsletter

If you are intrested in purchasing the book by Dr. Steve Kahn Insightful Parenting: Making Moments Count, you may contact the parish office at 651-565-3931 or stop by to pick one up. The book price is $17.00.

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