Resources for your family
Mental Health Resources
Mental Health America of Sheboygan County (download PDF for a list of providers)
Other Mental Health Links
Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County
Sheboygan County Health and Human Services
Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Plymouth
Death, divorce, separation, or abandonment support group - Rainbow Kids
National Alliance on Mental Illness - Fond du Lac Chapter
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Sheboygan
Lutheran Social Services Resources
Resources for building Self-Esteem
40 Developmental Assets - Search Institute has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets—that help young children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
Asset Lists -
Early Childhood (ages 3-5)
Ideas on how to take action on the assets - put your cursor on the link that says 'Take Action'
Grades K-3
Ideas on how to take action on the assets
MIddle Childhood (ages 8-12)
Ideas on how to take action on the assets - put your cursor on the link that says 'Take Action'
Your Role in Your Child’s Self-Esteem - Nathaniel Branden's perspective
Resources for keeping your student safe - Protective Behaviors
Kid Escape - 'prepare your children to escape in unforeseen situations.'
Anti-Drug - 'Natural High is a drug abuse prevention organization that helps youth discover, amplify and pursue their natural high so that they have a reason to say no to an artificial high.'
Internet Safety - Netsmartz 'Parenting wired kids can be difficult, especially if you didn't grow up with the same technologies. These resources can help.'
- Keeping Children Safe on the Internet: Guidelines for Parents
Parents helping their students deal with crisis/trauma in the media:
*Tips for Adults on How to Talk with Children about Connecticut School Shooting
*Helping Young Children and Families Cope with Trauma
*RESPONSIBLE MEDIA COVERAGE OF CRISIS EVENTS IMPACTING CHILDREN
*SUGGESTIONS FOR DEALING WITH THE MEDIA
Resources on Parenting
Happy Family Checklist - 'to help you identify where your family needs some work and therefore to help you set your family goals.'
Unconditional Parenting - 'practical strategies for shifting from "doing to" to "working with" parenting - including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people.'
10 Principles of Unconditional Parenting
Teach Through Love - Unconditional Parenting explained
Parenting Tools
Really meeting your child's needs - definition of unconditional parenting, practical tools to help you meet those important needs and practical parenting examples.
Peace 4 Parents - 'It’s about nurturing the loving presence you are… as you parent your children, tend to your family, and live your life.'
Non-Violent Communication -'is a tool that leads us toward a quality of connection among people where everyone’s needs are valued and get met through compassionate giving—out of the joy of contributing to another human being.'
Books for families
Anger
Let's Talk about Feeling Angry by Joy Berry
When Emily Woke Up Angry by Riana Duncan
Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
I Was So Mad by Mercer Mayer
When I Feel Angry by Corneila Maude Spelman
Bullying
The Ant Bully by John Nickle
The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
Don't Laugh At Me by Steve Seskin
Stop Picking on Me by Pat Thomas
Divorce
Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie
Dinosaur's Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families by Laurie Brown
Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Betty Boegehold
Feelings
Feeling Afraid by Rochelle Nielsen Barsuhn
What a Bad Dream by Mercer Mayer
Feelings by Aliki
Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad by Constance Allen
Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis
Hurty Feelings by Helen Lester
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
Friendship
How to Be a Friend by Laurie Krasny Brown
That's What a Friend Is by P.K. Hallinan
The Friendship Theif by Hesta Roach
How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson
The Hating Book by Charlotte Zolotow
Don't Need Friends by Carolyn Crimi
Chester's Way by Kevin Henkes
Self Concept
I'm Gonna Like Me by Jamie Lee curtis
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Special People by Rachael Letch
The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem by Diane Loomans
It's Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr
I'm Glad to be Me by P.K. Hallinan
The Not So Fast Rabbit by Carol B. Kaplan
ABC I Like Me by Nancy Carlson
A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester
Life is Fun! by Nancy Carlson
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
Boris the Boring Boar by Ellen Jackson
Mental Health America of Sheboygan County (download PDF for a list of providers)
Other Mental Health Links
Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County
Sheboygan County Health and Human Services
Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Plymouth
Death, divorce, separation, or abandonment support group - Rainbow Kids
National Alliance on Mental Illness - Fond du Lac Chapter
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Sheboygan
Lutheran Social Services Resources
Resources for building Self-Esteem
40 Developmental Assets - Search Institute has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets—that help young children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
Asset Lists -
Early Childhood (ages 3-5)
Ideas on how to take action on the assets - put your cursor on the link that says 'Take Action'
Grades K-3
Ideas on how to take action on the assets
MIddle Childhood (ages 8-12)
Ideas on how to take action on the assets - put your cursor on the link that says 'Take Action'
Your Role in Your Child’s Self-Esteem - Nathaniel Branden's perspective
Resources for keeping your student safe - Protective Behaviors
Kid Escape - 'prepare your children to escape in unforeseen situations.'
Anti-Drug - 'Natural High is a drug abuse prevention organization that helps youth discover, amplify and pursue their natural high so that they have a reason to say no to an artificial high.'
Internet Safety - Netsmartz 'Parenting wired kids can be difficult, especially if you didn't grow up with the same technologies. These resources can help.'
- Keeping Children Safe on the Internet: Guidelines for Parents
Parents helping their students deal with crisis/trauma in the media:
*Tips for Adults on How to Talk with Children about Connecticut School Shooting
*Helping Young Children and Families Cope with Trauma
*RESPONSIBLE MEDIA COVERAGE OF CRISIS EVENTS IMPACTING CHILDREN
*SUGGESTIONS FOR DEALING WITH THE MEDIA
Resources on Parenting
Happy Family Checklist - 'to help you identify where your family needs some work and therefore to help you set your family goals.'
Unconditional Parenting - 'practical strategies for shifting from "doing to" to "working with" parenting - including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people.'
10 Principles of Unconditional Parenting
Teach Through Love - Unconditional Parenting explained
Parenting Tools
Really meeting your child's needs - definition of unconditional parenting, practical tools to help you meet those important needs and practical parenting examples.
Peace 4 Parents - 'It’s about nurturing the loving presence you are… as you parent your children, tend to your family, and live your life.'
Non-Violent Communication -'is a tool that leads us toward a quality of connection among people where everyone’s needs are valued and get met through compassionate giving—out of the joy of contributing to another human being.'
Books for families
Anger
Let's Talk about Feeling Angry by Joy Berry
When Emily Woke Up Angry by Riana Duncan
Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
I Was So Mad by Mercer Mayer
When I Feel Angry by Corneila Maude Spelman
Bullying
The Ant Bully by John Nickle
The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
Don't Laugh At Me by Steve Seskin
Stop Picking on Me by Pat Thomas
Divorce
Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie
Dinosaur's Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families by Laurie Brown
Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Betty Boegehold
Feelings
Feeling Afraid by Rochelle Nielsen Barsuhn
What a Bad Dream by Mercer Mayer
Feelings by Aliki
Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad by Constance Allen
Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis
Hurty Feelings by Helen Lester
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
Friendship
How to Be a Friend by Laurie Krasny Brown
That's What a Friend Is by P.K. Hallinan
The Friendship Theif by Hesta Roach
How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson
The Hating Book by Charlotte Zolotow
Don't Need Friends by Carolyn Crimi
Chester's Way by Kevin Henkes
Self Concept
I'm Gonna Like Me by Jamie Lee curtis
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Special People by Rachael Letch
The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem by Diane Loomans
It's Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr
I'm Glad to be Me by P.K. Hallinan
The Not So Fast Rabbit by Carol B. Kaplan
ABC I Like Me by Nancy Carlson
A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester
Life is Fun! by Nancy Carlson
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
Boris the Boring Boar by Ellen Jackson