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Pre-K to 5th Resources

Pre-K to 5th Resources

The Community Fund’s Thriving Youth program primarily focuses on positive youth development for 7th-12th-grade students. However, we know that the earlier children start building resilience, self-esteem and adaptive skills, the better. Local pediatricians, social workers, and therapists shared their favorite resources to provide for parents of children in PRE-K through 5th grade regarding these important areas of development.
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Role Modeling​

“You can preach and you can preach, you can tell and you can tell, but we all learn primarily by example. There is something about what we’re not intending that seeps through much stronger than what we are intending.” What does research say about the power of positive role models?
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40 Developmental Assets

Research from the Search Institute identifies 40 Developmental Assets that have a powerful, positive impact on young people. How do we build assets in our children’s daily lives?
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Social-Emotional Skills

Social-emotional skills include self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills. Learned early, these skills can help children overcome challenges, avoid unhealthy behavior and have a long-lasting impact into adulthood. How can we help children develop these skills?
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Resilience

Children’s ability to thrive despite challenges arises from the skills of resilience. How to do we equip our children to adapt well to adversity, tragedy and stress?
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Mindfulness

Research shows mindfulness mitigates the effects of bullying, reduces attention problems, improves mental health and more. What are some mindfulness activities we can try with our children?
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Adverse Childhood Experiences

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is the term given to describe all types of traumatic experiences that occur to individuals under the age of 18. The Kaiser ACE Study examine the relationships between these experiences during childhood and reduce health and well-being later in life.
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Additional Resources

Websites to Bookmark
  • Child Mind Institute
  • Common Sense Media
  • Healthy Children

Parenting Books for Parents of Preschoolers

​Parenting Videos

​Related Topics
  • Brain Development
  • Calm Parenting
  • Challenging Behavior - Zero to Three
  • Challenging Behavior - Child Mind
  • Temperament
  • Discipline
  • Limit-Setting
  • Mindful Parenting
  • National Parent Survey
  • Positive Parenting Approaches
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​Darien, CT 06820
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    • Student Survey Results
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