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Parenting Tips – Videos for Improving Parenting Skills - Connect With Kids videos improve your parenting skills with parenting tips to help facilitate communication with your kids.

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Products - The Character Collection: Have you ever wanted help really connecting with your students?
Products - The Health Collection: Kids don’t always listen to adults when it comes to their health…
Products - The Social & Emotional Collection: It’s hard to get kids to talk about their lives…

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The Biggest Generation - Teenage Obesity – Help Your Obese Teenager - Understand childhood obesity facts. Connect With Kids videos help explain the link between fast food, children, and obesity.
The Big Hurt - Emotional Impact of Child Obesity - Child obesity is an epidemic. Connect With Kids videos teach parents and kids about the effects of childhood obesity.
Civil Wars - Rebellious Teenagers - Disrespect, Violence and Unruly Behavior - Frustrated with an angry kid? Connect With Kids videos help parents facilitate early communication with problem kids.
The Teenage Brain - Troubled Teenagers? See How the Teenage Mind Works - This Connect With Kids video helps parents understand troubled teenagers and facilitate communication with defiant teenagers.
Caught in the Web - Teenage Internet Safety - Teenage internet safety is important. Connect With Kids videos help parents and teens discuss internet safety for teenagers.
The Enemy Inside - Teenagers Cutting Themselves - Teenagers cutting themselves? Connect With Kids videos explain this phenomenon and help you discuss teenage cutting with your kids.
Gateway - Teenagers and Smoking and Alcohol - Connect With Kids helps parents and teens discuss the connection between teenagers and smoking and teenagers and drugs.
Just Once - The Addictive Danger of Methamphetamine - Crystal meth addiction is devastating. This video from Connect With Kids explains how families cope with crystal meth addiction.
A Silent Epidemic - AIDS, STDs, Teen Sex - How do you talk to your kids about the life-long effects of STDs? About the physical and emotional pain? The real risks of oral sex?
The Trouble With Boys - Why Boys Struggle in School - Watch the critically acclaimed video program, The Trouble With Boys, and learn what you can do to help your boys be the best they can be.
Affluenza - Spoiled, Entitled, Materialistic Kids - We’ve seen them, heard them, some of us may even be raising them ourselves: children who want more, faster, bigger, better. Cars, cell phones, designer clothes.
Ripped Apart - Steroid Use - Ripped Apart is a straightforward program to show in class, in coaching sessions and at home, so parents, coaches and children can learn about the risks and stop the dangerous use of steroids.
Against All Odds - Raising Successful Kids - Why do some children succeed while others fail? How do children who face tremendous obstacles find the determination, strength and skills to achieve? And what can parents and educators do to help nurture the resiliency in our own kids?
The Myth of Self-Esteem - Self-Esteem, Over-Praising - Does self-esteem lead to achievement? Or do children have to accomplish something before they feel good about themselves? Could we be going too far in helping kids gain self-esteem?
First Comes Love - Early Dating/Early Sexual Activity - Will you be ready when your son has his first girlfriend? When your daughter has her first boyfriend? Will you be able to help them with the peer pressure to have sex? Will you be ready to address the warning signs of dating violence?
A Matter of Degree - Skipping Class, Truancy and Dropping Out - Every, millions of kids skip school or drop out altogether. But there are vitally important reasons for kids to stay in school.
When Nobody’s Looking - Lying, Cheating, Stealing - In When Nobody's Looking, the latest research shows that cheating is at an all time high. Seven out of 10 students admit to cheating in school and sports - and more than half of them believe it is acceptable.
Behind the Wheel - Driving Safety - When kids get their license, it opens up a world of freedom, and a world of risks. More teens die driving than any other age group.
The Risk Within - Risk Taking - Today, the number-one killer of adolescents is not disease or illness; it is accidental injury, often caused by risky behavior. Kids’ lives depend on the choices they make - choices to drink and drive, to take drugs, to have unprotected sex - or to say no.
A Violent Age - Coping with High School Bullies - These bullying videos from Connect With Kids helps parents talk to their kids about how to cope with high school bullies.
The Power of Expectations - How Expectations Contribute to Success - Research shows that kids who grow up under high expectations do better than kids who don’t. And experts say kids start learning those expectations as babies. What do you expect from your kids? How is it working?
Invisible Weapons - Coping With Children Bullies - Children bullies make school intolerable. This Connect With Kids video helps parent and kids discuss bullying at school.
Legal Drugs, Lethal Highs - Abuse of Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs - The fastest-growing drug abuse among kids ages 12 to 17 is not marijuana, meth or ecstasy... it is the abuse of drugs right in your home medicine cabinet: cold tablets, cough syrup and prescriptions meant for parents’ pains or siblings’ ADD.
Shattered - Drinking and Driving - It’s hard to get teens to really listen when adults talk to them about the dangers of drinking and driving. Your kids will listen to Shattered. The program features true stories from real teens whose lives were drastically changed as a result of drunk driving.
Bright Kids, Bad Grades - Learning Problems and Disabilities - The number of students currently diagnosed with learning disabilities is staggering - nearly three million and growing. Most of these children are bright and eager to learn, but they struggle to keep up in school. They get frustrated, teased, and sometimes labeled as “stupid” or “lazy.”

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