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Welcome to our Qwik Books and downloadable material. Do you have questions about your troublesome toddler, precocious preschooler, or annoying school-aged child? Would you like help right now? Check out our resources and books below. We have —

downloadable books and summary sheets
an extensive archive of parenting tips and articles
activities for the classroom and Story Hour, and ideas for youth projects
research reviews and presentation plans for professional.

“QWIK Sheets provide a lot of basic general information with the relevant examples that are critically important when working with parents,” reports one parent educator who works with high-risk mothers and fathers who are referred by Children’s Protective Services.

“These publications were easy enough to read and were used at home during a difficult period with one of our children,” one parent writes.

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As another parent writes us, “I love your website. I have it bookmarked and have made several purchases from it. The articles are informative and helpful in managing my 4-year-old and 2- year-old.”

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Qwik Books

Parenting Press’s new QWIK Books are designed so you can print out a booklet with dozens of tips and straightforward explanations of typical parenting issues and a few odd ones.

Qwik Sheets

Our QWIK Sheets provide concise practical ideas or a simple step-by-step guide for handling new or common issues, in an easy-to-read format you can print for everyday reference or e-mail to a worried friend.

Downloadable brochures

Parenting Press offers downloadable brochures on difficult topics or troublesome issues such as children and the internet, talking to your child about war, and using temper tantrums as a teaching tool.

Parenting Tips

You’ll find quick advice about almost every child development issue in our weekly tip and the tip archive. Whether the question is attention span, toilet training or bathroom language, we give you how-to help and suggest where to find more information.

News for Parents

Our monthly newsletter, available online and by e-mail subscription, is full of book reviews, feature stories, family activities and community service projects appropriate for kids. Looking for ideas for a different time of year? Check the “News for Parents” archive, with a dozen back issues ready to print out.

Teacher Activities

Teachers, librarians, home-schoolers and parents: don’t miss the teaching plans, downloadable games and activities. You’ll find everything you need for a story hour, classroom or youth group project!

Parenting Education Practitioners (PEP) Talk

This informative quarterly for professionals is packed with book and research reviews, timely articles, how-to’s from your peers and, in each issue, a step-by-step one-hour presentation ideal for parenting classes. Every issue since Fall 2004 is an instant download.

For Additional Help

Have questions? We have answers! The friendly crew in the Parenting Press office will take your call Monday through Friday 9-3, Pacific time. We’ll help you select the best publications for your family or class and, if you’d like, we’ll walk you through the download process.