As the 2024-25 school term begins, this is an ideal time to introduce and reintroduce parents and guardians to the ParentingMontana.org website. This website was established in 2018 following a survey of parents throughout Montana. So, this is a program that was developed from the responses of Montana parents and therefore is home grown.
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and Montana State University’s Center for Health and Safety has sponsored the program and continues to update the content.
As I have presented the Parenting Montana website at Kindergarten roundups, parent-teacher conferences and other events, parents will invariably comment: “This is great”, “So easy to use”. The program addresses ages 0-19 and topics pertinent to those ages: risk taking, stress, tantrums, homework, chores, making friends, anger, confidence, routines, bullying, back talk, discipline, conflict, eating – to name a few.
