Here are some web pages to help children through many of life's problems and some FUN pages to explore too!
Sanctuary is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.But we believe the sites have useful information even when we don't agree with everything they have to say.
Alcohol and Drugs |
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| Kid's Page | This page gives you information on what to do if your parents are drinking heavily, and how to deal with it | |
| Alcohol and Drug Facts | This is a multimeida website withpresentations for teens on different drugs - alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamines, cocaine, etc... | |
| Kid's Area | Gives you information on how to say no, how to explore the internet safely, and on how to ask questions related to drugs and alcohol and get answers | |
| Alcohol Can Hurt | This website is a place to learn how alcohol and drugs hurt people and their families | |
| Alcohol and Drug Info | This website is filled with inforation for teens about alcohol and drugs . It is an easy to read webpage done in a question and answer format | |
| The Science of Alcohol | This is a fun scientific website about alcohol, its history, effects of alcohol, and lots of other intersting info with LOTS of useful science links | |
| Just for Kids | A fun page for kids to explore issues around alcohol and health. It is full of fun activities, interesting facts, FREE STUFF, and more | |
| Tobacco Facts | A really fun site to learn all about tobacco, smoking and tobacco related diseases. Full of fun games, gross pictures and cool links | |
Divorce |
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| Dealing with Divorce | Gives you some information about divorce and how to deal and talk to your parents about it | |
| Kids Turn | This site is full of helpful questions and answers, activities, articles, artwork and lots of other info about divorce | |
| Get Your Angries Out | This site is full of a whole ton of fun games and activities that help you understand, and get your feelings out. It also has stuff that your parents can do to get THEIR angries out | |
Violence/Abuse |
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| Bullying | This website talks about bullying in and around your school. It talks about bullying by taking a look at what kids like you had to say in a survey | |
| Dealing With Bullies | This webpage talks about bullies, who they are, and how to deal with them | |
| Family Fighting | This webpage talks about families that fight. It gives you info on parents that fight, siblings that fight, and other helpful information, and it also gives you tips on what to do when your family fights | |
Self-Esteem |
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| The Land of CYKE | Hey kids! Welcome to the Land of CYKE, a super fun place filled with brain teasers, |
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| Feeling Sad | This page talks about what sadness is, and what to do when you're feeling sad | |
| Food and Nutrition | ||
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| Fun Recipes | This page has a TON of fun, yummy and easy to make recipes like ants on a log, smoothies, pretzels, popsicles, pizzas and more! | |
| Dole 5 a Day | This is a super fun and colorful site filled with TONS of really cool games (puzzles, comics, coloring, mazes, detective games), surveys, facts, cookbooks and more | |
| Nutrition Explorations | This is another fun site with lots of games (mazes, monsters, nutrition trackers) , recipes, CONTESTS and food facts | |
| Recipes for Kids | This website has hundreds of fun, yummy and easy to make recipes, from home made animal crackers, pink clouds, to yoghurt pops; from breakfast to lunch to dinner and dessert recipies. You can find almost any recipe imaginable on this webpage! | |
Homework |
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| Homework Help Tools | This webpage gives you links to tons of resources that can help you with doing your homework. There are links to encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotation websites, and much much more | |
| More Homework Help | This webpage is filled with different articles and resources that can help you with your homework. It has help for specific subjects like help with grade one reading, or help with science projects, plus lots of links to other helpful homework pages | |
Grief |
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| Griefworks Kids | This website gives kids like you tips on what to do if someone you know dies. It has different activities to do on the website and also has lists of things to do by yourself, with your parents or with other people you know to help you deal with your grief | |
| Griefworks Teens | This site is for teens who have experienced a death, either in their family, their friendship group or in their community . It talks all about what grief is, how to deal with it, what to do to help yourself and others, and much more | |
Depression and Suicide |
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| Kids Help Phone Online | This site explains what Kids Help Phone is, why it is there and what to expect when you call. The site also has an online library where you can look up things like, suicide, depression, and other information. There is also the option of talking ONLINE with one of their counsellors, or posting questions on their message boards | |
| 9 Ways to Help a Suicidal Person | This site gives you nine specific ways to help someone who may be feeling suicidal. It also has a helpful list of warning signs around depression and suicide | |
Health and Stress |
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| How to Handle Stress | This site is full of great ideas to help you to stop feeling stressed out. It talks about what happens when you feel stressed, what to do about it, and gives you tips on how to relax | |
| Health Just For Kids | This site is filled with games and activities and info about health issues like asthma, diabetes, radiation therapy, how your body works, safety tips, and lots more |
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Sexuality |
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| For Young People | This site answers and questions you'd want to know about sexuality, with LOTS of helpful resources, links and people you can talk to about the subject | |
| SXETC | This is a website for teens by teens that talks about everything from health to sexuality to sexual orientation, body image and more. It has answers to almost any questions that you can think of, from a teen perspective | |
| Teen wire | This website is put together by Planned Parenthood and gives you access to many resources and answers a lot of sexuality based questions. It is colorful, easy to read and super teen friendly | |
Fun & Games |
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| Store Wars | Do you like Starwars? Then you'll LOVE this grocery store spoof, featuring Cuke Skywalker, Ham Solo, Darth Tater, Tofu D2 and all of your favorite Storewars heros in an epic battle of the Organic Revolution! | |
| Candy Stand | Here is a page just for you! It has tons of fun games like pool, motorcross, puzzles, arcade games, and team player games | |
| Frog Guts | If you like frogs and want to know more about what they have inside, visit this site, where you can dissect a really real looking frog, online! | |
Some web sites for parents.
Alcohol and Drugs |
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| Tips for parents if your children are doing drugs | Gives you tips for helping or dealing with your children who are doing drugs |
| Signs and Symptoms | Gives you signs and symptoms to look for if you child is drinking or doing drugs |
| Alcohol Abuse | Gives you information about alcohol and what it does to you and tells you what dependency means |
| Drug Abuse | Gives you information on drugs and alcohol and where to get the specified help. Just by clicking on the drug on the left side of the page |
| Quitting Smoking | Smokefree.gov descriptionThis is a great resource for anyone who is thikning about or trying to quit smoking. It is filled with helpful information, facts, and also has a link where you can talk with an expert online. |
Violence/Abuse |
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| Mental Health | Gives you tips and suggestions to help you provide for your children's physical safety and well-being |
| ACT | Gives you tips and strategies to help prevent violence,conflict in your children |
| Family Education | This site has a variety of different articles on issues around youth and violence. Some examples of articles you might find are warning signs of violence , reasons for violence, and who is violent. This site also contains message boards where you can talk to other parents about issues around violence |
| Talking About Violence | This is an excellent reference site that gives you step by step pointers on how to talk to your children about violence and how to help them deal with violence. |
Parenting |
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| Positive ways to Discipline | Gives you tips on how to positively discipline you child |
| Ways to Build Self Esteem | Gives you tips on how to raise or maintain your child's self-esteem |
| Positive Parenting | Gives a list of different parenting topics |
| Parenting Tips Homepage | This is the Queen Bee of parenting tips websites. It breaks down parenting based on the child's age. You can find tips on babies, toddlers, kids, teens, and even family parenting |
| Keeping Kids Healthy | This site has tips on different aspects of parenting, from health and nutrition, to discipline, safety and much more |
| Parenting for Dads | This website is designed to help fathers be involved with their children. It has tools for becoming more involved, a chatroom, a question and answer section, and more. |
Divorce |
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| Divorce | Gives parents a list of ten ways to help your children through a divorce |
| Surviving a Divorce | Gives you information on how to survive your divorce |
| Help with Divorce | Gives you things to do and not to do with your children during your divorce |
| Children and Divorce | This website is filled with tips for telling your children about your divorce, reducing their stress, handling their reactions to stress, adjusting to a new living situation and much, much more. |
| Divorce Info | This is another very useful and easy to read site about helping your children through divorce. It gives some basic pointers to making your children's lives easier throughout the divorce, how to deal with their anger and anxiety, and it also provides a great deal of other resources to help ease your children's transition through your divorce. |
Single Parenting | |
| Single Parenting | Gives you tips for being a single parent |
Co-Dependency |
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| Co-Dependency | Gives signs and symptoms of co-dependency |
Grief and Loss |
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| Grief and Loss | Gives you tips on how to talk to your children about grief and loss |
| Childrens Grief | This website provides information on complicated grief, circumstances under which it might occur, as well as activities and stories that deal with complicated grief |
| Ages and Stages of Grief | This site does an excellent job of describing how children at different ages might experience grief and loss. It provides a chart that explains how children from ages 0-12 will understand loss, how they will behave after a loss and ways that you can help them deal with this loss |
| Helping Children Cope With Loss | This site provides you with signs of grieving in both children and adolescents, with tips on how to help them grieve and resources you can access for further support |
| Griefworks | This site gives you information on all different types of loss, from loss of a child, to loss of a parent, grandparent, pet, co-worker and more. It provides chatrooms to allow you to contact other people with similar experiences, as well as a multitude of other grief information |
Depression and Suicide |
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| If You are Feeling Suicidal: READ ME | If you or someone you know is feeling suicidal, PLEASE take five minutes to read this webpage, it could change your life |
| Depression | This site contains tons of information about depression, from statistics, facts, symptoms, and more |
| Suicide and Self-Harm | This is a site with facts, symptoms, and treatment information about suicide and self harm, as well as a lot of other information and resources |
| Suicide Prevention | Though this site is a little confusing, for FAQ or stats on suicide, click on English, then click on the "If you or someone you know is feeling suicidal..." link and lick Canada, then either FAQ or Stats |
| Talk to a Therapist-ONLINE | If you would like to talk to someone in a non-invasive envirionment, check out this website. It will link you up to several organizations that will provide therapist/counselling services online |
| Suicide Info | This site provides information on crisis intervention, counselling, treatment and more |
Sexuality |
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| Talking about Sexuality | Gives you tips on how to raise your child's awareness about gay and lesbians, and gives you tips on how to protect your child from bullying |
| Teen Sexuality-Parent's Page | This webpage has information on sexuality education, communication tips for talking about sexuality with your teens, a question and answer column, and a few other helpful resources |
| Talking With Kids | This website talks about exploring your own attitudes to sexuality, and steps to take when you want/need to talk to your kids about sexuality. This site also has some question and answer sections as well as some sections with tips |
Personality Test |
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| Human Metrics | Gives you a test and information about what personality type you are |
Health |
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| Healthy Kids | This website has lots of health and nutrition tips, healthy snacks, a food guide pyramid for adults AND one for kids, along with food safety and tons of other articles around health and nutrition |
| Kids and Health | This site is a really simple and easy to read site about all different aspects of health. It has information on infections, emotions and behavior, nutrition and fitness, medical problems, first aid and saftey and much more |
Stress |
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| Coping Skills | This site is all about coping skills. It covers topics such as what children need, what parents can do, building self-control, and several other topics |
| Parenting Can Be Stressful | This site has tips on dealing with your anger, behaviors that can trigger your anger, and many related articles on parenting and stress |
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