VIDEO LIBRARY

All of the videos listed below are available from the ACS video lending library for you to check out and watch at home. They have been designed to help your children with real world problems and situations. Each program includes a guidebook with questions, etc. to help you and your children to better understand the lessons.

Elementary School Years:

• Cooperation: Children learn that cooperation is a basic life skill that helps us work successfully in groups and interact successfully with others.
• Being Responsible: Children learn that being a responsible person makes us feel good about ourselves and makes other people respect and appreciate us.
• Dealing With Feelings: Children learn about emotions and how to honestly recognize what they are feeling.
• Saying no: Children learn that sometimes we have to say 'No" to friends and ways to do it effectively and nicely.
• Doing the Right Thing: Children will discover that doing what's right feels better than doing what they can get away with.
• Dealing With Disappointment: Children will learn how to keep perspective and handle disappointments in a positive way.
• Appreciating Yourself: Children will learn that being themselves is a lot better than pretending to be something they're not.
• Asking for Help: Children will learn not to let pride/embarrassment get in the way of asking for help to overcome their problems.
• Being Friends: Children will learn about the complex nature of friendship and how to be a good friend.
• Resolving Conflicts: Children will discover that there are ways to resolve disagreements without fighting.

Middle School Years:

• The Three Rs of Growing Up: Introduces young viewers to the three R's of growing up: Responsibility, Respecting ourselves and doing the Right thing.
• You and Your Values: Reviews internal factors such as values and beliefs and external factors such as clothes, hairstyles, etc.
• Enhancing Self-Esteem: Impresses on young people the fact that every one of them is important and worthy.
• Setting and Achieving Goals: Shows kids the benefits of learning to set and achieve both short and long-term' goals.
• Dealing With Pressure: Discusses the pressures that middle school children experience.
• Handling Emotions: Discusses positive, healthy ways of expressing feelings, including anger, and coping with unpleasant feelings related to young adolescent's physical changes and development.
• Preventing and Resolving Conflicts: Encourages the basics of conflict resolution: listening to others and stating opinions clearly.
  Saying 'No' to Alcohol and Other Drugs: Presents and reinforces and-drug attitudes while teaching practical techniques for saying 'No" to friends without appearing to be 'uncool."
• Speaking of Sex: Gives the message that abstinence from sexual activity is normal and desirable at their age.
• Friendship: Provides a basis for forming quality peer relationships; discusses the characteristics of good friendship, preventing trouble in friendships, handling changes in friendships.
• Getting Along with Parents: Encourages kids to keep the lines of communication open so can make tough choices with parental advice, support and love.
• Respecting Others: Makes the point that every person is entitled to respect, regardless of size, shape, appearance, popularity, race, national origin, disability, etc.

High School Years:

• The Power of Choice: How to be a V.I.P by using Vision, Initiative and Perspective as tools for making the best choices.
  Acting on Your Values: Knowing what you value is the key to making choices that are right for you.
• Self-Esteem: What is Self-esteem? What does it do for you? How can you get it?
• Coping with Pressure: How to handle pressure in ways that serve your best interest.
• Drugs and Alcohol, part I: Honest look at making hard choices in life.
• Drugs and Alcohol, part II: What to do when someone you care about is hooked.
• Drinking and Driving: How to avoid drunk driving predicaments and still be cool.
• Sex: How to make choices tonight that you can live with tomorrow.
• Friendship and Dating: How to create and maintain quality relationships
• Depression and Suicide: What to do if someone you care about is at risk.
• Communication with Parents: What you can do to help parents listen and understand.
• Raising Your Parents: How you can make your relationship with your parents work better.

Parenting Issues:

• So You're Going to be a Parent: Prepares parents-to-be for changes in everything from schedules to financial responsibilities.
• Child Management: Through proven techniques, humor and dramatized examples, addresses child discipline.
• The Art of Communication: Presents methods to achieve effective parent/child communication.
• School Days: For parents who wish to help their children reach their highest potential; deals with parent's role and what can be expected from the educational system.
• Adolescence: Helps parents deal with this trying time in their child's life.
• Single Parenting: Focuses on ways to minimize the adverse effects divorce or death may have on children.
• Teenage Pregnancy: Provides teenagers with a realistic picture of the responsibilities of raising a child in the 90's.
• Blended Families: Yours, Mine and Ours: Addresses parent and child concerns about a newly acquired family life style.
• Handling, Diapering & Dressing: Parents learn safe and comfortable ways to lift, hold and carry, dress their babies, and more.
• Calming the Baby: Specific techniques for coping with a fussy baby.
• When Your Baby is Sick: Clear demonstration of taking axillary and rectal temperature, use of bulb syringe, and more.
• Safe & Sound: Help parents understand how to create a safe environment for an infant.
• Play Time: Demonstrates simple, enjoyable activities for parents to share with their infants.
• Bath Time: Step-by-step approach to bathing a baby in a safe, comfortable and convenient manner.
• Spanking: What To Do Instead: Presents four parent/child situations that often lead to the use of corporal punishment.
• Secret Wounds: Children who witness family violence, but are not direct victims of the violence, may be forgotten.
• One Hit Leads to Another: Stimulates discussion and destroy common myths surrounding the issue of wife assault.
• What Hurts: Emotional abuse has the greatest and longest lasting effect when delivered by a child's parent.
• Child Abuse Prevention-A guide for Adults: A child's protection against sexual abuse - communication between parent and child.
• Come in From the Storm: Series on child abuse covers physical abuse in the video titled "The Diary," sexual abuse in "The Necklace," and emotional abuse in 'China Doll."
• Strong Kids, Safe Kids: Helps parents to teach their children to stop molestation or abduction before it starts.