This competency-based secondary learning guide on strengthening parenting skills is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve problems; establish personal goals; communicate effectively; and apply management skills to situations faced as an individual, family member, student, and worker. Each learning guide includes the following sections: a general introduction and guidelines for using the material; a checklist for users for advance planning; introduction to the guide; specified competencies, with student outcomes/evaluations, definitions, key ideas, teacher strategies/methods, suggested student activities, sample assessments, and supplementary resources. Five competencies are addressed: determine expectations in the motor/physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social development of adolescents; describe ways to assist adolescents in their development; identify differences in family situations that affect parenting; identify appropriate methods of coping with stress; and investigate supportive services available to parents. Thirteen supplements contain information and activity sheets on the following: developmental expectations (13-18 years), minute dramas, case studies, one-parent families, and stress. A bibliography contains 29 items. (YLB)