Great New Beginnings | Early Childhood Learning Center

Links & Resources for Parents

Because our little ones do not come with an instruction manual, we find it necessary to sometimes refer to other resources for answers to our everyday questions and concerns. We have compiled a list of resources that may be helpful and guide you in the right direction.

Child Care and Development, Education, and Parenting
Health and Safety
Infants and Toddlers
Language and Literacy
Providers of School Age Care
For School-Age Children

Child Care and Development, Education, and Parenting

How to Negotiate With Kids
www.negotiatewithkids.com
Parents will find Scott Brown's advice easy to understand and readily applicable to everyday situations from getting kids to eat their veggies, to negotiating a curfew.

123 Child
www.123child.com
Over 650 activities and discussions on topics of interest

Awesome Library
www.awesomelibrary.org
A terrific search engine for lots of topics, including education and parenting

Early Childhood Educators and Family Web Corner
users.sgi.net/~cokids
Good site for child care/early childhood teachers and parents: articles, family and teacher pages and a search engine.

Explorescience.com
www.explorescience.com
Activities to do without becoming a member as well as sharing course homepages with other teachers -- mostly for school age.

Families and Work Institute
www.familiesandwork.org
This site offers Families and Work Institute news, executive summaries of their most popular publications, a publications "shopping cart", and a community mobilization forum.

Family.Com
www.family.com
Disney's family web site with a wide variety of information about children from birth through teenage years including health information, activity suggestions, and parent information.

National Parent Information Network
npin.org
Clearinghouse on early childhood development, elementary education and urban education.

Natural Child Project
www.naturalchild.com
Interesting site with a point of view about how children should be raised with respect for their natural abilities and humanity. Includes advice, articles, and other features.

Pampers Parenting Institute with T.Barry Brazelton
www.pampers.com/en_US/learning/ppi/jhtml/index.jhtml
Designed to answer questions about caring for infants the first year of life with information from Dr. Brazelton, probably the foremost expert on parenting infants.

Parents.Com
www.parents.com
Developmental checklist, email an expert, pediatrician finder, and other useful information.

Parents Place
www.parentsplace.com
Has daily features, topic specific chats, activities, children's health information, pregnancy information and much more.

Parent Soup
www.parentsoup.com
Advice, parenting information, discussion groups, and bulletin boards for parents of children of any age.

PBS Parents
www.pbs.org/parents/siteguide
"A service for grown ups who care about children" that helps parents and caregivers who use television with children make the most of public broadcasting programs.

Sesame Street on Line/Children's Television Workshop
www.ctw.org
This page has printable coloring pages of sesame street characters and other activities for kids.

U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
Variety of research and information for parents and child care providers.

Child Care Professionals
www.earlyeducationforall.org
The goal of the Early Education for All Campaign, an initiative of Strategies for Children Inc., is to make high quality early childhood education available to all Massachusetts children, ages three through five. To achieve this goal, the Campaign is building a broad-based constituency across the state to help make early childhood a top public policy priority and to advocate for a legislative proposal, "An Act Establishing Early Education for All"(H.1838/S.239), filed on December 4, 2002.

Awesome Library
www.awesomelibrary.org
A terrific search engine for lots of topics, including education and parenting.

Child Care Aware
www.childcareaware.org
Sponsored by National Association of Child Care Referral Agencies (NACCRA), Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC), and the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC). The web site has links to child care provider resources, tips on choosing care and ways to measure quality.

National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
www.nafcc.org
Information on Family Child Care Associations throughout the country and family child care accreditation.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
www.naeyc.org
Information on NAEYC's mission and goals, membership, itemized catalog of all NAEYC publications, public policy issues, and conference schedule and registration.

National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
nccic.org
NCCIC's web site provides information for each state in its "state profiles" section. There is information on demographics, staff child ratios, staff qualifications, and useful contacts such as the appropriate state child abuse reporting agency, licensing liaison, child care food program administrator and links to each state's home page. The web page also provides information relating to child care research, funding resources, and White House initiatives.

National Network for Childcare
www.nncc.org
A variety of information on over 25 specific topics including child development, nutrition, activities, and books. Section of this site is dedicated to serving child care and related professionals: (http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/nccic/orgs/orglist.aspx).

Welcome to the White House
The official website for the White House and The President of the United States.
www.whitehouse.gov

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Health and Safety

American Association of Poison Control (AAPCC)
www.aapcc.org
This web site has a massive list of poison control facilities throughout the United States, along with educational resources and prevention tips.

Consumer Product Safety Commission
www.cpsc.gov
The web site lists recent recalls, allows you to search for topics, and has information on current events regarding safety.

Dr. Greene's House Calls
www.drgreene.com
A good, easy to use, source of health information.

Kids Health/Nemours Foundation
www.kidshealth.org
Expert information about children's health.

Kids Source Online
www.ddc.com/napnotes
A great source of links to health, education, and parenting sites.

kidsDoctor
www.kidsdoctor.com
Managed by a pediatrician: "Think of kidsDoctor as a 24 hour a day source for what every parent needs to know about keeping our kids healthy."

Mayo Health Clinic
www.mayohealth.org
Information available on a variety of health topics with a special section for parenting and child health.

National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN)
http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/index.cfm
This organization serves as a clearinghouse on child abuse and neglect information. (800) 394-3366.

National Health Information Center (NHIC)
www.healthfinder.gov
This organization serves as a health information resource that puts people in touch with the public or private organization that can best deal with the person's concern.

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
nrc.uchsc.edu
This organization can answer questions regarding any health and safety concern. They have a full time resource librarian on staff to research specific topics and locate relevant articles or studies free of charge.

On Health
www.onhealth.com
Ask experts or search out information on a variety of health related topics. Information regarding physical and social development from birth through the teenage years - Includes helpful charts on what to expect from doctor visits at different stages.

SIDS Network
sids-network.org
A clearinghouse of information on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
Variety of research and information for parents and child care providers.

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Infants and Toddlers

I am Your Child
www.iamyourchild.org
Great source of information about early childhood development birth to three yours old for caregivers and parents. Good links to other resources.

Pampers Parenting Institute with T.Barry Brazelton www.pampers.com/en_US/learning/ppi/jhtml/index.jhtml
Designed to answer questions about caring for infants the first year of life with information from Dr. Brazelton, probably the foremost expert on parenting infants.

Zero to Three National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
www.nafcc.org
Information on Family Child Care Associations throughout the country and family child care accreditation.

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Language and Literacy

Children's Writing
www.zen.org~brendan/kids.html
Children write stories and post them for everyone to read.

Classroom Connect
www.classroom.net
"A site for k-12 teachers and students" with good lists of resources and good links.

Gryphon House Books
www.ghbooks.com
Early childhood books and information, new titles, featured books, reading activities and a special section for infants and toddlers.

International Reading Association
www.reading.org
An organization devoted to promoting literacy.

National Parent Information Network
npin.org
Clearinghouse on elementary and early childhood development and urban education.

PBS Ready to Learn
www.pbs.org/learn/rtl
"A service for grown ups who care about children" that helps parents and caregivers who use television with children make the most of public broadcasting programs.

Reading is Fundamental
www.rif.org
Lots of literacy and early literacy activities.

U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov
Variety of research and information for parents and child care providers

wordcentral.com
www.wordcentral.com
Kids site for Merriam Webster. Learn new words, hear pronunciations, and have fun.

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Providers of School Age Care

Atozkidsstuff.com
www.atozkidsstuff.com
Fun activity ideas for preschool to School-age.

EduHound
www.eduhound.com
Links to everything for education, K - 12. Also available in Spanish.

National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
www.nafcc.org
Information on Family Child Care Associations throughout the country and family child care accreditation. National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)nccic.orgNCCIC's web site provides information for each state in its "state profiles" section. There is information on demographics, staff child ratios, staff qualifications, and useful contacts such as the appropriate state child abuse reporting agency, licensing liaison, child care food program administrator and links to each state's home page. The web page also provides information relating to child care research, funding resources, and White House initiatives.

National School Age Care Alliance
www.nsaca.org
Information on quality and standards, professional development, public policy, resources, and news and updates.

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For School-Age Children

Central Kindergarten Center
www.edenpr.k12.mn.us/ckc
Good information for early elementary age children

Discovery.com
http://www.discovery.com
From the Discovery channel Activities and homework help.

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