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Parenting Related Web Sites

Families First
CAPS is the managing partner of Families First. This community partnership brings together key community organizations who are dedicated to supporting parents in those critical years between birth and school.

Early Childhood Meeting Place
The Early Childhood Meeting Place provides access to county-specific and statewide resource information around the areas of community resources and financial assistance, child care and early education, health and safety, and parenting and families.

iVillage Parenting
This web site contains LOTS of great parenting tips from parent educators, as well as other parents. The Ages and Stages section features articles for parents of children from birth to teens. There is also a message board for parents to interact with other parents.

Kids Source
Divided into categories (newborns, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged), this site offers a variety of articles, products and services related to each specific age category, as well as links to other sites. Articles, which are grouped by health, education, recreation, and parenting, use a five-star rating system. Very good information!

Parenthood Web
Parents can subscribe to this free weekly electronic newsletter offered to subscribers. This newsletter allows you to select a topic and read articles on this topic by experts in the field. Parents are invited to add their comments and read other parents' comments in the "forum." In addition, parents can access articles, surveys, and chat with other parents during live and scheduled chats. This site is easily navigable also!

Parent's Guide to the Internet
This Department of Education web page contains a pamphlet to assist and encourage parents to learn the internet so they may help their children develop these same skills. Includes very helpful, step by step information for parents including: a history of the internet, basic computer terms, how to use the internet, and practice examples. There is also a section related to child "safe-surfin" issues. Contains LOTS of links into family fun sites also!

Zero to Three
Zero to Three's web site has both parent and professional sections. In the parent section, there are articles adapted from their bi-monthly bulletin, weekly messages to parents, a guide to helping parents whose child is going through a developmental assessment, information on developmental milestones and more.

Common Sense Parenting
Boys Town and Common Sense Parenting sponsor this web site. The site includes articles for parents, a question and answer section covering a variety of topics, and a link to Boys Town Press to view resources.

Family Education
This site contains general parenting information, as well as, educational topics and activities for parents. It also features message boards for parent questions and newsletters to which parents can subscribe.

Parent's Resource Center
Parents can find fun activities to do with their children on this web site. Activities are available for multiple age groups. This site also lists recipes, links to kid-related sites, and parenting tips for various ages and stages of development. In addition, the site also features a missing children segment which displays photos of missing children.

The National Parenting Center
Parenting authorities (doctors, psychologists, and parenting experts/authors) offer advice for parents. The articles are based on age-specific groups, which offer a variety of advice for children in each stage of development

Sesame Street Parents
This page is produced by Sesame Street, and contains good articles for parents on behavior/discipline, education, family & community, heath, and safety issues. It also has a child development section that allows parents to pick topics related to their child's age range. In addition, it features activities for parents and kids, and a listing of child related product reviews

Parents as Teachers
This web site serves to provide the information, support and encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life.

Civitas
Using the latest research in early childhood development, Civitas produces and distributes practical, easy-to-use tools that assist adults in making the best possible decisions on behalf of children. Equipped with these resources and an enhanced understanding, we can all shape the experiences of children, and therefore our future.

Born Learning
Everyday life is a learning experience for children. Born Learning is a public engagement campaign that helps parents, grandparents, and caregivers explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning opportunities.

Darkness 2 Light
Darkness 2 Light has a mission to diminish the incidence and impact of child sexual abuse, so that more children will grow up healthy and whole. Their programs will raise awareness of the prevalence and consequences of child sexual abuse by educating adults about the steps they can take to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the reality of child sexual abuse.

Adults and Children Together Against Violence
ACT Against Violence has a mission to educate communities and adults to create safe, healthy environments that protects children and youth from violence. The program accomplishes its mission by disseminating research-based information and skills to adults in simple, accessible, user-friendly messages and materials.

The Fatherhood Initiative
National Fatherhood Initiative was created to ensure that every child has what they need to succeed: the love and support of an involved, responsible and committed father. Their mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with an involved, responsible, and committed father.

PBS Parents
Using tools from the programs children know and love, this site will guide parents in the areas of education, development and creative play.

Parenting Counts
The mission of Parenting Counts is to promote successful parenting by making research-based information about raising socially and emotionally healthy children, birth to five, accessible to parents and caregivers through the Parenting Counts family of educational materials.