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Recommended Websites

These websites contain activities to do with your children, articles about various parenting topics, and other resources that may be useful to you.

Born Learning
Born Learning is a national public engagement campaign that will help parents and caregivers learn how everyday moments can be turned into quality learning moments. Doing the laundry, making dinner, and grocery shopping are all opportunities for your child to learn more about his/her world. Visit this website for more information and additional activities!

Discovery Channel School
This website contains fresh ideas for parents and teachers to enhance learning in topics from astrology to technology.

Earlychildhood.com
The Activities and Curriculum section of this website contains activities for parents and caregivers to do with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school age children to help them learn more about the world around them and develop skills necessary for school. New activities are posted each month.

Familyresource.com
This website contains articles about subjects such as parenting, relationships, health, and finance. Article topics include everything from “Getting Your Baby to Sleep” and “How to Get Children to Cooperate” to “Talking to Your Children About Terrorism and War”.

The National Parenting Center
The “Articles” section of this website contains brief articles from the National Parenting Center’s newsletter, “ParenTalk”. The articles cover the stages from pregnancy through adolescence. Some topics include “Questions & Answers about Newborns”, “How Your Infant Learns”, and “Stimulating Your Preschooler’s Language Development”.

Zero to Three
This website has resources for both parents and professionals to help ensure a child’s happy and healthy development. Highlights for parents include: parenting tip of the week, Parenting A-Z (articles and resources to help parents deal with issues from aggression to toilet training), and Brain Wonders (a resource to help parents understand what’s going on in their child’s stage of development and ways to support this development).