Mayo Clinic
The website of the Mayo Clinic contains information about children’s health issues, pregnancy, and family life, all under the Healthy Living Center section. Lots of good articles on a variety of topics.
http://www.m-w.com/
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Partnership For Reading
The Partnership for Reading. This site offers a free booklet that gives advice for parents of children from birth to preschool on how to support reading development at home, and how to recognize preschool and day care activities that start children on the road to becoming readers.
NOMOTC
National Organization of Mothers of Twins Club. This site is for mothers of twins, triplets or other multiple birth children. It contains information/tips of specific interest to these mothers, lists products and publications for parents of multiple birth children, and serves as a clearinghouse for information about local chapters of twin clubs.
Parent Net
Brief parenting articles and parenting tips are provided in this web site. Tips feature a variety of different subjects; however, selection of articles is more limited. It also features an overview of parent related news of the week, a movie review section, and a list of books, although it does not provide a synopsis of any books featured. There is a link section to educator sites and sites that kids can access to receive help in homework.
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.
Center for Effective Parenting
This center has a multitude of resources for parents, teachers, schools, and children on the internet.
Parenting Press
Although mostly a commercial site for ordering books, this site does contain some parenting tips from the various books it features, which cover a variety of topics.
http://www.parentswithoutpartners.org
This is the official site for the Parents Without Partners program. The site directs parents to their local chapter of the program, as well as provides a newsletter, news and events, resources on the net for single parents, and a chat room for members.
National PTA
This site offers information about the National PTA and Parent Involvement. National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations to children.
Reading Rockets
This site provides information about teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle.
Star Fall
The Starfall learn-to-read program was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension. The program is designed to instill confidence and enable the child to proceed as quickly as possible to a balanced reading program.
The National Campaign
Talking with kids about sex and puberty. The national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy offers the factsheet: Ten tips parents can use to reduce the risk of their kids becoming pregnant before they're adults.
Toy Tips
On this site, you will find researched product reviews, articles and tips about children's products to stimulate the intellectual, social, physical and individuals personality development of the child.
http://www.workingmother.com
Designed for mothers who work outside the home, this site offers articles of interest to working mothers, as well as strategies, Q & A, personal stories and links.
Zero To Three
This 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.
Scholastic
Scholastic Parent Guides. A parent and child magazine for preschool, grade school and middle school. You will find information on school and learning, books and reading, activities and family life.
Center For Parent Leadership
The site offers specific advice on what parents should know and be able
to do to work most effectively with schools. Children, Youth and Family Consortium.
Enter The Freudian Slip
Music in Therapy: The Power of Music as a Coping Skill. This site is your source for information on how to help children and adolescents use popular music, something they already listen to and enjoy, as a way to express their feelings.
Factmonster
Offers wonderful help with homework, plus games, facts, and more!
How To Behave
How to Behave (so your children will too). A collection of entertaining stories and practical ideas gathered from
real parents.
KY Housing
Kentucky Housing Corporation. Helpful information about programs for individuals in Kentucky wanting to purchase a home.
School Matters
Do you want to know how your child's school is rated? Find out all of the information about your child's school, such as number of students per teacher, if they made adequate progress in the last year, reading and math proficiencies and more at the School Matters web site.