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Nutrition for kids: Helping children get off to a good start
What does healthy nutrition for kids look like? In this article we discuss how childhood shapes brain development, metabolism, and overall health. And how to give our children a great start.
A Family Affair: The Science Behind Creating Culinary Masterpieces With Your Young Chef
It's no secret that the home-cooked meal — especially those cooked by parents and their children — is becoming a thing of the past. Last year, less than 60% of dinners were cooked at home. In the face of work and school trips and homecoming games, many parents favor the convenience of carry-out and delivery over cooking at home, especially when it comes to big families. But what if we told you there were a way to cook with your kids and get invaluable benefits for your entire family?
Explaining Special Needs For Your Child - 15 Great books
15 great books that you can read to your child or classroom that will help explain special needs to children.
Motivating Kids to Be Active
Anyone who’s seen kids on a playground knows that most are naturally physically active and love to move around. But what might not be apparent is that climbing to the top of a slide or swinging from the monkey bars can help lead kids to a lifetime of being active.
How to Create an Autism-Friendly Environment for Kids
All parents have to worry about basic childproofing, but when you have a child on the autism spectrum, there are crucial additional precautions to take. Creating an autism-aware environment isn’t just a way to keep your child safe, it’s about creating an environment your child can thrive in. This guide will discuss the most important modifications to consider in your home, from the bedroom to the kitchen to the common areas.
Minding the Kids in Divorce: Minimizing the Mental Health Impact
With up to half of marriages in the U.S. ending in divorce – and rates of divorce higher for subsequent marriages – many children face challenges from their parents’ split that can follow them for a lifetime, including into their own relationships as adults.
Mental Illness in Children
Mental illness in children facts.
- Mental disorders in children are quite common, occurring in about one-quarter of this age group in any given year.
- The most common childhood mental disorders are anxiety disorders, depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The parents’ guide to decluttering as children grow
This guide will help you create a tidier home and the best habits to keep it that way, whether you’re a new parent or have several children already.
Children's Health Environmental Coalition
***Please pass this site on to your loved ones!!!! Their ultimate goal is to eliminate children's exposure to man-made toxic substances by ensuring everyone's right-to-know what is in their air, food, water and commercial products. They are working to achieve this goal through increased scientific research, government policies which are more protective of children, and educating and mobilizing individuals like you around the country.
PTO Today
Founded June 1, 1999, PTO Today, Inc. has quickly established itself in the center of the parent group world as a valuable resource for parent group leaders and as a reliable connection between those leaders and parent group marketers. With a focus on providing the expertise parent group leaders need and the programs and services that can help those parent group leaders help their schools, PTO Today has built the only connection to all K-8 parent group leaders, regardless of parent group acronym.
Kids Eat Great
How to Get Kids to Eat Great and Love It! Challenges, Consequences and Actions
Teach Me To Talk
Helping parents and professional teach toddlers to understand and use language
Developing Sleep Schedule for Blind Children
This family shares how their Sleep Pathologist helped to create a better sleep pattern.
Limited Mobility Exercises
Exercise successfully with limited mobility, illness, or weight problems,
Today's Parent
At Todaysparent.com you'll find a parenting community to call your own, with a library of information on all the ages and stages of your growing family, fun tools and features, discussion forums to swap advice with other parents, and contests that give you the chance to win fantastic prizes.
Childcare.gov
Your official source for all U.S. government child care information.
National Organizations for Youth Safety
The mission of NOYS is to promote youth empowerment and leadership, and build partnerships that save lives, prevent injuries and enhance safe and healthy lifestyles among all youth.
Stand Up for Kids
The mission of STANDUP FOR KIDS is to help homeless and street kids. We do this, every day, in cities across America. We carry out our mission through our volunteers who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives.
Taking Children Seriously
Taking Children Seriously, TCS, is a worldwide parenting movement and educational philosophy based upon the idea that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without either doing anything to them against their will, or making them do anything against their will.
Experiland
This website has amazing eBooks for fun science projects you can do with your children. Highly recommended!