Parents, Caregivers & Community

10 Tips for Parents To Help Their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy This resource lists ten tips for parents to help their children avoid teen pregnancy.

A to Z - Home's Cool A large, well organized site from the former MINING COMPANY homeschool guide.

ABC's of Parenting Parenting and pregnancy index with reviews of thousands of sites, articles on child, infant, health and women's issues. Great shopping and gift ideas and links.

ABC's of Safe and Healthy Child Care An online safety handbook for child care providers on how to deal with various illnesses.

AD/HD Diagnostic Rating Scale Criteria used to diagnose AD/HD.

America Reads Summer Reading Program The America Reads Challenge has several tools to help children exercise their minds during the summer months.

American Association for Gifted Children Current news and resources. Book lists. How to identify a gifted child.

American Council for the Blind This service provides general information about the Council, including recent issues of our monthly publication, The Braille Forum.

American Foundation for the Blind Resources include services, publications and community information.

Ask Eric InfoGuide to Autism This InfoGuide is an on-line bibliographic resource to aid in the research of autism, including different educational techniques related to the disability and legal developments that have assisted people affected by autism.

Blindness Resource Center New York Institute for Special Education has lots of excellent resources.

Building Your Child's Brain This resource discusses brain growth and provides guidelines for stimulating intellectual growth in young children.

Bully Proofing This resource suggests ways parents can bully proof their children.

Can Do An ability focused web site dedicated to helping all people develop a "can-do" attitude and approach to life... no matter what the obstacles.

Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers Canadian links, and homeschooling articles that you won't find elsewhere.

Child & Family Web Guide Created by a team at Tufts University, this new metasite offers categorized links to sites that contain research-based information about child development. At present, the collection of sites is quite modest, but all are high-quality resources.

Dealing with Defiance This resource suggests ways of dealing with persistent defiant behavior.

Divorce and Its Effect on Children This resource discusses divorce and its effects on children.

Educate the Children Educate the Children - Primary Education - Lesson plans, worksheets, interactive resources, all linked to the National Curriculum and QCA documentation. For pupils, parents and teachers.

Encarta Resources For Interactive Learning This site contain resources that teachers, students, and parents can find very valuable. They include such things as an online encyclopedia, atlas, and dictionary.

Families Learning Together An article from Connect for Kids about Families learning together.

Family.com New families, big families, extended families, nuclear families-Family.com is your comprehensive online source for fun, activities and expert advice. Join the Family.com community where you'll find information on parenting, health, education and more!

FBI's Parent's Guide to Internet Safety Here are the detailed safety tips.

For Home Schooling Offers a variety of educational materials and class room supplies.

Good Health Means Better Learners This resource identifies factors that could adversely affect a child's school performance.

Hello Friend: The Ennis William Cosby Foundation This Web site is dedicated to Ennis Cosby and the cause to find out how children can learn better.

Home Schooling Homework Features daily vocabulary, spelling, geography, history, and word search puzzle activities. Also includes a teacher guide.

Homeschool World Columns from Practical Homeschooling magazine, and one of the biggest and best list of homeschooling organizations on the Web.

Internet Resources for Special Children The IRSC web site is dedicated to communicating information relating to the needs of children with disabilities on a global basis.

K8ait Self Paced Internet Tutorial This is the place for very beginning computer users. From clicking the mouse, to scrolling, tutorial users learn the terminology, browser use, email, and uses of the Web.

Kids and Learning at Home School and Beyond You've probably heard the mantra, "kids who read succeed," but how do you get a busy teen to put down the remote and pick up a book? The American Library Association created these tips for connecting teens with books.

Kids Connect- Tips for Parents 700+ Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them.

KidSource Online KidSource offers in-depth children’s education and health care information and includes articles, discussion forums, and more. It also includes extensive sections on K-12 education and early learning.

Learning Optimism This resource discusses research that found continued pessimistic thinking in children was one of the early signs of more serious depression.

Lewis & Clark Education Center For students and teachers alike. Using satellite photographs, historical journals and other advanced techniques, the center aims at giving new perspectives to students of the Lewis & Clark journey. An advanced site!

National Association for Down Syndrome This not-for-profit organization, was founded in Chicago in 1961 by parents of children with Down syndrome who felt a need to create a better environment and bring about understanding and acceptance of people with Down syndrome.

National Association for Gifted Children Organizational information, parent resources, and news.

National Center of Sleep Disorders Research Information about various sleep disorders.

National Parenting Center Providing parents with information on raising children: Starting with pregnancy and birth, information about your baby and toddler through teen.

NCPAD National Center on Physical Activity and Disability has fact sheets, slideshows, videos newsletter, searchable database and links to other resources.

net.Tutor Find a great collection of tutorials on Internet tools, search skills, research and evaluation skills, and more. This is ready to use for staff development!

Parent Smart Check out this site for parents of school-age children.

Parent-Teacher Conference Strategies Strategies to help teachers communicate with parents.

ParenTech ParenTech brings together the latest research, inspiring stories, practical tips, and places to go to learn more—all in a parent-friendly kit of resources.

Parenting Resources for the 21st Century The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention provides an online guide that covers the full spectrum of parenting.

Parents Have Greatest Influence This resource addresses the impact of parental behavior on that of their teenage children.

Parents Make a Difference Adolescents may say that they rely more on friends than on family but studies have found that these same kids would prefer to learn about important topics from their parents or other caring adults.

Parents' Guide to the Internet U.S. Department of Education. "This Parents Guide to the Internet is intended to help parents make use of the online world as an important educational tool. An introduction to the Internet and how to navigate it."

Practical money skills for life Where is the best place to learn money skills-at school, at home, or in the real world, where you get a $25 fee if your payment is late? This web site supports teachers, parents, students, and consumers in learning about all aspects of managing money.

Practical Parenting Offers parenting tips on a wide range of child behavior problems. Also includes advice to professionals who want to run a parenting group.

Pre-K Smarties Learn how to teach your gifted child and find out about special practices used to help you in your quest for rearing children.

Preventing Reading difficulties in Young Children A report on preventing reading difficulties in young children.

Read by Grade 3 - Parental Tips This page has links to pages with tips for parents in helping their children read.

SERI Gifted and talented resources.

Single Parent Central Resources for single parent families. Childcare and child support info as well as other helpful resources.

Smartparent.com This is a resource dedicated to educating parents on the best ways to safeguard their children from the dangers presented by cyberspace. Find tips and information about filtering software

Successful Home Schooling Includes information on choosing curriculum, socialization, teaching teens, and more.

Surfing the Net with Kids The best of the Web for kids, reviewed by nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Barbara J. Feldman. Each weekly column features five fabulous Web sites on topics as diverse as Gargoyles, Monarch Butterflies and Stock Market Simulations.

Teacher's Center On The EduWeb Visit this site on the EduWeb for helpful ideas on how to teach your kids at home!

The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children Characteristics, problems in schools, legal info.

The Parents' Guide to the Information Highway Available in English and Spanish, this very extensive and complete guide addresses all the relevant issues of getting children online at school and at home and why it is important.

The Wonderwise Parent This site, on parenting and parent-child relationships, is designed for parents, grandparents, foster parents, stepparents, caregivers, teachers, and parent educators. It was created and is maintained by Dr. Charles A. Smith, extension specialist .

Your Homework.com Check out how you can create technologically advanced students!