Useful Links for Parents
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Tips and advice for parents and families by Kim Komando

The Baby Place
The Baby Place, is a starting point for information on pregnancy, birth, and babies. They have many pages of baby-related content plus links to other interesting sites.

Family Fun
A site for family fun ideas. It includes projects, arts and crafts, recipies, raising kids, and holiday ideas for the whole family.

Catalog City
The ultimate site for finding catalogs for everything.

Child Care Information

Associations:
National Association for Family Childcare
5202 Pinemont Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84123
www.nafcc.org

Traveling with children

family.go.com/categories/travel
How to create family routes for a trip, or tours of different factories, or a family vacation on a working farm. All types of deals and family friendly cruises and trips. Also road trips, etc., with some fun car games that can be used daily, for car pooling, traffic jams, and planes, trains and automobiles.

www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/2400
Good site for camping. Checklists, tips, tricks, first aid, etc.

Website for parent library information

KidBibs.com
This is a site for learning for kids by bringing kids and books together.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
A librarian at Cal State, Lisa Bartle, created an excellent site that catalogued thousands of children's books that have received major awards. There is a search engine to retrieve books based on topic, age, etc. Excellent site.

Books:

The Working Parents Handbook, by Kit Kollenberg, June Solnit Sale, with Elen Melinkoff. Fireside Books, 1996
Child care as well as other issues important to parents.

The Unofficial Guide to Childcare, by Ann Douglas. John Way and Sons, 1998. The book gives the and over view of the pros and cons of different child care options. There are tips for parents in making a decision.

Choosing Quality Child Care: The American Red Cross Search Guide, edited by The American Red Cross, American Red Cross Publishing, 2001. Worksheets with questions, and interview ideas for parents.

 

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