TIPS & INFO - Child Care/Parenting
- Sliding into Summer: Easing the Transition for Children
For children, summertime offers special opportunities as well as challenges...
- A Guide to a Safe Child Care Environment
When choosing quality child care, the initial telephone screening should be followed by...
- Questions to Ask in Your Child Care Search
During your child care search, you will talk to and visit child care providers...
- Biters: Why They Do It and What To Do About It
Although biting isn’t abnormal in the sense that one out of ten toddlers and two-year-olds does it...
- Celebrating the Holidays
Holiday time is a wonderful and exciting time for young children. But it can also be very overwhelming...
- Checking Out Your Options
There are pros and cons associated with each type of care. The following provides you with comparisons at a glance...
- Child Care Checklist for Parents
- Children and Fear of War and Terrorism
Terrorist attacks in our country and threats of war are frightening experiences for all Americans...
- Components of High Quality Child Care
Most parents know they want quality child care for their children, but they may not know how to recognize quality care...
- Consumer Guide to Using License Exempt Care
Some states choose not to regulate some types of child care. For example, care in the child’s home or by relatives, part-day nursery schools, and summer camps often do not need to be licensed...
- Disciplining Your Toddler
No doubt about it, toddlers can be a handful! At times, it will seem like they can be in two places at the same time...
- Encouraging Confidence - Changing Confidence
Learned negative feelings of confidence can be changed...
- Engaging Children’s Cooperation
Here are some simple guidelines for helping children shift into a cooperative mode. Try them the next time you are experiencing oppositional behavior from your child...
- Every Child is Creative
By the age of five, children lose part of their creativity. According to researchers, there are a number of ways to stimulate creativity in your child...
- Gearing Down for the Holidays
When you think of the holidays, what comes to mind? Do you think of happy children or hyper ones? This season should be a time of tradition and cheer...
- Helping Children Cope With Violence
Media-reported violence often intrudes on the daily lives of young children both in their homes and in out-of-home settings...
- Help Your Child Become a Good Reader
Children who read well come from homes in which there are plenty of books, magazines, and newspapers...
- How Your Baby Grows
Each child develops and matures at his or her own rate. We offer this list only to give some general guideposts along the way...
- How Your Toddler/Preschooler Grows
Each child develops and matures at his or her own rate. We offer this list only to give some general guideposts along the way...
- Information for Parents Seeking In-home Child Care Providers
Employing an individual to care for your child in your own home is referred to as in-home or nanny care...
- The ABC’s of Choosing Child Care
One of the most difficult decisions you will ever have to make as a parent is choosing the right child care for your youngster...
- Tips For Your Baby’s Safety, From the Consumer Product Safety Commission
From the beginning of a child’s life, products, such as cribs, high chairs and other equipment intended for a child must be selected with safety in mind...
