Choosing Child Care

This guide was designed to assist parents in evaluating their child care needs and to help them select a program that will best suit those needs.

Food for Your Baby’s First Year

This guide will help you make healthy choices about feeding your baby from birth to 12 months of age.

Safety

This brochure includes tips to keep children safe. By evaluating your home and making necessary changes, you can help prevent an injury from happening.

Separation

Help your child deal with separation.

Special Needs – Information for Caregivers

As a caregiver, being aware of every child's needs will help you provide the best care for all children.

Stress

Help your child deal with stress.

Toilet Teaching without Tears

This brochure includes signs of toilet learning readiness, teaching methods, common difficulties, and tips for success.

When a Child Bites

This brochure includes reasons for biting, ways to discourage it, and actions to take when it does happen.

When Is Your Child Too Ill to Go to Child Care?

Highlights common childhood illnesses, possible symptoms and causes, and what action to take if your child has the illness.

Staying Safe Online -- What Would YOU Do?

The Internet is a useful tool, but it can also be a dangerous place. That's what the main character learns in "The Chat Cats," and what readers will learn in this lively booklet. When Ami joins her friends in a chat room, she runs the risk of making herself vulnerable to strangers and being pressured into bullying, sexting, and downloading inappropriate software. It's up to readers to decide whether Ami should take the path that makes her more cool in her peers' eyes or make safer, healthier choices. Internet dangers are clearly spelled out, and a list of rules for staying safe online is included. Ages 9-11

When Children Have Learning Differences

Includes reaching milestones, noticing differences, screening, evaluation, decisions about kindergarten, and local services & support.

Helping Your Child Learn Math; An At-Home Activities Guide

How can you help children in grades pre-K to 5 become comfortable with using math every day and encourage parents to stay involved in their child's education? With our fun at-home activities guide! This guide helps children explore basic mathematical principles in their everyday surroundings, and helps parents become great teachers. This study book emphasizes that parents don't need any special math knowledge to help children understand the basics of math -- and the shapes-and-numbers-based activities inside make it easy for children to respond enthusiastically to what they are learning.

Key Benefits to Your Child's Education

These tips have been created to help you become more involved in your child’s education. As a more involved parent, you improve your child’s chances to be successful in school. For each topic, you will find suggestions for how you can obtain additional information and assistance.

100 Tips for Parents

These tips have been created to help you become more involved in your child’s education. As a more involved parent, you improve your child’s chances to be successful in school. For each topic, you will find suggestions for how you can obtain additional information and assistance.

Shining Stars: First Graders Learn To Read

This publication provides parents with ways to help their first grade children learn to read. It includes activities parents can use to build reading skills and a checklist of developmental skills parents can apply to their children.

Shining Stars: Kindergartners Learn To Read

This publication provides parents with ways to help their kindergarten-age children learn to read. It includes activities parents can use to build reading skills and a checklist of developmental skills parents can apply to their children.

Shining Stars: Preschoolers Learn To Read

This publication provides parents with ways to help their preschool-age children learn to read. It includes activities parents can use to build reading skills and a checklist of developmental skills parents can apply to their children.

Shining Stars: Second & Third Graders Learn To Read

This publication provides parents with ways to help their second and third grade children learn to read. It includes activities parents can use to build reading skills and a checklist of developmental skills parents can apply to their children.

Shining Stars: Toddlers Learn To Read

This publication provides parents with ways to help their toddler-age children learn to read. It includes activities parents can use to build reading skills and a checklist of developmental skills parents can apply to their children.

Who Knew? The Reading Is Cool Issue

Chock-full of games and interactive exercises, this engaging workbook helps children understand the importance of learning to read for success in school, everyday life, and future careers. Children learn that reading can be fun and that they should make it part of their daily routine. Ages 9-11

Who Knew? The Beat Test Stress Issue

An excellent antidote for test anxiety that uses confidence-boosting activities to build skills for improved standardized-test scores. This interactive workbook teaches students test preparation strategies, such as studying, getting plenty of rest, and gathering needed materials. Test-time strategies include breathing deeply, reading instructions carefully, and checking answers. Includes a family activity page that gives parents and children an opportunity to learn more about successful test taking. Ages 9-11