Parent Resources

Are you sometimes unsure of how to handle your child?  Do you have questions about your child's educational, emotional, mental, and physical health?  Do you seek support from experts and other parents?  Here is a sampling of Web sites that may help answer your parenting questions and help your child succeed in school!

Grow Up Reading @ the West Bloomfield Township Public Library

http://www.growupreading.org/
Partnering with parents to raise a community of readers, the West Bloomfield Public Library provides lists of recommended books, activities, and programs at the Library for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners who are getting ready to read!

American Library Association Resources for Parents
http://www.ala.org/parents

A wealth of resources about how to safely surf the Web, links to more parenting sites, and an abundance of links to fun and educational sites.

Children First: The Web site of the National PTA
http://www.pta.org/index.stm

Learn about legislative activity supported by the National PTA, get information about the annual convention, join a bulletin board discussion about parenting, and much more.

Children's Television Workshop
http://www.ctw.org/parents/0,1178,,00.html

Open up the "Parents' Toolbox: smart ideas for moms and dads from the people who know kids."  Use the advise finder to get help with all of your burning questions, visit the activity planner to get fun ideas for a rainy day, or read rave reviews before you go out shopping.

Family Education Network
http://www.familyeducation.com

Visit this site for tips and resources to help you in your parenting, for news and trends that affect your family, to learn about your child's development, and to get advice from the experts.

Helping Children Succeed in School
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/succeed/

"Helping Children Succeed in School is a program written University of Illinois Extension educators that gives successful strategies for parents and caregivers to help their children succeed in school."  Topics include parent-teacher communicaiton, grades- to bribe or not to bribe, and study habits and homework.

KidsHealth
http://kidshealth.org/parent/index.html

"Have a question about your child's physical or emotional health?  KidsHealth.org has the answers!  Created and reviewed by the medical experts of the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth.org is full of information about everything from common infections to serious medical problems, nutrition ,safety, growth and development, and much more."

LD Online
http://www.ldonline.org/index.html

"The interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children."

The National Parenting Center
http://www.tnpc.com

"Dedicated to providing parents with comprehensive and responsible guidance from the world's most renowned childbearing authorities."

National Parent Information Network
http://npin.org

"The mission of NPIN is to provide access to research based information about the process of parenting, and about family involvement in education. We believe that well informed families are likely to make good decisions about raising and educating their children."  This Web Site is a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.

Positive Parenting
http://www.positiveparenting.com

Looking for help with some common parenting problems?  Positive Parenting is "dedicated to providing resources and information to make parenting rewarding, effective, and fun."