Child care - Infant
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Description: Bright Futures is a national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that?optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice. This website promotes the health and well-being of children and adolescents from birth to age 21 and provides many links to resources.
National Network of Child Care Resource and Referral (NACCRRA)
Description: The National Network of Child Care Resource and Referral (NACCRRA) provides training, resources and best practices standards to local and state agenices that support high-quality, accountable services and promotes national policies and partnerships that facilitate universal access to high quality child care.
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Liability Insurance and the Child Care Center 
Author: Volker, Carol
Description: This article provides information on ways to: (1) evaluate insurance options for your child care center, and (2) evaluate and compare liability insurance policies."
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2009 Immunization Schedule for Children Birth to 6 years
Description: This site provides a child immunization schedule from birth to age 6.
Author: Heins, Marilyn
Description: Offers suggestions to parents to help them wean babies from their bottles.
Better Kid Care Program E-Newsletter
Author: Cushman, Kathleen (1 more by this author)
Description: This site provides a link to the Better Kid Care Program E-Newsletter. Contains archived newsletters on topics important to those caring for young children.
Description: This article offers suggestion on how to care for a newborn’s skin.
Description: Child Care Aware is a non-profit initiative committed to helping parents find the best information on locating quality child care and child care resources in their community. Provides links on resources for helping parents select, choose, and evaluate child care options.
Description: This article provides tips on choosing a child care center.
Consejos para el cuidado de niños
Description: When you place your child in the care of someone else, be it family child care, a center, a relative or friend, the key to your peace of mind is trust.
Crisis Nursery Care for Infants and Children Who Are Medically Fragile
Author: Landdeck-Sisco, Jeanne (1 more by this author)
Description: Facts and issues around staffing, training, and medical services for crisis nursery care for infants and children who are medically fragile.
Infant Crying and Soothing: What You Need To Know To Keep Your Baby Safe
Description: This document provides information on how soothing and caring for a crying baby.
Interactive Immunization Guide
Description: This website allows you to determine what immunizations your child needs based on his or her age.
Description: This article discussed one of the most common health concerns for parents of newborns, jaundice (the yellow color that appears in a baby's skin).
Just in Time Parenting Podcasts 1st Year
Description: This website provides links to audio files based on the Just In Time Parenting eNewsletters for children, 1-12 months.
Parent Education and Support Literature Review
Author: Brown, Margaret
Description: List of links for parental education
Description: This fact sheet provides helpful tips to parents and professionals on how to keep babies safe while sleeping. This resource describes ways to help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and the death of infants while sleeping with others.
The Newborn: When is it Normal to be Abnormal
Description: This brief article illustrates some common situations where "abnormal" signs of behaviors among newborns are actually normal.
Zero to Three's BabySteps Parenting Builetin
Description: ZERO TO THREE has publishes a monthly e-newsletter for parents that provides science-based information on parenting and child development from birth to 36 months.
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Folletos de Informacion Para Los Padres – Early Childhood
Description: This website provides early childhood information and resources in Spanish.
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Description: The 4-H Babysitters' Program is a curriculum designed to better prepare young people for babysitting and child care by educating them to become capable, caring, responsible babysitters. This program is recommended for youth 12 years of age and older. The program consists of six sessions, approximately 1-1/2 to 2 hours in length.
Abuelos Criando a sus Nietos: Cuestiones sobre el cuidado infantil
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet for grandparents raising grandchildren outlines why quality child care is important, how to choose a high-quality child care program, and how to make the transition to child care manageable.
Baby’s First Year Publications
Description: Baby's First Year Calendar is a full-color, 12-month calendar designed for new moms and dads to note milestones and important information about their growing baby.
Author: Cushman, Kathleen (1 more by this author)
Description: Penn State Cooperative Extension's Better Kid Care Program provides educational materials and resources, satellite broadcasts, videos, and educational activities for child care providers, parents, and employers.
Better Kid Care Program E-Newsletter
Author: Cushman, Kathleen (1 more by this author)
Description: This site provides a link to the Better Kid Care Program E-Newsletter. Contains archived newsletters on topics important to those caring for young children.
Brain Development (Desarrollo Cerebral Infantil)
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the relevance of recent research on the early development of the brain and the implications of that knowledge for parents and caregivers as they interact with young children. (Note: This resource is also available in Spanish as "Desarrollo Cerebral Infantil" http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/sp.cerebral.pdf)
Child Care Checklist for Parents (PDF)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet includes lots of information that will help parents in deciding the best child care option for them.
Child Care: Raising Children Together
Author: Allen, Rose (6 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses issues that parents and child care providers will more than likely encounter while a child is in child care and how parents and providers can work through them together. Issues include toilet learning, biting, eating habits, holidays, and children's misbehavior.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: The author of this newsletter article lists many questions that help in examining the quality of a child care program.
Communicating With Your Provider
Author: Allen, Rose (6 more by this author); Joan Sprain
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents about communicating with their child's child care provider. The author discusses everyday communication as well as communicating when there is a problem.
Author: Robertson, Anne
Description: This site links to a wide array of fact sheets on issues facing parents and families, from aging to child care.
Feeding Infants: A Guide for Use in the Child Nutrition Programs
Description: This guide is intended for child care providers who participate in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. The guide presents information on infant development, nutrition for infants, breastfeeding and formula feeding, preventing tooth decay, feeding solid foods, drinking from a cup, choking prevention, sanitary food preparation and safe food handling, commercially prepared and home-prepared baby food, and some of the Infant Meal Pattern requirements.
Author: Tweedie, Pat
Description: This brief article provides some helpful tips for parents when preparing for their child's first day at child care.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Child Care Concerns
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a brief overview for grandparents raising grandchildren who need to find competent, loving child care while the grandparents work, run errands, or just need time for themselves.
Description: This program is for expectant parents, caregivers, and parents of children from infancy to age five. The program is a study that enables parents to expand their knowledge on parenting. Growth and development, physical and emotional needs, and positive discipline strategies are some of the topics discussed.
Description: This website provides information for parents on choosing safe child care services.
Ingredients for Quality Child Care
Author: Boschee, Marlys (1 more by this author); Geralyn M. Jacobs
Description: Child care has become an essential component of life in our society. Quality child care can make a significant difference in children's development. For many years researchers have been examining the aspects of child care that have a positive influence on children's development. This article will examine some of those elements, including the child care provider, child: staff ratio, the environment, safety, services, and relationships.
Introducing Solid Foods to Babies
Author: Martin, Darlene
Description: This fact sheet discusses when and what kinds of solid foods to introduce to babies. There is also information on home prepared baby food and heating food.
Investing in Early Childhood: A Roadmap to Economic Success for Louisiana
Description: This report offers a comprehensive plan for making public investments where they will yield the highest returns. The report addresses health, education, social-emotional development, parenting education and family support issues.
Investing in Early Childhood: A Roadmap to Economic Success for Louisiana
Description: This report offers a comprehensive plan for making public investments where they will yield the highest returns. The report addresses health, education, social-emotional development, parenting education and family support issues specific to Louisiana.
Liability Insurance and the Child Care Center
Author: Volker, Carol
Description: This article provides information on ways to: (1) evaluate insurance options for your child care center, and (2) evaluate and compare liability insurance policies."
Little Kids, Big Questions: A ZERO TO THREE Podcast Series on Early Childhood Development
Description: ZERO TO THREE’s podcast series, Little Kids, Big Questions, addresses some of the most common (and challenging) issues facing parents of babies and toddlers, such as: helping a baby learn to sleep through the night; dealing with a picky eater; and learning to set limits on children’s behavior. Hosted by Ann Pleshette Murphy, past contributor to ABC’s Good Morning America Parenting and Vice President of the ZERO TO THREE Board of Directors.
Description: Developed by the Search Institute, MVParents.com, provides information about raising responsible children and teens. There are ideas and tools to guide parents in helping their children make smart choices and avoid potential pitfalls. The MVParents Web site is a hub for information, advice and resources for dealing with everyday parenting issues, including curfews, family communication, and underage drinking. Parents can register for Everyday Parenting Ideas, a weekly e-mail update with tips, ideas, and encouragement. Testimonials from the NFL players are geared specifically toward fathers.
Description: This Web site has news, research, policy and funding information available about child care. The Child Care Bureau is dedicated to helping families find and afford quality child care.
Parents Should be Cautious When Using Infant Slings
Description: This article addresses safety concerns related to sling-style infant carriers.
Preparing Children for Child Care
Author: Allen, Rose (6 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet suggests ideas for parents to try as they prepare their child for a new child care experience.
Quality Child Care: What Does It Really Mean?
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet lists guidelines of what to look for in quality child care settings such as group size, adult-child ratio, teacher training, and the environment. It also has suggestions on where to get help finding child care. References listed for more information.
Secure Attachments: Building Caring Relationships with Parents and Children in Military Families
Description: This is an archived webinar that discusses building relationships with parents and children in military families.
The Alliance for Early Childhood Finance
Description: The Alliance for Early Childhood Finance launched their new, re-designed website, which is organized around the 4 pillars of their work: Early Childhood Education (ECE) Finance, ECE Policy, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, and Shared Services. The site also features a variety of reports, memos, and other resources.
Description: This site provides access to the Growing Years Series. Each fact sheet is timed to arrive as parents need them with suggestions designed for their baby’s current age, arriving every other month from age 1 to age 3, and every third month from age 3 to age 5.
Understanding Child Development as a Violence Prevention Tool
Description: This document outlines important information, based on decades of research, about children’s typical abilities and behaviors at various ages until age 8.
What Are My Parental Rights and Responsibilities When My Child Is in Child Care?
Author: Hirschy, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: In this short article, the author lists parents' rights as well as responsibilities as related to their child's child care program. (Note: This resource is also available in HTML and in Spanish as "Cuáles Son Mis Derechos y Mis Responsabilidades?")
Author: Hirschy, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: In this brief article the author suggests steps for parents to take in dealing with problems that may arise in their child's child care program. (Note: This article is also available in Spanish as Cuando Hay Problemas con los Cuidados de Guarderia de su Nino at http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/ProblemsSpan.pdf)
Working with Latino Parents in Child Care and Other Settings
Description: Working with Latino children and parents can be very satisfying, but it requires attention to details that are important to their culture. Professionals who are sensitive to the culture of Latinos will be able to work more effectively with Latino parents and will experience greater program success. This fact sheet offers tips for working effectively with Latino families.
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Description: The report describes findings from the IYCN Project’s literature review examining evidence on community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding.
Creative Solutions for Emerging Child Care Needs
Author: Hardison, Wanda
Description: This article presents the results of a progressive, educational effort that is meeting the unique needs of families through six initiatives: comprehensive training; referral line; child care data base; resource library; development of new child care; and newsletters.
Early Childhood Research and Policy Brief: Quality in Child Care Centers
Author: Love, John (3 more by this author); Loyd Little; Richard Clifford; Carollee Howes
Description: The purpose of Early Developments is to share the activities and findings from the center's many ongoing projects. Each issue also includes a special section on the National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL), a five-year project examining critical issues in early childhood practices.
Parenting Infants and Toddlers Today
Description: This document provides the results of an opinion poll of parents of children ages birth to 36 months to identify what supports parents of young children turn to and to develop a better understanding of the factors that influence approaches to parenting.
Research Brief: Child Care Center Quality and Child Development
Description: reviews the latest research on indicators of quality in child care centers.
RWJF Content Alert: Study Reveals Prolonged Effectiveness of Early Intervention Program
Description: This trial expands on earlier investigations to support the value of early intervention programs and the need to extend educational enrichment activities to a broader range of children. The IHDP intervention served lower- and higher-weight preterm infants, who tend to be at risk for serious health and developmental problems.