Child care - Toddler/Preschool
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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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A Survey: Quality Practices, May 1999 (PDF)
Author: Early, Diane (2 more by this author); Richard Clifford; Carollee Howes
Description: "A national survey of 1,902 teachers of preschoolers reveals that teachers report that they are able, generally, to engage in the practices they endorse. Teachers were given a list of twenty-one practices and asked to rate..."
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: 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.
Description: This site provides a link to food for thought, which provides fun ideas each month about food, nutrition, and eating for parents of preschool children.
Interactive Immunization Guide
Description: This website allows you to determine what immunizations your child needs based on his or her age.
Author: LaFont, Marjorie
Description: This article provides tips on mealtimes for preschoolers.
Parent Education and Support Literature Review
Author: Brown, Margaret
Description: List of links for parental education
Pearly Whites! Dental Health for Infant Toddlers and Preschoolers
Author: Doescher, S
Description: This article describes the importance of dental care for young children.
Secrets of Parenting 2, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on toddlers. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author); Valerie Dittmer King; Lonna Nachtigal; Muktha Jost
Description: This fact sheet describes how toys can be something for your children to remember and used as valuable learning tools. There is also information on which toys are appropriate for different ages of children.
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.
Description: The Head Start program provides grants to local public and private non-profit and for-profit agencies to provide comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families, with a special focus on helping preschoolers develop the early reading and math skills they need to be successful in school. In FY 1995, the Early Head Start program was established to serve children from birth to three years of age in recognition of the mounting evidence that the earliest years matter a great deal to children's growth and development.
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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.
Abuelos Criando a sus Nietos: Cuidando a bebés y niños pequeños
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet focuses on early brain development and other basics of early development, such as how they form attachments, the importance of repeating concepts, ways to incorporate making choices into children's lives, and the ways that reading and singing help their development.
Advice to Parents From Pre-Schoolers
Description: This article provides advice to parents from pre-school children.
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.
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 (7 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.
Choosing a Child Care Provider -fact sheet
Description: This fact sheet explains different types of child care and how to choose the right child care for your child.
Choosing Care for Your Children: Child Care Centers and Preschools
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: The series is designed to help parents become better-informed consumers of child care options. It includes information to consider when choosing child care.
Choosing Care for Your Children: Child Care Homes
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: The series is designed to help parents become better-informed consumers of child care options. It includes information to consider when choosing child care in a child care home.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 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 (7 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.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo durante la edad preescolar
Description: This booklet highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their children to develop the skills necessary for success in school and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
Consejos Para Padres con Niños Menores de 5 Años (Advice to Parents from Pre-schoolers)
Description: This article provides advice to parents from pre-school children.
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Coping With Your Toddler & Toilet Training
Description: This fact sheet provides information on understanding and dealing with the issues of toilet training.
Author: Gable, Sara (5 more by this author)
Description: The objective of this publication is to broaden understanding about the
creative process for parents and others who work with children and youth. Recipes are included.
Enhancing Infant and Toddler Care through Reflective Practice, Part I
Description: This archived webinar focuses on the impact of early learning programs on closing the school readiness and achievement gaps.
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.
Author: Tweedie, Pat
Description: This brief article provides some helpful tips for parents when preparing for their child's first day at child care.
Description: This site provides a link to food for thought, which provides fun ideas each month about food, nutrition, and eating for parents of preschool children.
Getting Young Children Ready To Learn
Description: This fact sheet provides information on how children learn and how you can help them prepare for school.
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 booklet highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their children to develop the skills necessary for success in school and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
Illinois Early Learning Project
Description: The Illinois Early Learning Project Web site is a source of evidence-based, reliable information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in the State of Illinois. The Web site offers printable Tip Sheets for caregivers and parents, Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers), a customized question-answering service, a statewide calendar of events for parents and caregivers, an easy-to-use database of links to "the best of the Web" on topics related to early care and education, and periodic Online Chats.
Illinois Early Learning Project (Spanish)
Description: El sitio Web de Illinois Early Learning (Aprendizaje Temprano de Illinois, o IEL) es un medio efectivo para proveer información confiable basada en evidencia a los padres y madres, cuidadores y maestros de niños pequeños en el estado de Illinois. El sitio Web ofrece Páginas de Consejos que pueden imprimirse, para cuidadores y padres, un servicio que ofrece respuestas individuales a sus preguntas, un calendario para padres y cuidadores con eventos estatales, una base de datos fácil de usar con enlaces a lo mejor del Web sobre temas de mucho interés, y Chateo en Vivo.
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.
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.
Author: LaFont, Marjorie
Description: This article provides tips on mealtimes for preschoolers.
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.
Description: Parenting Pipeline contains free newsletters for parents of preschoolers, kindergartners, second, fourth, and sixth graders, and teens. Each level offers a number of newsletters on issues related to parenting and family life.
Preparing Children for Child Care
Author: Allen, Rose (7 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 (61 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.
Secrets of Parenting 2, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on toddlers. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
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.
Stress in Young Children from Military Families
Description: This is an archived webinar that discusses how the brain processes different levels of stress and strategies for child care providers to help children manage stresses related to military life
Support Your Child's Learning at Home - Preschool to Kindergarten -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides information on supporting your child’s learning during preschool and kindergarten. The guide provides information on four areas: language and literacy, movement skills, math skills, and social skills.
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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A Survey: Quality Practices, May 1999 (PDF)
Author: Early, Diane (2 more by this author); Richard Clifford; Carollee Howes
Description: "A national survey of 1,902 teachers of preschoolers reveals that teachers report that they are able, generally, to engage in the practices they endorse. Teachers were given a list of twenty-one practices and asked to rate..."
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.
Television viewing, computer use, obesity, and adiposity in US preschool children
Description: There is limited evidence in preschool children linking media use, such as television/video viewing and computer use, to obesity and adiposity. These researchers tested three hypotheses in preschool children: 1) that watching > 2 hours of TV/videos daily is associated with obesity and adiposity, 2) that computer use is associated with obesity and adiposity, and 3) that > 2 hours of media use daily is associated with obesity and adiposity.