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2000 CDC Growth Charts: United States
Description: This Web page provides various growth charts and information on interpreting them. Some information is available in Spanish and French.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Description: This site contains information on child and adolescent psychiatry, fact sheets for parents and caregivers, AACAP membership, current research, practice guidelines, managed care information, awards and fellowship descriptions, meeting information, and much more. A link to information in Spanish is available from the home page.
Center for Inclusive Child Care
Description: The Center for Inclusive Child Care is a comprehensive resource network for promoting and supporting inclusive early childhood and school-age programs and providers. This network provides leadership, administrative support, training, and consultation to early care and education providers, school-age care providers, parents, and the professionals who support providers and parents of children with special needs. Information is available in 8 different languages by following a link from the home page.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: The Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contains up-to-date information about about diseases, current health issues, illness prevention and national health initiatives. The Spanish version of the site is available through a link on the home page.
Child Passenger Safety Program
Description: This Web page includes information on various aspects of car safety, especially car seats and how to use them properly. Learn if you are using the right type of seat, review the one-minute safety checklist, and find a fitting inspection station near you. Some areas of the site are available in Spanish.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services C.L.A.S Early Childhood Research Institute
Description: The materials and resources available on this site reflect the intersection of culture and language, disabilities and child development. This site is to help inform consumers (e.g., practitioners, families, and researchers) about materials and practices that are available and the contexts in which they might select a given material or practice. Parts of the site can also be read in Spanish and several other languages from links on the home page.
Federal Government Social Statistics Briefing Room
Description: "The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal social statistics. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies..."
Description: This Web site is designed to help you find resources on wellness, disease prevention, drug interactions, health news, kids health, etc. on the Internet. Information in Spanish is available through a link on the home page.
Description: This Web site has information on cooking and nutrition for kids, parents/caregivers, and educators. It includes recipes, tips and techniques, and cooking terms. Kids a Cookin' is also a television show on some stations is Kansas. The page can be viewed in Spanish by clicking the "Espanol" button at the top of the home page.
Description: This Web site provides health information to parents about a variety of childhood illnesses and issues. Use this site to learn about general health, the symptoms of over 80 infections, parenting and more. Some articles are available in Spanish from a link on the home page. Special areas for kids and teens are included.
Description: This is the Web site of the March of Dimes, an agency dedicated to promoting healthy babies and healthy pregnancies. A link to the Spanish version of their Web site is available from the home page.
National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
Description: This is the Web site for the National Center for Homeless Education. It provides information for educators, service providers, and parents on various aspects of education and homelessness including legal information, state and local resources, and publications. Some materials are available in Spanish.
Description: The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans. NCLR has chosen to work toward this goal through two primary, complementary approaches: 1) Capacity-building assistance to support and strengthen Hispanic community-based organizations; and, 2) applied research, policy analysis, and advocacy.
National Latino Children’s Institute
Description: The National Latino Children’s Institute (NLCI) is the voice for young Latinos. It is the only national Latino organization that focuses exclusively on children. National Latino Children’s Agenda is a statement of principles essential for the healthy and complete development of Latino children.
Description: The National Runaway Switchboard gives help and hope to youth and their families by providing non-judgmental, confidential crisis intervention and local and national referrals through a 24-hour hotline. Website can be viewed in Spanish, French and Chinese also.
Oregon Outreach: Latino Resources 
Description: Lists of resources, publications, and links related to the development of Latino families, children, and youth from within and outside Oregon State University Cooperative Extension.
Description: Prevent Child Abuse America's mission is to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nations children. This web site provides information about the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and how you can help.
Description: TeensHealth provides teens and families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. (Spanish-language version)
Description: Visit this Web site for information on keeping your home healthy. The site has resources on indoor air quality, asthma and allergies, mold, carbon monoxide, lead, drinking water, household chemicals, pesticides, and home safety. Some resources on the site are available in Spanish.
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An Evaluation Primer on Health Risk Communication Programs and Outcomes
Description: This introductory guide is created for individuals planning or executing evaluations of health risk communication programs and materials. This site provides the materials in English and Spanish.
CLAS Institute's Evaluation Tools Special Collection
Description: The Evaluation Tools Special Collection provides a listing of a variety of screening and diagnostic tools, and books about recommended practices in assessing the development of young children with and without disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse groups.
Practical Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects
Description: This resource provides information on the development, installation and use of effective project-level monitoring and evaluation systems as tools for impact-oriented management of rural development projects.
Your Net Worth (Tu Valor Neto)
Author: Perra, Betsey
Description: This article defines the term net worth and tells how to calculate your own net worth. Also available in Spanish as "Tu Valor Neto" at http://www.nncc.org/Business/sp.valor.neto.html.
These materials were developed for a Puerto Rican audience and have been written in the second person (familiar); the use of the second person may be objectionable to some audiences. Also, vocabulary may vary from one region to another. Materials may need to be adapted for people from other Latin cultures.
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11 Questions to Ask Before Psychiatric Hospitalization of Your Child or Adolescent (also in Spanish)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this brief guide for parents that may have been asked to admit their child or adolescent into psychiatric care. Several important questions are listed that should be asked before making any final decisions regarding a child's inpatient psychiatric treatment. Also available in Spanish (11 PREGUNTAS A HACERSE ANTES DE COMENZAR EL TRATAMIENTO SIQUIATRICO DE SU NIÑO O ADOLESCENTE) at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=11+Preguntas+a+Hacerse+Antes+de+Comenzar+el+Tratamiento+Siquiatrico+de+su+Nino+o+Adolescente+No.+32
Description: Early Head Start Task Force has designed this bookmark for Parents and Caregivers to provide them information regarding the simple things they can do for their children that make a huge difference in their lives.
Also available in Spanish, "7 cosas geniales que los padres y los cuidadores pueden hacer", at http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/early/teachingouryoungest/bookmark-es.pdf.
Description: This fact sheet offers practical advice in matters of love, discipline, communication, self respect and independence as they relate to the healthy development in children.
Description: Contains information on all aspects of adoption including strategies for coping, laws and policies, special conditions and information for parents raising adoptive children and teenagers. Available in English and Spanish.
Description: Helping with reading and working with your child's school are very important ways for students to be successful in school and life.
Description: Time is a valuable asset. Budgeting your time is as important as budgeting your money.
Author: Malley, Cathy
Description: "EN ESTA SECCION APRENDERAS:
- Que no es facil ensenarles a los ninos a como compartir.
- Que debes ser un buen ejemplo para ellos y ensenarles a como compartir.
- Que debes elogiar y ayudar a los ninos mientras aprenden a comparti"
Aprendiendo en Casa (Learning at Home Newsletter No. 1)
Author: Estrada, Michelle
Description: Includes information about how to prevent SIDS, how to make a doctor’s appointment, and suggestions for childproofing the home.
Aprendiendo en Casa (Learning at Home Newsletter No. 2)
Author: Estrada, Michelle
Description: Includes facts about obesity, ways to learn about feelings, and ways to protect the skin from sun poisoning.
Aprendiendo en Casa (Learning at Home Newsletter No. 3)
Author: Estrada, Michelle
Description: Includes ideas for learning to read, communicate with teachers, and protect children from lead poisoning.
Aspergers Disorder (Desorden de Asperger)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece with information on Asperger's Disorder. This development disorder has commonly been confused with Autism. For children suffering from Asperger's Disorder, there are many treatment programs and special education is available. Also available in Spanish, Desorden de Asperger at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/desorden_de_asperger_no_69.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Desorden Deficitario de la Atencion)
Description: This fact sheet provides information about children with ADHD. Topics covered include what is AD/HD, how common is it, signs of AD/HD, treatment, school, tips for parents, tips for teachers, resources and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as Desorden Deficitario de la AtenciÃn.
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder (El Autismo/Trastorno Generalizado del Desarrollo)
Description: This fact sheet contains information about autism and pervasive developmental disorder including a definition, incidence of occurrence, characteristics and educational implications. It also includes tips for parents and teachers working with young children with these diagnoses. Additionally, it includes a list of resources and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as El Autismo/Trastorno Generalizado del Desarrollo.
Description: This brochure discusses the number of child death from drowning in backyard pools and give recommendations to protect children. Also available in Spanish as "PISCINA RESIDENCIAL: Vigile siempre a los niños, advierte la Comisión de Seguridad" at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/spanish/5097s.pdf. "Según la Comisión de Seguridad de Productos del Consumidor de los Estados Unidos, se estima que unos 260 niños menores de cinco años se ahogan cada año en piscinas, muchos en piscinas residenciales."
Bedwetting (Enuresis: el Nino que se Orina en la Cama)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece for parents on bedwetting. This piece provides helpful tips for parents regarding how to deal with their children when they wet the bed. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Enuresis - El Nino Que se Orina en la Cama" at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/enuresis_el_nino_que_se_orina_en_la_cama_no_18.
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to be aware of fraudulence and know how to protect yourself and your investments.
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about visual impairments in children. Included are a definition of visual impairment, incidence of occurance, characteristics, educational implications, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as Impedimentos Visuales.
Description: IPTV's Bookfinder helps parents find books for babies to third-graders. Parents are provided with a list of books after selecting the age of the children and theme of the book. Themes include: sports, holidays, family, multicultural, nonfiction, biography, and many more.
Bright Futures at Georgetown University
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.
Includes links to distance learning and online tools and materials on such topics as; Mental Health, Nutrition, Oral Health, and Physical Activity.
Bright Futures Nutrition Family Fact Sheets
Description: Series of nutrition fact sheets for families organized by developmental periods. Downloadable brochures divided by ages. Covers infants to teenagers. Available in color or black and white.
Author: Trister Dodge, Diane; Cate Heroman
Description: This easy to read booklet is packed with illustrations and charts that explain brain development and the simple things parents can do to make a big difference for their babies. Sections in the book include prenatal care, vision and hearing, touching your baby, teaching your baby about feelings, relating to others, talking with your child and sharing books, moving and doing, play, music and math, and art. This book is available online in English and Spanish (Como Estimular el Cerebro Infantil at http://www.teachingstrategies.com/content/pageDocs/spanbuilding.pdf ) or for purchase in English or Spanish from Teaching Strategies.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This documents provides information for parents and teachers about bullying. The news brief includes misconceptions about bullies, and what to watch for in your child and the classroom. Some prevention strategies are presented for both parents and teachers. Also available in Spanish, "Buscapleitos" http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pdfs/bullies_s.pdf.
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Pyschiatry has provided this piece on bullying to illustrate to parents possible indications that their child could be a victim of bullying or could possibly be bullying other children. Also available in Spanish, La Intimidacion at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/la_intimidacion_bullying_no_80.
Capture the Power of a Spending Plan
Author: Martinez, Gayle Rose; Joan LeFebvre
Description: This fact sheet provides quick an desy ways to help you develp a successful spending plan
Caring for Important Papers After a Flood/El cuidado de documentos dañados durante una inundación
Description: Valuable documents should be protected from any disaster. If, however, they are damaged in a flood you can save them using the instructions in this fact sheet. English and Spanish versions are available.
Centros de Recursos para Cuidadores de California
Description: This website provides links to a number of fact sheets in Spanish dealing with caregiving, stroke, depression, Alzheimer's disease, family care options, and legal issues.
Cerebral Palsy (La Parálisis Cerebral)
Description: This fact sheet provides information for parents and teachers who are interested in learning more about cerebral palsy. Included are a definition of cerebral palsy, signs, treatment, school issues, tips for teachers and parents, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as La Parálisis Cerebral.
Description: This factsheet explores types of communication within families and offers suggestions for improving family relationships.
Child Abuse - The Hidden Bruises (El Maltrato Infantil: Los Golpes Ocultos)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Pscyhiatry has provided this short, informative piece illustrating how to identify a child that has been abused, and what to do if you know a child has been abused. Child abuse is much more encompassing than solely physical abuse. Child abuse includes emotional, psychological, verbal, sexual abuse, and neglect. Child that have suffered from any type of abuse will need to seek some sort of psychiatric treatment to help cope with their traumatic experience. Also available in Spanish, El Maltrato Infantil: Los Golpes Ocultos at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/el_maltrato_infantil_los_golpes_ocultos_no_5.
Child Sexual Abuse (El Abuso Sexual a los Ninos)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece on child sexual abuse to help teachers, parents, and providers identify, stop, and help the child to cope with any sexual abuse that has occured. Children are not able to psychologically cope with the emotional problems that result from sexual abuse and they need to be helped and guided along the path of counseling and healing. Also available in Spanish, El Abuso Sexual a los Ninos at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/el_abuso_sexual_a_los_ninos_no_9.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Child Welfare Terms, English to Spanish
Description: In the interest of better serving the needs of Spanish-speaking families and professionals who work with them, Child Welfare Information Gateway developed this glossary to ensure consistency and cultural relevance in our publications. By making this document available to others, we hope to support other organizations that are also striving to improve their communications and to promote, where possible, consistency throughout the child welfare field. The Child Welfare Information Gateway has also provided a Spanish to English version accessible through the same website.
Childhood & Adolescent Immunization Schedule
Description: This Web page has current immunization schedules and recommendations for children and adolescents. The schedules are available as PDFs. It also includes a "catch up" schedule for children who are out of sync. The information is also available in Spanish by following a link from the top of the page.
Author: Perry, Bruce
Description: This article by Dr. Bruce Perry, discusses some of the key issues related to the child's complex set of reactions that often follow loss; either a death, or divorce, moving, etc. The focus of the article is on how teachers can identify difficulties related to the loss as well as suggestions on how to provide support to the child.
Children and Disaster: Part 1 Ages and Stages/Los niños y los desastres: Parte 1 Edades y etapas
Description: This 4-page publication outlines major types of disasters and how children of different ages may react when one occurs.
Description: This 4-page publication outlines typical reactions children of various age groups experience when disasters occur and how parents and caregivers can help them cope successfully.
Children and Grief (Los Ninos y la Pena por la Muerte de un ser Querido)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has shared this fact sheet on children and how they experience grief so that parents and professionals are able to help a child that is coping with death. Children experience the loss of a loved one in a very different way than adults, with their reactions depending on their age and their developmental level. Suggestions for when to seek additional supports is included. Also available in Spanish, Los Ninos y la Pena por la Muerte de un ser Querido No. 8 at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/los_ninos_y_la_pena_por_la_muerte_de_un_ser_querido_no_8.
Children and Lying (Los Ninos y el Mentir)
Description: This fact sheet describes reasons why children might lie and how to determine if lying is indicative of a greater problem. Parents are an important role model for children's beliefs about lying. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Los Ninos y el Mentir" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/los_ninos_y_el_mentir_no_44.
Description: Discover how TV, movies, advertising, computers and video games can shape your child's development and what you can do to create a media-literate household.
Children and Sports (Los Niños y los Deportes)
Description: This fact sheet offers advice to parents on how to help their children get the most out of being involved in sports. According to this publication, parental involvement in the activity is one of the key ways to make sure your child has a healthy experience. Also available in Spanish as "Los Niños y los Deportes at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Los+Ninos+y+los+Deportes+No.+61."
Children Who Can't Pay Attention/ADHD (Los Ninos que no Pueden Prestar Atencion)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this article for parents and teachers to help recognize a child that may be suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Often times, a child that comes across as misbehaving or defiant may in all actuality be suffering from ADHD. Also available in Spanish, Los Ninos que no Pueden Prestar Atencion at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Los+Ninos+que+no+Pueden+Prestar+Atencion+%28ADHD%29+No.+6.
Children Who Steal (Los Ninos que Roban)
Description: A fact sheet for parents about youth and stealing. Also available in Spanish as "Los Ninos que Roban" at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Los+Ninos+que+Roban+No.+12.
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Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this particular piece for parents who have children that refuse to go to school. If a child is always insisting upon staying home from school with a minor illness and recovers by mid-morning, only to have the illness return the next morning before school, the child may be suffering from seperation anxiety. This article helps describe more in-depth possible symptoms and what to do about the situation if your child is missing school due to anxiety. Also available in Spanish, Los Ninos que se Niegan a ir a la Escuela (Ansiedad por la Separacion) at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/los_ninos_que_se_niegan_a_ir_a_la_escuela_ansiedad_por_la_separacion_no_7.
Children With Learning Disabilities (Los Ninos con Problemas del Aprendizaje)
Description: This fact sheet describes some common signs of learning disabilities, causes of learning disabilities, and what steps should be taken if you suspect your child has a learning disability. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Los Ninos con Problemas del Aprendizaje" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/los_ninos_con_problemas_del_aprendizaje_no_16.
Children's Sleep Problems (Ninos con Problemas al Dormir)
Description: In this fact sheet you will learn about common causes and symptoms of sleep problems in children. It also offers tips on reducing sleep problems. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Ninos con Problemas al Dormir" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/ninos_con_problemas_al_dormir_no_34.
Children: Guidance and Discipline/Niños: guía y disciplina
Description: Parents and their children are engaged in a very important interaction, one in which the child is learning, doing, and growing, and the parent is trying to help the child learn, behave, and grow in appropriate ways. This is Guidance/Discipline. This 2 page document explains basic strategies for helping children learn to think and behave in appropriate, healthy, and positive ways.
Chiquillos en Accion: 12-18 Meses
Author: Ferrer, Millie
Description: Esta publicación le dirige con la vida fÃsica de un muchacho joven. Esto ayudará al lector a ver el desarrollo a través del ojo del niño.
Chiquillos en Acción: 30-36 Meses
Author: Ferrer, Millie
Description: Esta es la tercera parte de tres en una serie con respecto al crecimiento de un muchacho joven. El es cuatro años de viejo ahora. Chasque aquí para ver cómo él se ha convertido.
Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment
Description: NAEYC's position statement recognizes that those who work with young children face many daily decisions that have moral and ethical implications. The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct offers guidelines for responsible behavior and sets forth a common basis for resolving the principal ethical dilemmas encountered in early childhood care and education. The Statement of commitment is not part of the Code but is a personal acknowledgement of an individual's willingness to embrace the distinctive vales and moral obligations of the field of early childhood care and education.
Also available in Spanish at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/conductaEtica.pdf.
Description: This fact sheet provides some tips to comfort children with diarrhea so they do not get cranky.
Cómo Ayudar a su Adolescente con la Tarea
Description: This article provides tips on how to help your teen with homework.
Description: Setting goals help you to accomplish things that are important to you and your family.
Como Lograr Un Balance Entre Tu Trabajo Y Los Deberes Familiares?
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley
Description: La importancia de tener objetivos que logren un ba-lance entre tu trabajo y los deberes familiares. Metodos para administrar mejor tu tiempo y tu hogar estableciendo objetivos y planificando.
Cómo mantener sus propios expedientes médicos
Description: Medical records are important to every family. Careful record keeping will help in the event you move or change doctors.
Description: Credit is a good thing if you use it wisely. Learn how to obtain credit and how credit works.
Como Obtener El Cobro De Sustento Para Sus Ninos
Description: This website provides a list of links of Hispanic/Latino resources regarding Child Support.
Consejos para cuidado del niño (Child Care: What to Look For)
Author: Riley, Dave
Description: This short, informative piece written in Spanish, has been provided by the University of Minnesota's Extension Services to give parent's a list of things to consider when looking for a child care provider for their child.
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.
Conversaciones con los ninos sobre el terrorismo
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet provides tips on how to talk with young children about acts of terroism and help them deal with associated fears and anxieties.
Creating Home/Program Partnerships That Work: Supporting Children With Problem Behavior
Description: The transcript of this recent chat session is on home and program partnerships. This chat highlights issues faced by families and providers is working with challenging behaviors in children.
- More about "Creating Home/Program Partnerships That Work: Supporting Children With Problem Behavior"
Crezca con su adolescente y enséñele valores
Description: According to research, teens say that the beliefs, values and actions of their parents or close adults sink in.
Description: After a disaster, con artists will be eager to take advantage of people's pain and suffering.
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to be aware of fraudulence and know how to protect yourself and your investments.
Description: This fact sheet explains how breast-feeding benefits both mother and child.
Description: This fact sheet provides basic information for those who want to learn more about deafness and hearing loss. A definition, incidence of occurance information, characteristics, educational implications, and a listing of organizations and resources are included. Also available in Spanish as La Sordera y la Pérdida de la Capacidad Auditiva.
Description: This publication contains sections on why children bite; the incidence of biting; what to do when biting occurs; and parent communication. It also contains references, web, ERIC, and other resources, as well as links to other early childhood organizations.
It is also available in Spanish (Cómo tratar los comportamientos de morder en niños pequeños) at http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/poptopics/biting-sp.html.
Death and Loss: Helping Children Manage Their Grief
Author: Perry, Bruce
Description: This article by Dr. Bruce Perry, discusses some of the key issues related to the child's complex set of reactions that often follow a loss such as a death. The focus of the article is on how teachers can identify difficulties related to the loss as well as suggestions on how to provide support to the child.
Includes Tips for Teaching: Talking About Loss With Children.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This is a Spanish language fact sheet on infant brain development.
Desarrollo de la Autoestima (Development of Self-Esteem)
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley
Description: "EN ESTA SECCION APRENDERAS
- ?Que es la autoestima?
- ?Que influencia tu autoestima?
- ?Como puedes fortalecer tu autoestima?
- ?Por que es importante tener una autoestima positiva?"
Desarrollo Infantil (Infant Development)
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This fact sheet gives information about typical development of infants. The author includes a developmental milestone checklist, information about crying, sleeping, setting limits, and immunizations.
Developmental Milestones Infant (Guía de Desarrollo: Bebés)
Author: Kock, Jo Anne
Description: The first year of an infant's life is a time of amazing learning. This fact sheet lists developmental milestones for children birth through 12 months of age.
Also available in Spanish Guía de Desarrollo: Bebés at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/sl/2007/fs0703.pdf. 2007
Developmental Milestones Preschooler (Guía de Desarrollo: Niños Pequeños)
Author: Kock, Jo Anne
Description: A preschooler's life, ages 3 to 5 years, is a time of amazing learning and development. This fact sheet lists developmental milestones for children in this age range.
This is also available in Spanish, Guía de Desarrollo: Niños Pequeños at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/sl/2007/fs0705.pdf.
Developmental Milestones Toddler (Guía de Desarrollo: Niños Pequeños)
Author: Kock, Jo Anne
Description: A toddler's life, ages 12 to 36 months, is a time of amazing learning and development. This fact sheet lists developmental milestones for children in this age range.
Also available in Spanish (Guía de Desarrollo: Niños Pequeños) at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/sl/2007/fs0704.pdf. 2007
Author: Crawley, Connie
Description: These newsletter provide consumers with information on a wide variety of topics related to diabetes care.
Diapering Procedure/Procedimiento para cambiar panales
Description: This downloadable poster, written in English on one side and Spanish on the other, gives detailed instructions to the proper diapering of infants. The poster gives both pictures and written words to guide caregivers to the currently accepted method of diapering.
Description: This fact sheet tells you how to detect and prevent dehydration in babies with diarrhea and vomiting.
Disaster Preparedness for Families of Children with Special Needs
Author: Wells, Connie
Description: This preparation and planning guide will help you be better prepared, no matter what the emergency or disaster! Planning is important for all families and these materials will help you put a plan in place. Families with children with special needs have additional concerns that need to be addressed, in order to care for their children in an emergency. Checklists, supply lists, to do lists, and personal information forms are included. This guide is also available in Spanish at http://www.fifionline.org/resources/disaster_spanish.pdf
Diviértase al preparar alimentos con sus niños
Description: Mealtime can be an important family sharing time. Involve your children in planning, shopping for and preparing meals.
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about Down Syndrome. Included are a definition of Down Syndrome, incidence of occurance, characteristics, educational implications, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as El SÃndrome de Down.
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This four page brochure discusses six simple ways to help prepare your child for preschool and kindergarten. Discussion on skills that are needed and ways that you can support your child in developing those skills are provided.
Also available in Spanish (Antes de comenzar el preescolar y el jardín de infantes -- Aprendiza je Temprano) at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM2081A(S).pdf.
Effectively Teaching Tecnología en Español to Spanish Speakers
Author: Magaña, Mario
Description: Need technology education for Spanish speakers? Everything you’ll need, from finding the computer lab, to curriculum “en Español,” to effective recruitment and motivation strategies for kindergarteners to seniors. This computer lab demonstrates how to structure an effective community-based educational program “en Español” to teach web browsing, e-mail, desktop publishing, and office applications. (Computer lab taught in English.)
El Comportamiento Alimenticio de los Ninos (Child's Food Behavior)
Author: Peters, Paula; Susan Nitzke; Betty Krejci
Description: This article is from the Kids' Meal Times series and is in Spanish. It describes common food-related behaviors in children, such as only eating a favorite food, and how parents can respond.
El cuidado de documentos dañados durante una inundación
Description: Valuable documents should be protected from any disaster. If, however, they are damaged in a flood you can save them using the instructions in this fact sheet.
El cuidado de nuestros ancianos
Description: This factsheet explains how to help elderly family members live more happily, safely and comfortably.
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about emotional disturbance in children. Included are a definition of emotional disturbance, incidence of occurrence, characteristics, educational implications, other considerations, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as Problemas Emocionales.
Enseñando a los niños sobre la seguridad de los alimentos
Description: One of the best ways to teach food safety is to practice it and to be vocal about why it is being practiced. Help your children understand that although we cannot see germs, they can make us sick when food is contaminated. Use these ideas to create interest in developing healthy and safe food habits.
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about epilepsy in children. Included are a definition of epilepsy, incidence of occurrence, characteristics, educational implications, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as La Epilepsia.
Estrategias Disciplinarias Efectivas para los Niños (Effective Discipline for Young Children)
Author: Malley, Cathy
Description: EN ESTA SECCION APRENDERAS:
- A comprender mejor el com-portamiento de los ninos.
- Como prevenir el mal com-portamiento.
- Como manejar el mal com-portamiento.
- Que la disciplina le ensena a los ninos a como comportarse.
- Que hay muchas maneras acceptables de disciplinar. No hay ninguna estrategia que sea siempre la correcta.
Description: Extensión en Español is a grass roots organization of Extension educators which seeks to better serve Spanish-speaking clients by sharing expertise and materials across the Cooperative Extension System. See "Family and Personal" for a list of the publications available in Spanish.
Extension in Spanish / Extensión en Español
Author: Extension in Espanol, EEE Project Group; State Extension Services
Description: Extensión en Español is a grass roots organization of Extension educators which seeks to better serve Spanish-speaking clients by sharing expertise and materials across the Cooperative Extension System and maintain a national clearinghouse for Spanish-language educational resources operated by and for Extension professionals.
Description: This fact sheet tells you the importance fo feeding children with diarrhea and provides a list of good and bad things for them to eat.
Flu.gov: Know what to do about the flu
Description: This website from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services contains the latest information on the H1N1 flu. It includes information for families, people with health conditions, seniors, caregivers and travelers, as well as a state map for locating where the seasonal and H1N1 flu shots are available. Many resources are available in multiple languages.
For Kids' Sake: Think Toy Safety
Description: This publication is a guide to choosing, buying and maintaining toys for children and infants. Information on toy labeling and the Child Safety Protection Act is included. Also available in Spanish as "Por el Bien de los Ninos" at http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/SPANISH/281s.html.
A coloring book with English and Spanish titles is also available at http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/283.pdf.
Full Day Kindergarten (El kindergarten de día completo)
Description: This publication discusses full-day kindergarten programs including information on the characteristics of effective full-day kindergarten as well as its effects on learning. This publication is also available in Spanish as "El kindergarten de día completo" at http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/poptopics/fullday-sp.html.
Getting Ready for Kindergarten: What Parents Can Do
Description: This 2 page fact sheet offers tips for parents to help get their children ready for kindergarten.
Parents are their children's first teachers. Getting Ready for Kindergarten: What Parents Can Do is a resource that provides parents with suggestions for simple activities that parents and children can do together to develop children's oral language and foundational reading skills.
It is available as PDFs in English, Chinese, French, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Getting School Ready! Campaign
Description: The Foundation for Early Learning has a Getting School Ready campaign that focuses on what families, early childhood professionals, and schools can do to help children be ready for school and what schools can do to be ready for the incoming children. The suggestions attempt to close the "preparation gap" that too many of our children face. These resource booklets are available in the following languages: English, Spanish, Cambodian, Chinese, Russian, Somali, and Vietnamese. You may download copies or order free copies through this site.
Giving R Best 2 Kids: Development and Behavior - Biting (Dando Lo Mejor A Los Niños: El Morder)
Author: Byington, Teresa
Description: This brochure is intended for use with parents and caregivers. It provides general information on biting. It discusses causes of biting, what to do if biting happens, and how to prevent biting from happening in the future.
This is also available in Spanish, Dando Lo Mejor A Los Niños: El Morder, at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/cy/2007/fs0736.pdf. 2007
Author: Byington, Teresa
Description: This brochure is intended for use with parents and caregivers. It provides general information on temper tantrums. It discusses causes of tantrums, what to do if tantrums happens, and how to prevent tantrums from happening in the future.
This is also available in Spanish, Dando Lo Mejor A Los Niños: Berrinches at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/cy/2007/fs0737.pdf. 2007
Great Web Sites for Kids (American Library Association)
Description: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them. Sites for parents, caregivers, teachers and others who care about kids.
Grow With Your Teens & Teach Values/Crezca con su adolescente y enséñele valores
Author: Ihnen, Karen; Jodi Dworkin
Description: According to research, teens say that the beliefs, values and actions of their parents or close adults sink in. This fact sheet is available in both English and Spanish versions.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the second grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Growing Up - Grade 3 September
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the third grade.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the development of children in the first grade.
Guía para la Supervivencia Familiar: Si su Niño Desaparece
Description: This resource is a Spanish version of the article “Missing Children: Family Survival Guide” from the Department of Justice.
Description: (Spanish Version) This guide gives tips for parents to help their children cope with wildfires.
Guiding Young Children/Cómo guiar a los niños pequeños
Description: This fact sheet offers parents techniques to tell children what they can do instead of what they can't do.
H&R Block Tax Information in Spanish
Description: La información de impuestos del bloque de H&R.
Health Problems in African American Women
Description: This website provides information on the following common health problems found in African American women: asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, getting health care, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, HIV/AIDS, infant deaths, kidney disease, lupus, other cancers, overweight and obesity, pregnancy-related death, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), sickle cell anemia, smoking, stroke, tuberculosis, and uterine fibroids.
Healthy habits for Healthy Children (Hábitos Saludables para Niños Saludables)
Description: The guide speaks of the importance of the role of the family, of how to establish realistic objectives and understand the role of nutrition and physical activity. Aimed at children 4-12. Downloadable brochure.
Also available in Spanish at http://www.wellpoint.com/healthy_parenting/index_es.html.
Healthy Habits for Healthy Kid's: A Nutrition and Activity Guide for Parents
Description: Guide for parents that provides strategies for eating healthy and being physically active. Aimed at children ages 4-12. Downloadable brochure.
Description: Visit this Web page to read the Healthy K.I.D.S. newsletter series. Each issue covers several nutrition and exercise topics related to children. The newsletters are available in English and Spanish.
Description: Supported by a grant from MetLife Foundation and developed by clinicians from The Children's Health Fund's National Children's Health Project Network, the Healthy K.I.D.S. program consists of English and Spanish newsletters which provide simple, accurate and cultural information on nutrition and fitness. Healthy K.I.D.S. newsletters are produced in accordance with low literacy writing and design conventions. Authors strive to incorporate ethnic and cultural diversity into all content and illustrations. Materials are field tested within CHF's National Network and are reviewed by a medical anthropologist for cross-cultural appropriateness, and an exercise physiologist for safety.
Description: This booklet on caring for your eight-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Ocho Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/eightmonthspanish.pdf.
Description: This booklet on caring for your eleven-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Once Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/twelvemonthspanish.pdf.
Description: This booklet on caring for your five-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Cinco Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/fivemonthspanish.pdf.
Description: This booklet on caring for your four-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Cuatro Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/fourmonthspanish.pdf .
Healthy Start, Grow Smart - Your Newborn (Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - Su Recien Nacido)
Description: This booklet on caring for your newborn is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - Su Recien Nacido" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/newbornspanish.pdf.
Description: This booklet on caring for your nine-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Nueve Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/ninemonthspanish.pdf.
Healthy Start, Grow Smart - Your One-month-old (Buen Comienzo, Beun Futuro - El Bebe de Un Mes)
Description: This booklet on caring for your one-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Beun Futuro - El Bebe de Un Mes" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/onemonthspanish.pdf.
Description: This booklet on caring for your seven-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Siete Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/sevenmonthspanish.pdf.
Healthy Start, Grow Smart - Your Six-month-old (Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Seis Meses)
Description: This booklet on caring for your six-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Seis Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/sixmonthspanish.pdf.
Healthy Start, Grow Smart - Your Ten-month-old (Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Diez Meses)
Description: This booklet on caring for your ten-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futuro - El Bebe de Diez Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/tenmonthspanish.pdf.
Description: This booklet on caring for your three-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futura - El Bebe de Tres Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/threemonthspanish.pdf .
Description: This booklet on caring for your twelve-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo, Buen Futoro - El Bebe de Doce Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/twelvemonthspanish.pdf.
Healthy Start, Grow Smart - Your Two-month-old (Buen Comienzo. Buen Futoro - El Bebe de Dos Meses)
Description: This booklet on caring for your two-month-old is part of a series of booklets initiated by Laura Bush when she was First Lady of Texas. President and Mrs. Bush asked that the booklets be revised and distributed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Word document is also available for download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html. This publication is available in Spanish as "Buen Comienzo. Buen Futoro - El Bebe de Dos Meses" at http://www.ed.gov/espanol/healthystart/twomonthspanish.pdf.
Help Yourself to a Healthy Home: Protect your children
Author: Joseph, Wysocki
Description: Help Yourself to a Healthy Home: Protect Your Children's Health is a resource in the
Home*A*Syst tool kit. It is a 24-page booklet that can help you make sure your home is a safe and
healthy place to be.
Helping Children After a Disaster (Ayudando a los Niños Después de una Catástrofe)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece for parents who are helping a child cope after a disaster. Adults are not the only people that experience the stressful side effects that occur after a disaster, such as an earthquake, a death of a loved one, or living through a terrorist act. Children need special care and attention following these difficult times. Also available in Spanish, "Ayudando a los Niños Después de una Catástrofe" at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/ayudando_a_los_ninos_despues_de_una_catastrofe_no_36.
Helping Children Cope with Disaster
Description: This booklet by the American Red Cross offers parents, caregivers, and other adults suggestions on how to help children cope with the effects of disaster, as well as how to be prepared before a disaster strikes. Also available to download in Spanish at http://extensionenespanol.net/pubinfo.cfm?pubid=313
Helping Children Make Transitions between Activities
Description: Numerous times a day young children move from one activity to another in their early childhood classrooms. Each child reacts differently to transitions between activites. This brief discusses a scenario related to transitions.
Description: This 2-page publication shows how homework is an opportunity for children to learn and for families to be involved in their children’s education.
Description: Children are more likely to complete homework successfully when parents monitor their assignments.This 2-page publications provides tips on how to make sure the work is getting done.
Description: This 2-page publications will help with ideas for providing guidance without taking over your child's homework.
Description: This 2-page publications contains suggestions on how to show that you value education and homework and how to help your child succeed in school.
Helping Your Children Cope with Anger/Ayude a sus niños pequeños a controlar el enojo
Description: This fact sheet explains how adults can teach children the difference between feeling anger and acting on anger. Provides tips for helping children to handle their anger.
Description: Use this checklist to determine the safety of cribs and play yards (mesh cribs) in hotels and motels. Also available in Spanish as "Lista Comprobatoria de Seguridad de Cunas & Corralitos de Hoteles & Moteles" at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/spanish/hotelcribsp.pdf
How Can I Get My Credit Card Spending Under Control
Author: Martinez, Gayle Rose
Description: This fact sheet provides five tips to help you bring credit card spending under control.
How Can Parents Talk to their Teens?
Description: Tips for parents to talk to teens about sexual activity and teen pregnancy. Available in English and Spanish.
Description: This 3-page publication outlines methods for teaching respect, self-discipline, compassion, honesty and fairness, courage and other desirable character traits.
Ideas para Reuniones Familiares Exitosas
Description: This article discusses the benefits of family meetings and how to have successful meetings with your own family.
Immigration - Navigate the System/Imigración - cómo navegar el sistema
Description: If you have questions about immigration laws, you should contact an immigration lawyer or accredited representative.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This is a Spanish language fact sheet on infant development.
Información de la Seguridad Social en español
Description: Esta misión del website es promover la seguridad económica de la gente de nation.s con la dirección compasiva y vigilante en formar y el manejo de programas de la Seguridad Social de America.
Intellectual Disability (formerly Mental Retardation)
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about intellectual disabilities or mental retardation in children. Included are a definition, causes, diagnosis, incidence of occurrence, signs, educational implications, tips for parents and teachers, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish as El Retraso Mental.
Is Your Used Crib Safe? (Es Segura Su Cuna De Segunda Mano?)
Description: This poster presents safety issues to be aware of with used cribs. Also available in Spanish as "Es Segura Su Cuna De Segunda Mano?" at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/spanish/5020s.pdf
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the very beginning of school for very young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Description: This is a fact sheet that has information about the end their first year of school for young children.
Know What to Do About the Flu: A Guide for Individuals and Families
Description: This guide from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides information regarding the history of the flu in the United States, how to be prepared for a pandemic outbreak, what you can do to prevent the spread of the flu, and many other useful tips regarding this type of outbreak. Current information about flu's being reported in the United States. The site is also available in Spanish.
Description: Visit the Web site of La Leche League to learn more about breastfeeding. La Leche League was founded to give information and encouragement, mainly through personal help, to all mothers who want to breastfeed their babies. Links to La Leche's international sites in a variety of languages are provided from the home page.
Description: This fact sheet provides information on diets and exercise for the elderly.
La seguridad alimenticia durante las reuniones en días festivos
Description: Why is food safety especially important during the holidays? What foods should you be most concerned about? How can you keep holiday foods safe? Learn the answers to these questions and protect your family and friends from food-borne illness.
Description: This factsheet explores the value of mealtimes to the family unit and offers suggestions for making the most of this time spent together.
Las compras a plazos o por adelantado
Description: Layaway is a useful way of making a purchase, but there are important considerations when entering into this type of transaction.
Description: Buying by mail is an easy way to shop for some. It is important, however, to consider a few simple questions before placing an order.
Latino Parents: Unique Preferences for Learning About Parenting
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: A study looking at how to develop parenting programs for Latino parents. Latino families are a growing population in the U.S. and traditional parenting programs may need to be altered in order to produce the best parenting programs for their needs.
Description: This fact sheet describes the effects that lead exposure has on children's development and what should be done if you suspect your child has been exposed to lead. This publication is also available in Spanish as "La Exposicion de Ninos al Plomo Afecta su Cerbro y su Comportamiento" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/la_exposicion_de_ninos_al_plomo_afecta_su_cerebro_y_su_comportamiento_no_45.
Learn the Signs: Act Early - Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Description: This web site by CDC provides new data that show an average of 1 in every 110 children in certain parts of the United States has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The data also show that the average age at which children are diagnosed with an ASD is 4 1/2 years. This relatively late age of diagnosis is a reminder of how important it is to be aware of milestones that mark a child’s development and to act early if a delay is suspected. Acting early can make a real difference!
The site gives information to parents about developmental milestones for ages 3 months to 5 years.
Description: This briefing paper defines learning disabilities and discusses how often it occurs in the general population, what are signs of learning disability, how to work with your schools, and tips for parents. Also available in PDF and Spanish on this page.
Description: (Spanish Version) A guide for parents about helping children understand media coverage while limiting their exposure to distressing images of wildfire.
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece for parents that have a child in day care, or are currrently exploring the option. This piece provides some great guidelines to follow on what to look for, what would be beneficial for a child, and some tips that should not be overlooked. Also available in Spanish, Hacer de la Guarderia Infantil (Day Care Center) una Experiencia Positiva at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/hacer_de_la_guarderia_infantil_day_care_center_una_experiencia_positiva_no_20.
Mantente en Contacto (Keep in Touch)
Description: This brochure from the Family and Youth Services Bureau's National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth gives young people advice on staying connected and living independently once they are on their own.
Marijuana: Informacion para los Adolescentes (Marijuana: Facts for Teens)
Description: What is marijuana and how does it affect the user's everyday life? This colorful brochure answers these questions and many more. Marijuana: Facts for Teens also examines the short-term and long-term effects of marijuana use, signs that someone has been using marijuana, ways that marijuana affects driving ability, and possible harm marijuana use may do to a person's brain. (In Spanish. Also available in English).
Description: The MEDLINEplus Web site provides information about a variety of health and medical information. Visit this site to find drug information, look up a medical term, or find a doctor or hospital. A "Health Topics" area is also included. View the Spanish version from a link on the home page.
Métodos para educar a los niños
Description: This fact sheet explores basic "dos" and "don'ts" for parents raising young children.
Description: This section of the NWHIC web site addresses the most common health risks and concerns of minority women. Even though minority women have many of the same health problems as white women, they are in poorer health. Minority women use fewer health services and continue to suffer more from premature death, disease, and disabilities. Many also face huge social, economic, and cultural barriers to having life-long good health. Also, because minority groups are very diverse, even within one group, these women's access to health care, their health behaviors, and their health status can vary widely.
Description: El Plan MiPirámide puede ayudarlo a elegir los alimentos y las cantidades correctas para usted.
Description: Multilingual Living is a blog about raising bilingual children, with texts submitted by readers. There are many useful ideas and recommendations of textbooks, reading materials and more. For example, there is an idea by one of the readers about making up stories while listening to music in the car. The story can be in any language!
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Description: Explore this Web site for information on birth defects and developmental disabilities. A comprehensive series of fact sheets on various disabilities can be viewed online.
National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC)
Description: The primary objective of the National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) is to investigate and validate practices and strategies that enhance the early childhood transition process and support positive school outcomes for children with disabilities. This website provides families and educators with research and information about successful transitions for children with disabilities. Several materials are available in Spanish.
National Hispanic Family Health
Description: The mission of National Alliance for Hispanic Health is to improve the health and well-being of Hispanics. It is the nation’s oldest and largest network of
Hispanic health and human services providers.
National Mental Health Information Center
Description: This Web site is a source of mental health information for the general public. Use this site to access mental health publications, learn about various mental health campaigns, locate mental health services in your area, and find national hotline numbers. Some information is available in Spanish.
National Mental Health Information Center (info in Spanish) Vínculos En Español
Description: This Web site provides links to mental health resources from the National Mental Health Information Center in Spanish.
National Women's Health Information Center
Description: This website and toll-free call center were created to provide free, reliable health information for women. Includes information on heart disease, disabilities and pregnancy, as well as other important topics of interest to women. Health services information and resources are available in Spanish.
Nine Practical Points for Parents / Nueve puntos prácticos para padres
Description: This fact sheet gives parents some ideas to help their children have a good education at home.
Nuestras Hijas y Nuestros Hijos
Description: Preguntas y respuestas para padres de gays, lesbianas y bisexuals (en espanol)
Padres que trabajan: Combinando el trabajo y la familia
Description: It is important to balance your many roles: parent, spouse and worker.
Pandillas. ¿Qué pueden hacer los padres?
Description: This article discusses the danger of gangs and provides information on how parents can keep their kids safe.
Panic Disorder in Children and Adolescents (El Desorden del Panico en Ninos y Adolescentes)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has shared this piece so that parents and professionals are able to better recognize if their child may be suffering from extreme anxiety that would result in a panic disorder. Many people may experience symptoms such as: a racing heartbeat, lightheadedness, extreme anxiety, and intense fear. If this is your child, there is professional help. Also available in Spanish, El Desorden del Panico en Ninos y Adolescentes at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/el_desorden_del_panico_en_ninos_y_adolescentes_no_50.
Parenting the Second and Third Years (El Segundo y Tercer Ano del Nino)
Description: This series of newsletters for parents of toddlers offers month-by-month information on what to expect during the second and third years of parenting. Also available in Spanish as "El Segundo y Tercer Ano del Nino."
Pets and Children (Los Niños y los Animales Domesticados)
Description: Caring for pets may offer social and emotional benefits to young children. This fact sheet describes some of the benefits of pet ownership, how to choose a pet and suggests some guidelines for pet care. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Los Niños y los Animales Domesticados" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/los_ninos_y_los_animales_domesticados_pets_no_75.
Phonetics - the sounds of Spanish and English
Description: This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.
Positive Behavior Support: An Individualized Approach for Addressing Challenging Behavior
Description: For many children with challenging behavior, teachers are able to address the child's
needs and teach the child the expectations of the classroom. Unfortunately, there are a few children who do not respond to the teacher's efforts. These children continue to exhibit challenging behavior despite well-designed classroom environments and
the use of developmentally appropriate teaching and child guidance practices. This brief illustrates this dilemma.
Positive Discipline: A Guide for Parents
Description: Positive Discipline: A Guide to Parents is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 64 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary years. It gives parents ways to address behavior using positive discipline techniques to guide and teach their child(ren). It is filled with ideas that really work.
This printed booklet is available in English and Spanish for a small fee. Not available to download. Somali and Hmong versions are available free online as pdf.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Trastorno de Tension Postraumatica
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder for parents with children that may be suffering from PTSD. Just as adults may experience Posttraumatic Stress Disorder after a traumatic event, so might a child. This piece includes symptoms to look for in identifying PTSD as a possible problem, and options for parents with a child that is diagnosed. Also available in Spanish, Trastorno de Tension Postraumatica No. 70 at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Trastorno+de+Tension+Postraumatica+No.+70.
Prevent Child In-Home Drowning Deaths
Description: This fact sheet describes some drowning risks around the house that you may not be aware of and offers safety tips to prevent children from drowning. Also available in Spanish as "Prevenga Las Muertes De Niños Por Ahogamiento En El Hogar at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/spanish/drowns.html."
Description: This fact sheet provides some tips to prevent infection and spreading of diarrhea.
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Pyschiatry has provided this article on soiling and bowel control for parents. Children may have difficulty controlling their bowel movements for a variety of different reasons. This piece helps parents to identify some of the possible reasons and some potential solutions. Also available in Spanish, "Problemas Relacionados con el Ensuciarse Encima y el Control de los Movimientos Intestinales" at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/problemas_relacionados_con_el_ensuciarse_encima_y_el_control_de_los_movimientos_intestinales_no_48.
Description: This fact sheet is part one of a three-part series on the use of psychiatric medication for children. This publication gives an introduction to the topic and a list of problems for which medication might be prescribed to children. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Medicamentos Siquiatricos para Ninos y Adolescentes Parte I --Como se Usan los Medicamentos" at http://aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Medicamentos+Siquiatricos+Para+Ninos+y+Adolescentes+Parte+I+-+Como+se+Usan+los+Medicamentos.
Description: This fact sheet is part two of a three-part series on the use of psychiatric medication for children. This publication describes various types of medications which might be prescribed to children. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Medicamentos Siquiatricos para Ninos y Adolescentes Parte II --Clases de Medicamentos"at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/medicamentos_siquiatricos_para_ninos_y_adolescentes_no_29.
Description: This fact sheet is part three of a three-part series on the use of psychiatric medication for children. This publication has a list of questions for parents to ask in order to better understand their child's medication. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Medicamentos Siquiatricos para Ninos y Adolescentes Parte III --Preguntas Acerca de Ellos" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/medicamentos_siquiatricos_para_ninos_y_adolescentes_parte_iii_preguntas_acerca_de_ellos_no_51.
Qué significa ser padres? What does it mean to be parents?
Description: A guide for parents about how to be successful parents.
Description: This guide is for parents to help their children get the most out of reading, how to work with schools, and to effectively use the public library to support reading development.
Responding to Sexual Abuse (Respondiendo al Abuso Sexual a los Ninos y Adolescentes)
Description: The following piece has been provided by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a guide for parents, care givers, and teachers regarding how to respond to a child that discloses that they have been sexually abused. It is extremely important not to make judgmental comments or to place blame on the child, but simply to listen and help them out. Also available in Spanish, Respondiendo al Abuso Sexual a los Ninos y Adolescentes at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/respondiendo_al_abuso_sexual_a_los_ninos_y_adolescentes_no_28.
Description: This website is the Spanish version of the U.S. Social Security Administration website.
Description: This website is the Spanish version of the U.S. Social Security Administration website specifically for women.
Description: This fact sheet briefly explains some of the laws relevant to children with special needs in school, the evaluation process, and what parents can do to help their child. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Los Servicios que Proveen las Escuelas Para Los Niños con Necesidades Especiales: Lo que los Padres Deben Saber" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/los_servicios_que_proveen_las_escuelas_para_los_ninos_con_necesidades_especiales_lo_que_los_padres_deben_saber_no83.
Soft Bedding May Be Hazardous To Babies (La Ropa de Cama Puede Ser Peligrosa Para los Bebés)
Description: This safety alert from the Consumer Product Safety Commission explains safe bedding practices for infants under 12 months. The CPSC recommends that infants be put to sleep with no soft bedding of any kind because the bedding can become molded around the infant's face and cause suffocation. Also available in Spanish as "La Ropa de Cama Puede Ser Peligrosa Para los Bebés" at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/spanish/softbeds.html
Description: The Spanglish Baby is a website about raising bilingual children in Spanish and English. It is full of useful information. For example, a recent post by Monica Olivera Hazelton shared ways she is passing on her Latino heritage to her children, teaching them Spanish, and the method she is using to pass is to incorporate bilingual and bicultural children’s literature into their routine. She describes her preferences and how she uses the materials. Olivera Hazelton’s example is at http://www.spanglishbaby.com/2009/04/use-bilingual-and-bicultural-literature-to-enhance-language-learning/.
Author: Estrada, Michelle
Description: This website provides links to three newsletters covering topics on child development, home safety, and school.
Speech and Language Impairments
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about speech and language delays in children. Included are a definition, incidence of occurance, characteristics, educational implications, resources, and organizations. PDF and Spanish version available on this page.
Description: This fact sheet provides information for parents and others wanting to learn more about spina bifida. Included are a definition, incidence of occurrence, characteristics, educational implications, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish.
Starting School (Comienzo de la Asistencia a la Escuela)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the transition to school and how parents can best help their child make this transition. It offers sugestions of what to do if your child has difficulties making the transition and books to read to your child about starting school. Also Available in Spanish as "Comienzo de la Asistencia a la Escuela" at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Comienzo+de+la+Asistencia+a+la+Escuela+No.+82."
Su Familia: The National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
Description: The National Hispanic Family Health Helpline (1-866-783-2645) is a national helpline that offers consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English.
Description: This website contains information on these safety topics, providing age specific information where appropriate: sun protection, heat stress in exercising children, water safety, insect safety, playground safety, bicycle and other wheeled vehicles safety, and lawn mower safety. PDF available in Spanish.
Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments
Author: Notari-Syverson, Angela; Kristin Rytter, Ph.D
Description: These materials include 46 home and community activities for adults and children that encourage early language and literacy development in young children. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically. The materials are specifically designed to address the three key skills of 1) language development, 2) phonological awareness, and 3) general print awareness.
Talking To Kids About Mental Illnesses
Description: This publication explains to parents how to talk to their children about mental illness. This is also available in pdf.
Talking to Parents about Autism: Action Kit
Description: Today, 1 in 150 American children is diagnosed with autism. As an early childhood educator, you may be the first to notice when a child is not meeting typical developmental milestones. When this happens, you need to talk to the parents and urge them to have their child screened.
Now there are materials available to help you prepare for this important conversation. The Talking to Parents About Autism Action Kit contains the tools you need to initiate this critical dialogue. Having this conversation with parents can make all the difference in a child's life!
Talking with Kids About Health
Description: PBS has posted this Web site with dozens of links regarding issues of Health and Safety. This Web site provides informative pieces that will aid in parent's knowledge of health and saftey practices for their children.
Talking With Kids About HIV/AIDS (Spanish)
Description: This brochure provides suggestions for helping parents have age-appropriate discussions with their children about HIV/AIDS.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
The Adopted Child (El Nino Adoptado)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has shared this piece to help adoptive parents figure out what time is the best for them to tell their adopted child about the adoption. Currently, there are two conflicting theories about when the age appropriate time is to discuss adoption with children. This article provides an inside look on both theories. Also available in Spanish "El Nino Adoptado" at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/el_nino_adoptado_no_15.
The Anxious Child (El Nino Ansioso)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece with information for parents about what to do if they feel they have an overly anxious child. If a child consistantly begs to stay home from school, has extreme fears of being away from a parent etc., there may be a cause for concern about the child having extreme levels of anxiety. There is help for children who suffer from extreme anxiety, and in the long run it will help their social and emotional development if they recieve help at an early age. Also available in Spanish, El Nino Ansioso at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=El+Nino+Ansioso+-+No.+47
The Child With a Long-Term Illness (El Nino con una Enfermedad de Larga Duracion Cronica)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this article to discuss the difficulties that parents and children may face when a child has a long-term illness. Also available in Spanish, El Nino con una Enfermedad de Larga Duracion (Cronica) at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/el_nino_con_una_enfermedad_de_larga_duracion_cronica_no_19.
The Child With Autism (El Nino Autista)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this informative piece on Child Autism. This short piece describes possible symptoms and ways to identify if your child may be autistic. In addition, it provides suggestions for parents if their child is diagnosed as having Autism. Also available in Spanish, El Nino Autista at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=El+Nino+Autista+No.+11
The Child's Loss: Death, Grief and Mourning
Author: Perry, Bruce
Description: This article by Dr. Bruce Perry, discusses some of the key issues related to the child's complex set of reactions that often follow traumatic death. While focused on traumatic death, this information may be helpful to families, caseworkers, teachers and other adults working and living with any grieving children.
This simple guide is intended to inform and provide general principles. It is not intended to be comprehensive or to exclude other observations or approaches to helping grieving children.
Description: works to ensure that all children -- especially those at risk of being left behind -- have the resources and the opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives. Addresses issues of youth technology access and use.
The Depressed Child (El Nino Deprimido)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Pyschiatry has provided this piece on depression in children because the thought of depression occurring outside of adulthood or teenage years is often overlooked. Young children are not exempt of suffering from depression. This short piece provides symptoms to look for and options for parents that have a depressed child. Also available in Spanish, El Nino Deprimido at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/el_nino_deprimido_no_4.
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program
Description: This Web site provides information about hearing loss for parents, professionals and others. Research information, screening guidelines, fact sheets and FAQs are some of the resources available at this site. A Spanish version is available by clicking on the link "CDC en Español."
The Great Storm and Flood Recovery (also available in Spanish)
Author: Conner, Mike
Description: This story and activity book is intended to be used by children with adult supervision. It offers children an opportunity to discuss floods and how they feel about what happened to them. There is a adult/parent/teacher letter with instructions, included with the book. Also available in Spanish at http://www.mentorresearch.org/Documents/SpanishFlood%20StormRecoveryParenting.pdf.
The National Campaign Latino Initiative
Description: This webpage contains resources related to teen and unplanned Latino pregnancies including recent survey results from Latino teens and adults.
The Parent's Child Care Handbook/Guia de los Padres para el Cuidado del Niño
Author: Merk, Patricia
Description: This publication provides lists of things for parents to check for when examining a possible child care provider or day care center. It provides your child care choices in selecting quality care for your child. This publication is also in Spanish on this page.
Tips for Your Baby's Safety (Consejos para la Seguridad de su Bebe)
Description: Safety checklists for back carriers, bassinets and cradles, bath rings, changing tables, carrier seats, cribs, crib and other toys, gates, high chairs, pacifiers, playpens, strollers, and walkers are included in this comprehensive fact sheet. Also available in Spanish as "Consejos para la Seguridad de su Bebe" at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/spanish/200s.pdf.
Description: This fact sheet provides information for parents and teachers who are interested in learning more about traumatic brain injury (TBI). Included are a definition of TBI, frequency of occurrence, signs, tips for teachers and parents, resources, and organizations. Also available in PDF and in Spanish.
Description: This fact sheet describes factors that influence violent behaviors and discusses warning signs and prevention. Also available in Spanish as "Comprendiendo el Comportamiento Violento de Ninos y Adolescentes" at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Comprendiendo+el+Comportamiento+Violento+de+Ninos+y+Adolescentes+No.+55.
Using Classroom Activities and Routines as Opportunities to Support Peer Interaction
Description: Children with and without disabilities often lack key social skills necessary for success in preschool and later in life. In fact, research has indicated a strong relationship between low peer status in childhood and later problems in adolescence and adulthood...
What Every Parent Should Know About Lead Poisoning in Children
Description: This fact sheet provides statistics about lead poisoning and the health risks associated with lead poisoning. Information is provided in Spanish by following a link on this page.
What To Do If You Don't Like School
Description: Written for kids this short article addresses what to do if children do not enjoy school. It provides suggestions on identifying why and how to make the school environment more enjoyable.
What to Expect and When to Seek Help: A Bright Futures Developmental Tool for Families and Providers
Description: Based on Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health, the four developmental tools offer a framework for providers and families to begin a conversation together about how best to support healthy social and emotional development of children and teens. The tools gently encourage families who have any questions or concerns about their child's development to "check it out" and offer a number of tips for when, where, and how to seek help through local, state, or national resources.
Tools are available in download in PDF for Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Adolescence.
Description: This brochure is designed to help homeless parents get the most out of education for their children. It includes questions for parents to ask at school, the child's educational rights, and what should be done if you move. Also available in Spanish as "Lo que necesita saber para que sus ninos tengan exito en la escuela" at http://www.serve.org/nche/downloads/parentbrochure_sp.pdf.
When a Pet Dies (Cuando se Muere un Animal Domestico)
Description: This fact sheet describes how to help your child deal with the loss of a pet. This is often the first expereince children have with death and differs depending on the child's age. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Cuando se Muere un Animal Domestico" at http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/cuando_se_muere_un_animal_domestico_pet_no_78.
When to Seek Help for Your Child (Estar Preparando - Sepa Cuando Buscar Ayuda Paro su Hijo/Hija)
Description: This fact sheet offers a list of times when you should seek professional help for your child. There are seperate lists for young children and pre-adolescents or adolescents. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Estar Preparando - Sepa Cuando Buscar Ayuda Paro su Hijo/Hija" at http://aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Sepa+Cuando+Buscar+Ayuda+para+su+Hijo%2FHija.
Where we Stand on Learning to Read and Write (NAEYC & IRA 2005)
Description: This summary statement of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is an update from their 1998 position statement. It includes what current research has shown about learning to read and write and provides recommendations for supportive policies and resources.
A Spanish version is available at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/WWSSLearningToReadAndWriteSpanish.pdf.
Wildfires: Tips for Parents on Media Coverage
Description: A guide for parents about helping children understand media coverage while limiting their exposure to distressing images of wildfire.
Author: Martinez, Gayle Rose
Description: This fact sheet explains the factors that affect credit scores and provides tips for improving credit reports/scores.
¿Cuándo debe llamar al médico?
Description: No doctor wants to be called for every sniffle, but any doctor would rather have you call with a question, than let a problem become serious.
– Links, Other Resources –
American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Corner
Description: This Web page provides a list of publications and other links for families on a variety of safety and child development topics.
Description: The US Army has partnered with the Ad Council to develop a public service advertising campaign to demonstrate the importance of staying in school and obtaining a high school diploma. The site provides links to resources for mentoring programs, homework help, studying for college exams, applying for financial aid, and cultural and community groups for support and information about issues affecting youth. This site is available in English and Spanish.
Description: Campaign for Our Children’s Spanish Web site provides the Latino community with important preventative-health information.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Description: Learn about products recalled because of potential danger on this Web site. Information available in Spanish from a link on the home page.
Early Childhood Research and Practice
Description: Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP), a peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, covers topics related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age 8. ECRP emphasizes articles reporting on practice-related research and development, and on issues related to practice, parent participation, and policy. ECRP also includes articles and essays that present opinions and reflections, and letters to the editor. Beginning with the Spring 2004 issue (Vol. 6, No. 1), ECRP is a fully bilingual (English and Spanish) journal. The full-text articles are available to read on-line.
Description: Extensión en Español offers publications in Spanish on a host of topics, with links to other Spanish-language publication sites.
Description: Hurricane Katrina resources. This site includes materials in Vietnamese and in Spanish.
National Center for Health Statistics
Description: The National Center for Health Statistics website contains data on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. Also includes links to survey and data collection systems, news releases, CDC initiatives, and other publications
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Description: NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Their special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22). The Web site is available in Spanish by following a link from the home page.
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER)
Description: PACER Center is a parent training and information center for families of children and youth with all disabilities from birth through 21 years old in Minnesota.
Parents can find publications, workshops, and other resources to help make decisions about education, vocational training, employment, and other services for their children with disabilities. Some resources are available in Spanish and other languages.
Spanish Language National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Description: Accurate, up-to-date information on health issues affecting Hispanic seniors is now available online in Spanish from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The user-friendly website has information on a wide range of health topics, including diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
World Bank - Early Child Development
Description: This Web site provides resources and research information on early child development. Links and resources are also provided for countries outside of the United States. The Web site is also available in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.
– Other Resources –
Description: healthfinder.gov en español le ofrece la información más actualizada para que usted y sus seres queridos se mantengan saludables. [This site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides links to health information and resources in Spanish.]
Description: The Parenting Wisely (PW) Program is an interactive CD-ROM program designed for parents of adolescents and pre-adolescents (ages 9-18). It is a low-cost, effective, and entertaining form of intervention available to organizations and individual parents. Parents of adjudicated or high risk youth need to learn appropriate parenting skills, especially since these youth are challenging and can and do escalate their misbehavior when parents respond with coercion, threats, or permissiveness. Parenting Wisely program specifically for these families. It is a parenting and family living skills CD-ROM that trains parents to use good communication, discipline, supervision, and support. Available in Spanish and English.
– Professional Development –
Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment
Description: NAEYC's position statement recognizes that those who work with young children face many daily decisions that have moral and ethical implications. The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct offers guidelines for responsible behavior and sets forth a common basis for resolving the principal ethical dilemmas encountered in early childhood care and education. The Statement of commitment is not part of the Code but is a personal acknowledgement of an individual's willingness to embrace the distinctive vales and moral obligations of the field of early childhood care and education.
Also available in Spanish at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/conductaEtica.pdf.
Creating Home/Program Partnerships That Work: Supporting Children With Problem Behavior
Description: The transcript of this recent chat session is on home and program partnerships. This chat highlights issues faced by families and providers is working with challenging behaviors in children.
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Education Policy Analysis Archives
Description: Article highlights only. This site is a service of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes free access to all of this Web site and to daily electronic-mail updates.
Facts About Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) (La Verdad Del Sindrome De Bebe Sacudido)
Author: Kock, Jo Anne
Description: This brochure includes facts about Shaken Baby Syndrome. It provides information on physical damage, treatment, prognosis, and prevention.
This is also available in Spanish, La Verdad Del Sindrome De Bebe Sacudido (SBS) at http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/sl/2008/fs0803.pdf. 2008
Phonetics - the sounds of Spanish and English
Description: This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.
Where we Stand on Learning to Read and Write (NAEYC & IRA 2005)
Description: This summary statement of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is an update from their 1998 position statement. It includes what current research has shown about learning to read and write and provides recommendations for supportive policies and resources.
A Spanish version is available at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/WWSSLearningToReadAndWriteSpanish.pdf.
– Programming Resource –
1-2-3 Grow! 25-27 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer: 25-27 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents: 1-2-3 Grow! 25- to 27-month-old children are becoming more social and more ready to play with playmates. Routines are still important because they give toddlers stability when they are facing many new experiences. This issue shares tips for developing and sticking with good daily routines. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer: 25-27 Meses) at www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-05.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 12-15 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 12-15 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents: 1-2-3 Grow! This issue discusses development and parenting issues for toddlers aged 12-15 months. Topics include stress, routines, and individual differences, safety, toys & activities, just for parents. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 12-15 Meses) at http://www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-01.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 16-18 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 16-18 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents of toddlers. In this issue, parents learn about children aged 16-18 months. Topics include guidance, routines, sleep, friends and siblings. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 16-18 Meses) at www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-02.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 19-21 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 19-21 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents of toddlers.
19- to 21-month-old children are learning basic skills and exploring the world around them. This issue deals with questions about toddler teething, decisions about toilet training, ideas for toys that meet your growing toddler's needs, and ways to spark curiosity and keep a toddler busy for hours. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 19-21 Meses) at www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-03.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 22-24 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 22-24 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents of toddlers.At 22 to 24 months old, toddlers are excited about being able to better control themselves. This issue includes game and activity ideas for developing language skills and familiarizing toddlers with their body parts. The issue also discusses issues such as thumb-sucking and security blankets, as well as ways to encourage toddlers' budding independence and self-confidence. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 22-24 Meses) at
www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-04.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 28-30 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 28-30 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents: 1-2-3 Grow! At 28 to 30 months, toddlers can do more activities, such as naming and sorting shapes, as well as matching and game playing. This issue focuses on play activities that promote motor development, thinking skills, and self-esteem. The issue includes a basic play dough recipe and other fun tips. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 28-30 Meses) at www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-06.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 31-33 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 31-33 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents: 1-2-3 Grow! At this age, young children are preparing for preschool, and practicing pronunciation and new words. This issue describes toys and activities that encourage language development, such as telephones, books, and music. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 31-33 Meses) at www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-07.pdf.
1-2-3 Grow! 34-36 Months (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 34-36 Meses)
Author: Bower, Don
Description: One of a series of newsletters for parents: 1-2-3 Grow! Young children are learning to feed themselves, and to make food choices that affect their health. This issue includes information on your child’s nutritional needs, including a wide variety of foods that help build healthy eating habits. The article also includes ideas for preparing child-friendly meals and ways to involve your child in the preparation process. Also available in Spanish (1-2-3 a Crecer!: 34-36 Meses) at www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/PDF/CHFD-E-SP-40-08.pdf.
10 Maneras Para Ser Un Padre Mejor
Description: This article provides tips on how to be a good father.
12 alternativas para no lastimar a sus hijos (12 Alternatives to Lashing Out at Your Child)
Description: This article provides 12 alternatives to lashing out at your child.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This fact sheet is a Spanish version of the article "Preschooler Development". The translation was done by Melanie Eitzen.
Adolescentes y alcohol (Adolescents and alcohol)
Author: Nesbitt, Sheila
Description: A fact sheet in both Spanish and English about teens and alcohol and how to prevent underage drinking.
Description: Contains information on all aspects of adoption including strategies for coping, laws and policies, special conditions and information for parents raising adoptive children and teenagers. Available in English and Spanish.
Adults & Children Together Against Violence (ACT Against Violence)
Description: This is the Web site for ACT (Adults and Children Together) Against Violence. As a violence prevention project, ACT Against Violence offers information and resources for people who work with children age eight and younger. Information is available in Spanish by clicking on a button on the home page.
Ages and Stages: 18 to 24 Months (Edades & Etapas: 18-24 Meses)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for toddlers aged 18 to 24 months. Developmental milestones are listed for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Ideas are also included for interacting with children of this age. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: 18-24 Meses" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530C(S).pdf (2006).
Ages and Stages: 3-year-olds (Edades & Etapas: 3 Años de edad)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for children who are three years old. Developmental milestones are listed for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also given for interacting with children this age. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: 3 Años de edad" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530E(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 4-year-olds (Edades & Etapas: Cuatro Años de edad)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for four-year-olds. Developmental milestones are given for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also given for interacting with this age child. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: Cuatro Años de edad " at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530F(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 5-year-olds (Edases & Etapas: Cinco Años de edad)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for five-year-olds. Developmental milestones are given for intellectual development, physical development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also given for interacting with children this age. Also available in Spanish "Edases & Etapas: Cinco Años de edad" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530G(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 1-12 Months (Edades & Etapas: 1-12 Meses)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development of infants in their first year. Milestones are given for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also included for ways that caregivers can interact with infants. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: 1-12 Meses" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530A(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 12-18 Months (Edades & Etapas: 12-18 Meses)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes the typical development of young children aged 12 to 18 months. Developmental milestones are included for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Ideas are also included for interacting with a child this age. Also available in Spanish " Edades & Etapas: 12-18 Meses" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530B(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 2-year-olds (Edades & Etapas: 2 Años de edad)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for two-year-old children. Developmental milestones are given for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also given for interacting with children of this age. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: 2 Años de edad" at "http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530D(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 6-8 Years (Edades & Etapas: 6 a 8 Años de edad)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for children six to nine years old. Developmental milestones are given for intellectual development, physical development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also given for interacting with children this age. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: 6 a 8 Años de edad" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530H(S).pdf.
Ages and Stages: 9-11 Years (Edades & Etapas: 9 a 11 años de edad)
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This fact sheet describes typical development for children age nine through eleven. Developmental milestones are given for physical development, intellectual development, and social and emotional development. Suggestions are also included for interacting with children this age. Also available in Spanish "Edades & Etapas: 9 a 11 años de edad" at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530I(S).pdf.
Aprovechando la escuela al máximo
Description: This fact sheet provides tips for parents on how to help their teenagers make the most of school.
Baby's First Wish - 1 Year (Un ano de vida)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Un ano de vida" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span12.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 1 month (Los Bebes de 1 mes)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes your baby at one month old, and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as caring properly for yourself at this busy time. Also available in Spanish, Los Bebes de 1 mes at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span1.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 10 months (Los bebes de 10 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be ten months old and how you as a parent can best understand and respond to your baby's needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 10 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span10.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 11 Months (Los Bebes de 11 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be eleven months old and how you as a parent can best understand and respond to your baby's needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los Bebes de 11 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span11.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 13/14 months (Los ninos de 13 y 14 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirteen and fourteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los ninos de 13 y 14 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span13_14.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 15/16 months (Los ninos de 15 y 16 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifteen and sixteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los ninos de 15 y 16 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span15_16.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 17/18 months (Los ninos de 17 y 18 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be seventeen and eighteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los ninos de 17 y 18 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span17_18.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 19/20 months (Los ninos de 19 y 20 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be nineteen and twenty months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los ninos de 19 y 20 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span19_20.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 2 months (Los bebes de 2 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like for your baby at two months and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 2 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span2.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 21/22 months (Los ninos de 21 y 22 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-one and twenty-two months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los ninos de 21 y 22 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span21_22.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 23/24 months (Los ninos de 23 y 24 meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-three and twenty-four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los ninos de 23 y 24 meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span23_24.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 3 months (Los bebes de 3 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be three months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 3 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span3.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 4 months (Los bebes de 4 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 4 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span4.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 5 months (Los Bebes de 5 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be five months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los Bebes de 5 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span5.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 6 months (Los bebes de 6 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 6 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span6.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 7 months (Los bebes de 7 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be seven months old, and how you as a parent can best understand and respond to their needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 7 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span7.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 8 months (Los bebes de 8 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be eight months old and how you as a parent can best understand and respond to your baby's needs, as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 8 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span8.pdf.
Baby's First Wish - 9 months (Los bebes de 9 Meses)
Author: DelCampo, Diana; Hamilton, Wendy
Description: This publication describes what its like to be nine months old and how you as a parent can best respond to your baby's needs as well as your own. Also available in Spanish, "Los bebes de 9 Meses" at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/nmcyfar/documents/span9.pdf.
Description: This is the Web site fo the Barahona Center, an academic center at California State University San Marcos that promotes literacy in English and Spanish. The Center endeavors to inform current and future educational decision-makers about books centered around Latino people and culture and about books in Spanish and their value in education of English-speaking and Spanish-speaking children and adolescents
Author: Perry, Bruce
Description: This article is one in a series developed by the ChildTrauma Academy to assist
parents, caregivers, teachers and various professionals working with maltreated and
traumatized children. Also available in Spanish (Formacion de Vinculos y el Desarrollo de Apego en Ninos Maltratados) at http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/Attach_ca_sp.asp.
Brain Development (Desarrollo Cerebral Infantil)
Author: DeBord, Karen
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)
Building Positive Teacher-Child Relationships
Description: In early childhood settings, each moment that teachers and children interact with one another is an opportunity to develop positive relationships. Teachers can use a variety of strategies to build positive relationships with children.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This fact sheet is a Spanish version of the article “Bulliesâ€. The translation was done by Melanie Eitzen.
Capture the Power of a Spending Plan
Author: Martinez, Gayle Rose; Joan LeFebvre
Description: This fact sheet provides quick an desy ways to help you develp a successful spending plan
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Resources in Spanish
Description: This website from the Child Welfare Information Gateway, provides resources to support professionals in their work with Spanish-speaking families and community members. Selected publications on child abuse and neglect, prevention, adoption, and more are available in both Spanish and English.
Chiquillos en Accion: 18-24 Meses
Author: Ferrer, Millie
Description: Fact sheet on communication with children 18-24 months.
Ciencia Para Niños (Science for Kids)
Description: This site is the Spanish version of the Science for Kids site. It is designed to nurture an interest in science by explaining, often in playful ways, how science affects everyday life and why it can make an interesting career.
Circle of Inclusion (BIENVENIDOS AL CIRCULO DE INCLUSION)
Description: The Circle of Inclusion Web Site is for early childhood service providers and families of young children. This web site offers demonstrations of and information about the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight. The website is available in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish. Just go to the home page and click on the language link.
Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment
Description: NAEYC's position statement recognizes that those who work with young children face many daily decisions that have moral and ethical implications. The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct offers guidelines for responsible behavior and sets forth a common basis for resolving the principal ethical dilemmas encountered in early childhood care and education. The Statement of commitment is not part of the Code but is a personal acknowledgement of an individual's willingness to embrace the distinctive vales and moral obligations of the field of early childhood care and education.
Also available in Spanish at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/conductaEtica.pdf.
Description: This web site, available in Spanish and English, is for parents to help their child become a good reader and a successful student. This site is full of information, ideas, and practical tips on how Spanish-speaking parents can help their children become confident, successful readers. There are ideas on what to do at home, fun reading tips and activities, and much more.
Como Fortalecer la Autoestima? (How to Build Self-Esteem)
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley
Description: This is a fact sheet on the role of parents in building their children's self-esteem (adapted from A Study Group on Self-Esteem" by Ellen Rowe, University of Vermont Cooperative Extension).
Cómo Puede el Padre Ayudar con el Amamantamiento de su Bebé (How Dad Can Help with Breastfeeding)
Description: This article provides information on how fathers can help with breastfeeding.
Description: This article provides information on recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect.
Como ser un Buen Padre con un Presupuesto (Dad's Guide to Parenting on a Budget)
Description: This article provides advice on parenting on a budget.
Conduct Disorder (Desordenes de la Conducta)
Description: A fact sheet for parents describing conduct disorders. "Conduct disorder" refers to a group of behavioral and emotional problems in youngsters. Children and adolescents with this disorder have great difficulty following rules and behaving in a socially acceptable way. Also available in Spanish as "Desordenes de la Conducta" at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Desordenes+de+la+Conducta+No.+33
Consejos para ir de compras con niños (Tips for Shopping with Children)
Description: This article provides tips on how to go shopping with your child.
Consejos para los padres para prevenir la intimidación (Bullying Prevention Tips for Parents)
Description: This article provides information on how to prevent your child from bullying or being bullied.
Consejos Para Nuevos Padres (Parenting Tips for New Fathers)
Description: This article provides parenting tips for new fathers.
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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Consejos para salir a cenar con los niños (Winning Ways When Dining Out with Children)
Description: This article provides information on how to successfully dine out with children.
Contrato de la familia para la seguridad del Internet (Family Contract for Internet Safety)
Description: This article provides an example of a family contract for internet that you can use to keep your family safe.
Conversaciones con los ninos sobre el terrorismo
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet provides tips on how to talk with young children about acts of terroism and help them deal with associated fears and anxieties.
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith
Description: Judith Myers-Walls, a Purdue University Extension Specialist in child development and family studies, has researched children's reactions to wars and disasters and offers advice for helping children cope with the terrorist attacks, and their aftermath.
Cuando los Familiares Proporcionan Sus Cuidados de Guarderia Infantil
Author: Hirschy, Sharon
Description: This brief article gives parents suggestions for working out a child care arrangement with a relative as caregiver. (Note: Also available in PDF and in English as "When Relatives Provide Your Child Care" http://www.nncc.org/Choose.Quality.Care/relativeprov.html)
Cuando se Habla más de un Idioma en el Hogar
Description: This brief fact sheet gives multi-lingual parents suggestions for helping young children learn more than one language. (Note: This resource is also available in English as "When There is More Than One Language at Home")
Del corazón de los jóvenes: What Latino teens are saying about love and relationships
Description: “Rarely are teens themselves asked to share their thoughts and beliefs about issues that affect them. Del corazón de los jóvenes--which in English roughly translates to “youth speak from the heart”--gives both teens and parents a snapshot of what Latino teens* themselves say about relationships.”
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This fact sheet is a Spanish version of the article "Infant Brain Development." The translation was done by Melanie Eitzen.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This fact sheet gives information about typical development of preschool children. The author discusses development of the child's body, mind, social and emotional skills, moral awareness. She also discusses the importance of play for preschoolers' development. (Note: This resource is also available in English as "Preschooler Development" http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/humandev/preschooldev.html)
Disaster Preparedness for Families of Children with Special Needs
Author: Wells, Connie
Description: This preparation and planning guide will help you be better prepared, no matter what the emergency or disaster! Planning is important for all families and these materials will help you put a plan in place. Families with children with special needs have additional concerns that need to be addressed, in order to care for their children in an emergency. Checklists, supply lists, to do lists, and personal information forms are included. This guide is also available in Spanish at http://www.fifionline.org/resources/disaster_spanish.pdf
Effectively Teaching Tecnología en Español to Spanish Speakers
Author: Magaña, Mario
Description: Need technology education for Spanish speakers? Everything you’ll need, from finding the computer lab, to curriculum “en Español,” to effective recruitment and motivation strategies for kindergarteners to seniors. This computer lab demonstrates how to structure an effective community-based educational program “en Español” to teach web browsing, e-mail, desktop publishing, and office applications. (Computer lab taught in English.)
Description: This fact sheet discusses where lead may be found that can cause lead poisoning. There is also a DVD available to purchase at Lead: The Invisible Poison/ Plomo: El Veneno Invisible (DVD) ( has both an English and Spanish version)
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/HomeSafety/6581D.aspx.
Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres
Description: Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Spanish (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline.
Entérese, Involúcrese, y Ayude a su Hijo
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: Los padres de familia son los maestros, guías y abogados de mayor importancia para los niños. Este folleto es un a introduciósu tarea.n para ayudar padres a involucrarse en la educaciósu tarea.n y el cuido de sus hijos. Consejo especifico para padres incluye: cómo informar a la escuela cuando haya un cambio en la casa, por qué deben asistir a conferencias con los maestros, cómo entrar en confianza con el maestro, y cómo intervenir a favor de su hijo.
Entérese, Involúcrese, y Ayude a su Hijo (no logo)
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: Los padres de familia son los maestros, guías y abogados de mayor importancia para los niños. Este folleto es un a introduciósu tarea.n para ayudar padres a involucrarse en la educaciósu tarea.n y el cuido de sus hijos. Consejo especifico para padres incluye: cómo informar a la escuela cuando haya un cambio en la casa, por qué deben asistir a conferencias con los maestros, cómo entrar en confianza con el maestro, y cómo intervenir a favor de su hijo.
Estrategias para Padres (Quick Tips for Parents)
Description: This article provides tips for parents on listening, cooperation and punishment.
Evite el Envenenamiento con Plomo
Description: This fact sheet provides tips to use around the home to prevent lead poisoning. (Note: This resource is also available in English as "Preventing Lead Poisoning")
Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children
Description: Warmth and affection are aspects of positive teacher-child
relationships that are critical for children's well-being in early
education settings...
Description: Extensión en Español offers publications in Spanish on a host of topics, with links to other Spanish-language publication sites.
Extension in Spanish / Extensión en Español
Author: Extension in Espanol, EEE Project Group; State Extension Services
Description: Extensión en Español is a grass roots organization of Extension educators which seeks to better serve Spanish-speaking clients by sharing expertise and materials across the Cooperative Extension System and maintain a national clearinghouse for Spanish-language educational resources operated by and for Extension professionals.
Fathers and Father-Figures: Their Important Role in Children
Description: Over the past 50 years, the role of fathers and father-figures has changed dramatically. Early research centered on the role that fathers played in their children's gender identity and children's development. This brief takes a look at current information and applies it to a "real-life" scenario.
Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children: Labeling Emotions
Description: Emotional literacy is the ability to identify, understand, and respond to emotions in oneself and others in a healthy manner. This brief takes a look at this topic and gives adults ideas on how to foster emotional literacy.
Grow With Your Teens & Teach Values/Crezca con su adolescente y ensenele valores
Author: Ihnen, Karen; Jodi Dworkin
Description: According to research, teens say that the beliefs, values and actions of their parents or close adults sink in. This fact sheet for parents is available in both English and Spanish versions.
Guía de Disciplina Para Papá (Dad's Guide to Discipline)
Description: This article provides information for fathers on disciplining children.
Guía de Unión Para el Padre con su Bebé (Dad's Guide to Bonding with Baby)
Description: This article provides tips on how a father can bond with his baby.
Guía del Papá para Conseguirque el Bebé se Duerma (Dad's Guide to Getting Baby to Sleep)
Description: This article provides tips for fathers on getting their baby to sleep.
Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Promoting Healthy Weight in Children
Author: Berg, Francie; Jennifer Buechner, RD, CSP; Ellen Parham, PhD, RD
Description: These guidelines for obesity prevention programs encourage a health-centered, rather than weight-centered approach that focuses on the whole child - physically, mentally and socially.
Recommendations are directed toward program planners, teachers, parents, school staff and other health professionals who are concerned about children and weight.
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about parties.
Description: Supported by a grant from MetLife Foundation and developed by clinicians from The Children's Health Fund's National Children's Health Project Network, the Healthy K.I.D.S. program consists of English and Spanish newsletters which provide simple, accurate and cultural information on nutrition and fitness. Healthy K.I.D.S. newsletters are produced in accordance with low literacy writing and design conventions. Authors strive to incorporate ethnic and cultural diversity into all content and illustrations. Materials are field tested within CHF's National Network and are reviewed by a medical anthropologist for cross-cultural appropriateness, and an exercise physiologist for safety.
Heartland Family Child Care Handbook
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia
Description: This book, previously called the Iowa Family Child Care Handbook, has been updated. It includes expanded information on toys, books, equipment, and how to organize your home and your day for family child care. Business, nutrition, health and safety, and child development info also included. It now includes a CD with additional resources for providers and parents. There is a $10 charge for this publication.
Also available in Spanish Manual Heartland para el Cuidado Familiar de Niños at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/store/ItemDetail.aspx?ProductID=12713&SeriesCode=&CategoryID=7&Keyword=.
Helping Children Express Their Wants and Needs
Description: Communication is the process of exchanging meaning between
individuals by talking or using body language, gestures (pointing, reaching, or giving), facial expressions, joint attention (sharing attention, directing the attention of another person, or following the attention of another person), and vocalizations (grunts and cries). Children need to communicate to get materials, activities, attention, or assistance from others. This brief discusses some of the ways this can be achieved in the classroom environment.
Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior
Description: Painting at an easel, playing a game on a classroom computer, doing a puzzle, and playing on a swing are all examples of preschool activities that young children enjoy. But these activities have something else in common. They are all primarily done individually, limiting the child's opportunities for positive peer social interactions. This brief goes through a typical scenario and discusses how to promote positive social interactions
Helping Children Understand Routines and Classroom Schedules
Description: A consistently followed schedule helps make settingspredictable for both young children and adults. Routines are events that are completed on a regular basis, frequently involving
a series of responses. This brief discusses the issue of routines through a typical scenario in a preschool classroom.
Helping Your Child Become a Reader: With Activities for Children from Infancy Through Age 6
Author: DeBruin-Parecki, Andrea
Description: The booklet is designed for helping children from infancy to age 6--the most important years for learning the skills they will need to become readers. It offers parents suggestions on how to: talk with their children; read aloud with him/her; help him/her learn about printed words and what they mean; show her/him that they value reading; and do other activities at home that encourage reading. To help show when children can take certain learning steps, the booklet ties much of the discussion to four age groups: baby (birth to 1 year); toddler (1 to 3 years); preschooler (ages 3 and 4); and kindergartner/early first grader (ages 5 and 6). A section discusses "If You Think There's a Problem." Contains a reading checklist, a list of typical language accomplishments for children, resources for families and caregivers, resources for children, and an 11-item bibliography. Also available in Spanish.
To order copies go to http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/reader/part1.html.
Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
Description: The major portion of this booklet is made up of fun activities that parents can use with children from preschool age through grade 5 to strengthen their math skills and build strong positive attitudes toward math.
Also available in Spanish.
Helping Your Child Learn Science
Description: This booklet provides parents of children ages 3 through 10 with information, tools and activities they can use in the home and community to help their child develop an interest in the sciences and learn about the world around them.
Also available in Spanish.
How Can I Get My Credit Card Spending Under Control
Author: Martinez, Gayle Rose
Description: This fact sheet provides five tips to help you bring credit card spending under control.
Author: Hirschy, Sharon
Description: This fact sheet contains information on how employers can be "family friendly" and what parents can do to assist their employer in the process of becoming "family friendly." There are links to other sites and resources for further information. (Note: This resource is available in Spanish as "Cómo puedo ayudar a mi patrón a ser más favorable hacia la familia?" at http://www.nncc.org/EO/FamFriendSpan.pdf.)
How to Get Informed, Involved, and Really Help in your Child's Education (no logo)
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: Parents are children's most import teachers, advisers, and advocates. This handout serves as an introduction to help parents become more involved in their child's education. Specific advice for parents includes: how to inform schools about child attendance, why they should attend parent conferences, how to get to know teachers, and how to speak up for their child. (Can be modified to include your own logo or contact information.)
íCálmate mama! íEs solamente marihuana!
Description: This fact sheet gives advice for parents who learn their teens are smoking marijuana.
Author: Zelasko, Nancy; Antunez, Beth
Description: A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. This guide, in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese, aims to inform parents of students who have learned or are learning English as a Second Language about appropriate approaches for educating children so that they can work with schools to ensure a high quality education for their children. The emphasis is on explaining the laws, schools, and research related to the education of the English language learners (ELL).
Infant and Toddler Language and Early Literacy Activities
Author: Notari-Syverson, Angela; Rytter, Kristin; Challoner, Judy; Hedlund, Rodd
Description: These materials include twenty home and community activities for adults and children birth to three that encourage early language and literacy development. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically.
Each of the twenty activities includes an activity description, and hints for making the activity fun and developmentally appropriate. In addition to the activities, you can download an activity checklist that helps parents and caregivers notice their children'
s skills, and also cue adults to examine and grow their own interactions with children. Available in English and Spanish.
La Buena Disciplina es Guiar y Enseñar a los Niños
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about recommended do's and don't's when disciplining children. (Note: This resource is also available in English as "Good Discipline is Guiding and Teaching the Children")
Description: This site provides video-based early language programs, "Talking and Books" and "Talking and Play". Cost for materials.
Available in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Filipino. Each version features parents and children who are native speakers of each language. All versions of Language is the Key programs are available in DVD and VHS format.
Free activity resources also available at this website.
Description: This brief discusses Logical Consequences through the illustration of two "real-life" scenarios.
Loteria de Diabetes - Diabetes Bingo
Author: Driscoll, Debra
Description: Loteria de Diabetes/Diabetes Bingo is designed for use by both novice and experienced educators. The objective is to create awareness of: The different types of diabetes, possible symptoms, Diabetes' effects on the body, Disease prevention strategies, Disease management techniques, and how family members can support the person with diabetes
Description: This newsletter series reinforces the importance of the Food Guide Pyramid and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It contains information especially useful to those participating in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. Recipes and meal ideas are included.
Description: Money Talks is a financial management web site for teens. It is dedicated to providing teens with the information needed to make wise money decisions, including games, videos, and links. Both English and Spanish versions of the site are available.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Description: The NAMI Web site promotes NAMI's mission of equitable services for people with mental illnesses. Sections on support, public policy, education and research are included. You can also visit the Spanish section of the site by a link on the home page.
No hay lugar como el hogar para la educacion sexual
Author: Gossart, Mary; Bojana Stefanovska
Description: The Spanish version of "There's No Place Like Home" consists of reproducible parent newsletters to assist parents in their unique role as the primary sexuality educator of their children. Five newsletters are available for every age/grade level, pre-school through grade twelve. Each issue contains relevant, age-specific sexuality information, useful strategies, communication hints, and suggested resources to support parents in their efforts. Also available in English.
Description: This site lists 4-H publications in Spanish, organizations that work with Latino populations, and publications dealing with issues of interest to Latino populations. The Oregon Outreach Project is designed to increase the outreach efforts of Oregon State University Extension to Oregon's Latino/Hispanic community.
Padres y adolescentes hablan ( Parents' and Teens' Talk)
Description: This article provides tips on how to keep open communication between parents and teens.
Description: The Parenting Wisely (PW) Program is an interactive CD-ROM program designed for parents of adolescents and pre-adolescents (ages 9-18). It is a low-cost, effective, and entertaining form of intervention available to organizations and individual parents. Parents of adjudicated or high risk youth need to learn appropriate parenting skills, especially since these youth are challenging and can and do escalate their misbehavior when parents respond with coercion, threats, or permissiveness. Parenting Wisely program specifically for these families. It is a parenting and family living skills CD-ROM that trains parents to use good communication, discipline, supervision, and support. Available in Spanish and English.
Description: This article discusses how parents can talk to their children about not drinking.
Plátique sobre el tabaco (Teens--tobacco talk)
Author: Chiezah, Michelle; Laurie Meschkle
Description: A fact sheet in both Spanish and English about smoking myths and facts and talking to teens about tobacco.
Pongase al frente y Lleve la Delantera (Take the Lead)
Description: Take the Lead: Inspirational Young People Tell Their Stories highlights the achievements of young people—some who have served as mentors, others who have turned their lives around, and all who have proven to be leaders in their respective communities. (Also available in English)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips to use around the home to prevent lead poisoning. (Note: This resource is also available in Spanish as "Evite el envenenamiento con plomo")
Promoting Positive Peer Social Interactions
Description: Positive social interactions are interactions that take place between peers that are positive in nature and successful for both children involved. These peer interactions are important
because they lead to positive social and emotional development in children.
Protect Your Baby's Teeth (Proteja los dientes de su bebe)
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about early dental care for infants and toddlers. This resource is also available in Spanish: Proteja los Dientes de su Bebe at this URL.
Proteja a Sus Niños de los Venenos en el Hogar
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents information about substances in the home that are poisonous to children if ingested. Suggestions are given for poison-proofing the home. (Note: This resource is also available in English as "Protect Your Children From Poisons At Home")
Servicios para Familias Latinas en Carolina del Norte
Description: This brochure discusses various services available to Latino Families.
SIECUS Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
Description: Provides information to help parents discuss healthy sexual development and sexuality issues with their children. Resources are available in both English and Spanish.
Sintonizándose con sus hijos adolescentes (Tuning in to Your Teens)
Description: This article explains common teenage behaviors and how to deal with these behaviors.
Sólo Estoy Enamorada, ¡No me Voy a Embarazar!
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about sex.
Spanish Language National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Description: Accurate, up-to-date information on health issues affecting Hispanic seniors is now available online in Spanish from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The user-friendly website has information on a wide range of health topics, including diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes.
Spanish Translation of Ohio Cloverbuds
Author: Scheer, Scott; Nieto, Ruben; Castro, Sergio; Konen, Joseph
Description: Cloverbud program curriculum materials include short term, fun, cooperative, noncompetitive activities that can be used by adult volunteers with Cloverbud youth (5- 8 years-old) to help them gain self-confidence, experience achievement, and develop positive attitudes. Subject areas of science and technology, expressive arts, health, the environment, personal development, citizenship, family science, consumerism, plants and animals.
State Fact Sheets for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
Description: This site links to fact sheets created by the Children's Defense Fund, AARP, Casey National Center for Resource Family Support, The Brookdale Foundation, Child Welfare League of America, Generations United, The Urban Institute and Johnson & Hedgpeth Consultants that provide up-to-date state information related to kinship care. Fact sheets for every state and the District of Columbia are available in both English and Spanish.
Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments
Author: Notari-Syverson, Angela; Kristin Rytter, Ph.D
Description: These materials include 46 home and community activities for adults and children that encourage early language and literacy development in young children. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically. The materials are specifically designed to address the three key skills of 1) language development, 2) phonological awareness, and 3) general print awareness.
Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments
Author: Notari-Syverson, Angela; Rytter, Kristin; Challoner, Judy; Haetig Sadler, Faith; Sook Lim, Young; Sturm, Marilyn; Hedlund, Rodd
Description: These materials include 46 home and community activities for adults and children that encourage early language and literacy development. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically. Each of the twenty activities includes an activity description, and hints for making the activity fun and developmentally appropriate. In addition to the activities, you can download a self-evaluation form that helps parents and caregivers notice their children' s skills, and also cue adults to examine and grow their own interactions with children. Available in English and Spanish.
Talking To Kids About Mental Illnesses
Description: This publication explains to parents how to talk to their children about mental illness. This is also available in pdf.
Talking With Kids About HIV/AIDS (Spanish)
Description: This brochure provides suggestions for helping parents have age-appropriate discussions with their children about HIV/AIDS.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
Description: works to ensure that all children -- especially those at risk of being left behind -- have the resources and the opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives. Addresses issues of youth technology access and use.
The Parent's Child Care Handbook/Guia de los Padres para el Cuidado del Niño
Author: Merk, Patricia
Description: This publication provides lists of things for parents to check for when examining a possible child care provider or day care center. It provides your child care choices in selecting quality care for your child. This publication is also in Spanish on this page.
Description: This Brief provides an overview of a comprehensive approach to supporting children's behavior and discusses the role of time-out in the context of a comprehensive approach. Although time-out has been demonstrated to be effective in some situations, it should not be overused and should be reserved for high-intensity behaviors such as
aggression toward peers and adults and destructive behavior. Because of a lack of evidence to support its use with very young children as well as the research on the social-emotional development of very young children, the use of time-out with infants and young toddlers is not recommended.
Thrive by Five (TM): Teaching Your Preschooler About Spending and Saving
Description: Thrive by Five (TM): Teaching Your Preschooler About Spending and Saving--free activities and other resources for parents who want to encourage healthy attitudes about money in young children.
Description: This safety-themed coloring book is intended to help children learn toy safety concepts. It is written in both English and Spanish. There are twelve different pictures to color.
Trabajo y familia de la navegación
Author: Shaklee, Harriet
Description: Desarrollaron el trabajo y a la familia de la navegación para apoyar a familias de trabajo en las decisiones que hacen frente sobre vida de familia. La serie de 10 folletos puede ser un recurso útil para las escuelas, servicio social y los ajustes los centros del asesoramiento, los centros de información del padre, los centros tempranos de la niñez, y del trabajo.
Tras la Tormenta: Ayudando a sus Niños (Child Stress)
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: This news release discusses the effects of a natural disaster on children and provides suggestions for parents to help children through the resulting stress.
Author: UNITED NATIONS, Headquarters,
Description: Project is "to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization." Create a model UN; youth have access to country profiles, a well-written introduction to the history and work of the United Nations, some fun quizzes and the Urban Fact Game. Includes helpful curriculums (such as racial discrimination) and age- appropriate briefing papers. In English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic.
Description: This article provides ideas on what a dad can be and examples on how a dad can be involved.
Understanding the Impact of Language Differences on Classroom Behavior
Description: It is often challenging to work with a new child, whose primary language is not English, when integrating them into the classroom environment. This brief describes a common situation and the ways to handle what could be a frustrating situation for both child and teacher.
USA.gov for Nonprofits Gateway
Description: The FirstGov NonProfit Gateway. It is designed as a central starting point to help nonprofit organizations access online Federal information and services. Linked to all Cabinet Departments and many agencies, it contains information about grants, regulations, taxes, and other services as well as information on a wide range of other topics and programs.
Author: Varcoe, Karen
Description: Making a spending plan and sticking to it can help your family live better on the money you have.
Using Choice and Preference to Promote Improved Behavior
Description: This brief uses are "real-life" scenario to discuss and explain the effects of the Choice-Making Strategy to promote positive behavior.
Using Environmental Strategies to Promote Positive Social Interactions
Description: Painting at an easel, playing a game on a classroom computer, doing a puzzle, and playing on a swing are all examples of preschool activities that young children enjoy. But these activities have something else in common. They are all primarily done individually, limiting the child€™s opportunities for positive peer
social interactions. This brief goes through a typical scenario and discusses how to promote positive social interactions
Using Functional Communication Training to Replace Challenging Behavior
Description: This brief discusses Functional Communication Training (FCT). FCT is a strategy for use with children who require a more individualized intervention approach because they continue to exhibit challenging behaviors even when classroom-wide prevention strategies are in place (for example, classroom rules, consistent schedules, predictable
routines).
Usted, su Niño, y La Disciplina Positiva
Author: Bailey, Cindee; L. Burt
Description: This fact sheet suggests positive discipline techniques that parents can use to encourage positive behavior. Includes activities and suggestions on further reading. (in Spanish)
Violencia domestica en las relaciones
Author: Dworkin, Jodi
Description: This fact sheet provides a overview of dating violence (in Spanish).
Washing Your Hands/Lavado de Manos
Description: This printable poster gives the step-by-step instructions to proper handwashing. The poster shows pictures, as well as describes, the currently recommended handwashing technique. This poster is written in English on one side and Spanish on the other side.
What are Children Trying to Tell Us?
Description: Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) is used to understand
the purpose or function of a specific problem behavior exhibited
by a child. This brief discusses FBA in the context of a "real-life" scenario.
Author: Hirschy, Sharon
Description: This brief article gives parents suggestions for working out a child care arrangement with a relative as caregiver. (Note: This resource is also available in Spanish as "Cuando los Familiares Proporcionan Sus Cuidados de Guarderia Infantil")
When the Children Start School
Description: This brief fact sheet gives parents suggestions of activities that they can do with their children to help prepare them for kindergarten. Also available in PDF in English and Spanish
Where we Stand on Learning to Read and Write (NAEYC & IRA 2005)
Description: This summary statement of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is an update from their 1998 position statement. It includes what current research has shown about learning to read and write and provides recommendations for supportive policies and resources.
A Spanish version is available at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/WWSSLearningToReadAndWriteSpanish.pdf.
Author: Martinez, Gayle Rose
Description: This fact sheet explains the factors that affect credit scores and provides tips for improving credit reports/scores.
¿Conoce Usted Bien a Sus Hijos? (How Well Do You Know Your Child)
Description: This article provides some questions to help you and your child get to know each other better.
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"Head Start on Science" Preliminary Findings
Description: This research paper was presented as a poster session at the Head Start National Research Conference in 1998. The paper describes the findings of the implementation of a science curriculum in Head Start classrooms. The purpose of this project--a collaborative effort of California State University, Long Beach and the Head Start Program of Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD)--was to prepare Head Start staff to become more capable, comfortable, confident, and enthusiastic about their own and their Head Start families'"sense of wonder" about the world through hands-on science experiences.
Early Childhood Research and Practice
Description: Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP), a peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, covers topics related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age 8. ECRP emphasizes articles reporting on practice-related research and development, and on issues related to practice, parent participation, and policy. ECRP also includes articles and essays that present opinions and reflections, and letters to the editor. Beginning with the Spring 2004 issue (Vol. 6, No. 1), ECRP is a fully bilingual (English and Spanish) journal. The full-text articles are available to read on-line.
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Description: Article highlights only. This site is a service of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes free access to all of this Web site and to daily electronic-mail updates.
National Center for Health Statistics
Description: The National Center for Health Statistics website contains data on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. Also includes links to survey and data collection systems, news releases, CDC initiatives, and other publications
Author: Ariel, Janet
Description: This is a summary of research on raising teenagers. In Spanish.