Resources

General Parenting Resources
Understanding Your Child’s Unique Temperament
Understanding Children’s Development
Monthly Parent Newsletters and Booklets Available Online
Supporting Emotional Development
Understanding and Nurturing Your Infant - Birth to 18 Months
Understanding and Nurturing Your Toddler – 18 to 36 Months
Understanding and Nurturing Your Preschooler – ages 3, 4 and 5
Understanding and Nurturing Your School Age Child
How Television and other Media Influence Learning and Behavior
Children Learn Through Play
Helping Children Learn Language
Vision, Hearing and Speech
Getting Ready for School Success
Setting Limits and Guiding Behavior

General Parenting Resources

Ohio Online – Family and Child Development Fact Sheets
http://ohioline.osu.edu/lines/fami.html#CHILD-DEV

Goddard, H. Wallace. The Challenge of Being a Parent.
http://www.humsci.auburn.edu/parent/challenge/index.html

Zero to Three: Parenting A-Z
http://www.zerotothree.org/ztt_parentAZ.html

North Carolina’s Smart Start Tips for Parents
http://www.smartstart-nc.org/tips/main.htm

Understanding Your Child’s Unique Temperament

Goodman, Robin F. and Anita Gurian. Parenting Styles/Children’s Temperaments: The Match.
http://aboutourkids.org/articles/parentingstyles.html

Graham, Judith. Temperament. Univerity of Maine Extension Service
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4358.htm

The Preventive Ounce. All About Children’s Temperament
http://www.preventiveoz.org/aboutemp.html

The Preventive Ounce. Create an interactive temperament image of your child.
http://www.preventiveoz.org/image.html

Temperament.
http://www.zerotothree.org/tips/TEMPERAM.HTM

Wikoff, Lynne. “Adapt Your Parenting Style to Your Child’s Inborn Temperament.”
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Sep/24/924islandlife35.html

Understanding Children’s Development

Ages and Stages.: Birth through five years
http://literacynet.org/parents/agesandstages.html

Developmental Milestones: How I Grow In Your Care. Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/dev_miles.html. Includes handouts for birth to 8 months, 9-18 months and 18 months to three years. Also in Spanish

Monthly Parent Newsletters and Booklets Available Online

The Growing Years: Prenatal through Five Years. University of Maine Extension Service.
http://www.umext.maine.edu/parentcenter/parents/tgy.htm

Healthy Start, Grow Smart. Twelve booklets covering the first year of life.
http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/healthystart/index.html
English and Spanish.

*Lerner, Claire. The Magic of Everyday Moments. Zero to Three. Five booklets covering 0 – 15 months.
http://www.zerotothree.org/magicSpanish and English.

Oesterreich, Lesia. Zero to One: News about Infants During the First Year. Iowa State University Extension Service. Scroll down to Parenting Newsletters.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/childcare/publications.html#children

Parent Express Newsletters – Prenatal through Thirty-Six Months. University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/fcs/resource/publist/parenting.htm#express

Take Time for Kids. Newborn – Twelve Months. Texas Department of Health, 2001
http://www.csuchico.edu/~mtomita/border/volume1/texaskids.htmSpanish and English.

Zero to Three: Brain Wonders
http://www.zerotothree.org/brainwonders/parents.html

Zero to Three: Healthy Minds
http://www.zerotothree.org/healthyminds/

Supporting Emotional Development

The Magic of Every Day Moments: Zero to Three
http://www.zerotothree.org/magic/

National Association of School Psychologists. “A National Tragedy: Helping Children Manage Strong Emotional Reactions: Tips for Parents and Teachers.”
www.nasponline.org/NEAT/anger.html - anger in adults and children

Relating to Others.” Tips from Head Start, The Emotional Foundations of School Readiness.
www.zerotothree.org/tips/RELATE.htm

Stern, Robin. “Social and Emotional Learning: What Is It? How Can We Use It to Help Our Children?”
www.aboutourkids.org/articles/socialemotional.html

Understanding and Nurturing Your Infant - Birth to 18 Months

*Developmental Milestones: How I Grow In Your Care. Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/dev_miles.html
Includes handouts for birth to 8 months, 9-18 months and 18 months to three years. Spanish and English.

Oesterreich, Lesia. Iowa State University Extension Service.
Ages and Stages 1-12 Months.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530A.pdf

Ages and Stages 12-18 Months.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530B.pdf

*Reading Your Baby’s Signals Birth to Eight Months. Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/tips/0-8months.html

Eight to Eighteen Months.
http://www.zerotothree.org/tips/8-18months.html

Understanding and Nurturing Your Toddler – 18 to 36 Months

*Developmental Milestones: How I Grow In Your Care. Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/18_3years.html
Spanish and English.

Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Development. 18-24 Months; 24-36 Months. Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/healthyminds/
Two page handouts in both English and Spanish, which may be copied as is and distributed for non-profit, educational purposes.

Oesterreich, Lesia. Iowa State University Extension Service.
Ages and Stages: 18-24 Months.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530C.pdf

Ages and Stages: Two Year Olds.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1530D.pdf

Understanding Children: Biting.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529A.pdf

Disciplining Your Toddler
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529C.pdf

Temper Tantrums
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529J.pdf

Toilet Training
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529K.pdf

*Reading Your Baby’s Signals – Eighteen to Thirty-Six Months. Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/tips/18-36months.html

Understanding and Nurturing Your Preschooler – ages 3, 4 and 5

DeBord, Karen. Preschool Development. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/human/preschooldev.html

Halliburton, Amy. How Children Develop During the Preschool Years.

Malley, Cathy. Preschooler Development.
http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/presch.dev.html

Oesterreich, Lesia. Iowa State University Extension Service.

Your Three Year Old: Ages and Stages
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/PM1530E.pdf

Your Four Year Old: Ages and Stages
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/PM1530F.pdf

Your Five Year Old: Ages and Stages
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/PM1530G.pdf

Understanding and Nurturing Your School Age Child

Continuing on Track…As Your Child Grows and Learns Ages 5 through 9.
http://www.kidsource.com/education/on.track.html

Oesterreich, Lesia. Ages and Stages—6 to 8 Year Olds. National Network for Child Care.
http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/ages.stages.6y.8y.html added

Play and the School-Age Child. University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/8048.htm

How Television and other Media Influence Learning and Behavior

Excessive TV viewing at a young age may play role in ADD.
http://www.limitv.org/tvaddadhd.htm

How Television Viewing Affects Children. University of Maine Cooperative Extension
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4100.htm

Media Violence and Children at Home
http://www.actagainstviolence.org/mediaviolence/athome.html Handouts, a developmental booklet and other materials to help parents manage media for and with their children.

Things Kids Like To Do That Don’t Involve TV
http://www.limitv.org/alternat.htm

Young Children View TV Differently
http://www.ActAgainstViolence.org/materials/handouts/FamilyMV2.pdf

Media and Violence Pamphlet
http://www.readingrx.org/brochures/current.htm

Children Learn Through Play

The Importance of Play
http://zerotothree.org/tips/play-series.html

Play and the School-Age Child. University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/8048.htm

The Power of Play.
http://www.zerotothree.org/play/main.html

Rethinking Children’s Play. National Parent Teacher Association.
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,45-21913,00.html

Helping Children Learn Language

Choosing Books. Reach Out and Read National Center.
http://www.reachoutandread.org/resource_choose.html
. One page handout of the types of books that are appropriate for infants and toddlers and preschoolers.

Developmental Milestones of Early Literacy. Reach Out and Read National Center.
http://www.reachoutandread.org/downloads/RORmilestones_English.pdf
One page, colorful chart of motor, cognitive and parent behavior milestones that support future reading. Also available in Spanish and Chinese.

Help Your Child to Talk.
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/talktoyourbaby/Helpyourchildtotalk.pdf
Two page PDF brochure for non-commercial purposes. Ideal for parent handout.

Koralek, Derry. Conversations That Count.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/conversations_count.mspx

Oesterreich, Lesia. Understanding Children: Language Development. Iowa State University Extension Service.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529F.pdf

Raising Readers: The Tremendous Potential of Families.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/startearly/ch_1.html

Language Activity Guides Birth – Six READY*SET*READ Early Childhood Learning Kit, US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/RSRkit.html

Zero to Three. Learning to Talk.
http://www.zerotothree.org/tips/learningtotalk.html
Two pages with ways parents can support language development at each stage between birth and three years.

Vision, Hearing and Speech

Hearing and Speech Checklist. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
www.agbell.org/docs/SHchecklist.pdf

Roberts, Joanne E. and Susan A. Zeisel. Ear Infections and Language Development.
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/family/ear-lang/ear-lang.htm

A Reference Guide for Preschool Children’s Vision Development. Optometric Extension Service.
www.healthy.net/oep/Parent.htm

Children’s Vision. American Optometric Association.
http://www.aoa.org/x770.xml

Getting Ready for School Success

Becoming A Reader: Helping Your Child Become a Reader
http://www.ed.gov/print/parents/academic/help/reader/part4.html

Head Start Report: The Emotional Foundations of School Readiness

Zero to Three.
http://www.zerotothree.org/sch_read.html
Links to specific ways parents can support children’s growing confidence, curiosity, intentionality, self-control, relatedness, capacity to communicate and cooperativeness.

Hoerr, Thomas R. How Is Your Child Smart? Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine.
http://www.scholastic.com/earlylearner/age5/learning/pre_howsmart.htm

Maehr, Jane. Encouraging Young Children’s Writing. Eric Digest. http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9218/encouraging.htm

Nurturing Emotional Literacy: The Early Years Series
http://www.naeyc.org/ece/2002/08.asp

Early Years are Learning Years Series. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
http://www.naeyc.org/ece/eyly/

Seven Ways for Young Children to Be Smart. The Early Years are Learning Years:
https://www.naeyc.org/ece/1997/13.asp

Paulu, Nancy. Helping Your Child Get Ready for School. US Department of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement, June 1993.
http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1992/getready/getready.html Ready for School Checklist
http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1992/getready/checklis.html

Setting Limits and Guiding Behavior

DeBord, Karen. Appropriate Limits for Young Children: A Guide for Discipline. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/human/pubs/limits1.html
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/human/pubs/limits2.html

Graham, Judith. Discipline that Works: The Ages and Stages Approach. University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service.
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4140.htm

Pantley, Elizabeth. They Don’ Listen to Me! Parenting Web.
http://www.parentingweb.com/discipline/ep_dontlisten.htm

Winning Ways to Talk with Young Children. University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service.
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4077.htm

Oliver, Kathy Setting Limits and Standing Firm
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5317.html