PARENTING AND FAMILY RESOURCES
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- GENERAL PARENTING RESOURCES
- ADOPTION
- BREASTFEEDING AND ATTACHMENT PARENTING
- INFANTS AND TODDLERS
- JUST FOR DADS
- JUST FOR MOMS
- PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
- TEENS
GENERAL PARENTING RESOURCES
- Child And Family WebGuide
- This site from Tufts University offers a collection of recommended sites
on education, childcare, parenting, health and child development.
- Family.com
- Huge parenting site from Disney with crafts, recipes, advice and more.
- FamilyEducation
- One of the first parenting sites online, this site continues to offer
quality information for parents on school, life, and entertainment. It
also has special sections for children of specific ages.
- Frugal Living @ About.com
- Links and related articles about managing a household using the minimum
amount of money. Subjects include appliances, babies, budgeting,
clothing, computers, Do It Yourself, education, food, holidays, leisure, and
household.
- Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
- Information on parenting and teaching gifted children, covering
characteristics, education programs, highly gifted, home schooling,
traditional schooling, special needs, resources, teachers, and topics.
- Idea Box
- Early childhood education and activity resources including craft recipes,
recipes, craft ideas, games, and songs.
- iParenting
- An online resource divided into areas for different ages of children,
complete with news, recalls, resources and areas to interact with other
mothers.
- KidsHealth
- "KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing
doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through
adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health
Media, KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free
health information they can use."
- MEDLINEplus: Toilet Training and Bedwetting
- The National Library of Medicine presents this site with general
information and resources.
- ParentCenter
- A portal for parenting with information for specific ages, school
readiness, health, learning, and activities.
- Parent Soup
- Large site for parents of infants to teens filled with tips, chats, discussions, and
information.
- Parenthood.com
- This site offers sections on conception, pregnancy, and parenthood with
lots of information in each.
- ParenthoodWeb
- Information on parenting, pregnancy, family, childcare, breastfeeding,
sleep and more.
- Parenting of K-6 Children @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering arts and crafts, creativity, computing, games, holidays,
clothes, parties, toys, ADD/ADHD, behavior problems, child development,
disabilities, discipline, emotional and physical health, self-esteem,
learning problems, school subjects and gifted children.
- Parenting of Multiples @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering breastfeeding, conjoined twins, equipment, feeding,
monoamniotic twins, organizations, parenting, pregnancy, prematurity,
sleeping, twinning rates, diseases and studies.
- Parenting Special Needs Children @
About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering specific disorders, ADA, child advocacy, development,
education, financial needs, news, and parenting.
- Parents
- Online version of Parents Magazine.
- ParentsPlace
- Articles, catalogs, chatting and more.
- Raising Hell
- No parenting advice here, just stories about the craziness of raising
kids.
- Screen It!
- Reviews of movies, videos and music for parents.
- Single Parents @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering absent parents, adoption, budgeting, child development,
dating, daycare, death and loss, divorce, easy cooking, facts, family fun,
health, gay parents, legal issues, organizations, pregnancy, teen parents
and time management.
- Stay-at-Home Parents @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering arts, crafts, health, scrapbooks, software, home schooling,
attachment parenting, support groups, bulletin boards, email lists, home
business, frugal living, family finances, cooking, home repair, household
tips, and self esteem.
ADOPTION
- Adoption @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering fraud, adult adoptees, advocacy, reform, birth parents,
child issues, expectant parents, international adoption, legal resources,
open adoption, open records, post-adoption, reunions, single parents,
transracial adoptions, and waiting children.
- Adoption
- Bringing together birth mothers, adoptive families, professionals and people searching for
birth relatives.
- International Adoption
News
- Articles, news and information on international adoption.
- Internet Adoption Photolisting
- This site from Precious in HIS Sight lists children available for international
adoption. Searchable.
- National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
Homepage
- Comprehensive information on adoption, including infant, international and special needs
adoptions from the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and
Families, Administration for Children and Families and the Department of
Health and Human Services.
- Wisconsin Adoption Information Center
- This site offers information on the adoption process, adoption law, types
of adoption and information for birthparents.
BREASTFEEDING AND ATTACHMENT PARENTING
- Breastfeeding Pharmacology
- Dr. Hale details what drugs are safe for use while breastfeeding. To
find information on a specific drug select Medications and Breastfeeding
Forums.
- La Leche League International
- Nonprofit organization that offers information and support for women who wish to
breastfeed.
- ProMoM
- Promotion of Mother's Milk, Inc. provides this site with information for nursing mothers
as well as companies wanting to support breastfeeding employees.
INFANTS AND TODDLERS
- BabyCenter
- Site for expectant and existing parents with chat areas, news specifically for parents,
resources and more.
- BabyZone
- This site offers information on preconception, pregnancy, and parenting
that can be customized for your own unique situations with personalized
calendars, baby books and journals all stored online.
- MEDLINEplus: Premature Babies
- The National Library of Medicine presents this site with general
information and resources.
- Parenting Babies and Toddlers @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering baby care, activities, bedtime issues, breastfeeding, child
development, health issues, child nutrition, childhood ailments,
immunizations, coloring pages, discipline, difficult behavior, early
learning, postpartum issues, toileting, recipes, preschool and beyond,
safety, siblings, and special needs.
- Zero to Three
- Infant and toddler health and development for both parents and
professionals.
JUST FOR DADS
- Fatherhood @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering activities, adolescents, adoption, adult children,
daughters, death and grief, discipline, distant dads, divorce, fathers'
rights, online forums, home schooling, grandfathers, humor, infants,
non-custodial dads, organizations, pregnancy, preschoolers, religion, and
schools.
- Fathering
- Magazine that addresses fathering issues.
- National Center for Fathering
- Dedicated to strengthening families by supporting fathers.
JUST FOR MOMS
- BlueSuitMom
- Tips, tools, information and support for executive working mothers with
sections on family, career, money, health, food, travel, and news.
- Home Based Working Moms
- Site for women who want to work out of their own homes with information on avoiding
scams, legitimate job opportunities, support, and more.
- ClubMom
- Online community for all mothers, filled with information on education,
food, home life, mind, body and spirit, working mothers, money, mothering,
personal style, pregnancy, shopping and travel.
PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
- American College of Nurse-Midwives
- Information for those considering using a midwife for a birth, considering becoming a
midwife and midwives.
- Baby Names!
- Collection of over 3000 names and growing.
- BabyNamesWorld
- With more than 11,000 baby names, this site offers lists of top names, the
ability to browse by alphabet, forums to chat about names, and both quick and
advanced searches, allowing you to limit by sex, length of name, specific
letters, meaning, origin and rating.
- Birth Stories
- A collection of true birth stories from the women who gave birth, plus updates on the
children.
- ePregnancy
- Pregnancy news, information and articles plus online space for journals,
baby name information, Q&A, day-by-day pregnancy information and
information on trying to conceive.
- Lamaze International
- Information on this natural birthing technique.
- MEDLINEplus: Labor and Delivery
- This site from the National Library of Medicine offers information,
research and organizational links.
- MEDLINEplus: Pregnancy
- MEDLINEplus: Twins, Triplets, Multiple Births
- Momdays
- Daily pregnancy calendar.
- Online Birth Center
- Information on midwifery, pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.
- Pregnancy/Birth @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering pregnancy calendar, photos, getting pregnant, signs and
symptoms, prenatal tests, labor, recovery, breastfeeding, pregnancy loss,
baby showers, names, stretch marks, birth announcement, birth stories, birth
plans, doulas, due dates, epidurals, episiotomy, and fitness.
- Pregnancy Today
- Site for pregnant women to communicate with one another about all sorts of issues.
TEENS
- Connect with Kids
- Site to help parents connect with older children and teens.
- Parenting of Adolescents @ About.com
- Site which offers chat areas, information, newsletters, and Internet
sites, covering acne, ADD, ADHD, menstruation, nutrition, STDs, college,
financial aid, homework help, school violence, chores, divorce, family time,
preteens, drug use, sex, teen pregnancy and running away.
Updated November 27, 2004.
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