Online Resources for Parents

  • Babble
    An online magazine and community for urban parents.
  • Beech Acres Parenting Center
    "Beech Acres Parenting Center offers parents guidance and support with its ultimate goal of strengthening parents' ability to raise children who achieve their unique potential."
  • Before 5
    Provides a list of teachable moments to help guide your child's development.
  • Born Learning
    "Born Learning is a public engagement campaign that helps parents, grandparents, and caregivers explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning opportunites."
  • Brainy Child
    "If you want to learn how to raise a smarter child during this crucial period of development, then Brainy-Child is here to help you to gain the latest updates on child brain development, early child development, child development research, nutritional advice for infant brain development, and brain building toys/games reviews."
  • Child Safety on the Information Highway
    How to keep your kids safe while they are surfing the Internet.
  • Early Childhood Center
    For parents of children with special needs, this website provides information about early intervention and early childhood special education.
  • Early Childhood News
    "We endeavor to support parents, educators and the environment through everyday learning, with feaured articles on how to foster environmental awareness in the classroom and earth-friendly activities."
  • Family Education
    This site provides parents with practical guidance, grade- specific information about their children's school experience, strategies to get involved with their children's learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities.
  • Family TLC
    This site features parenting tips, articles on child development, and new age appropriate child activities each month.
  • FBI: A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety
    Provides parents with information about keeping their children safe on the Internet.
  • First Steps
    "Indiana's First Steps System is a family-centered, locally-based, coordinated system that provides early intervention services to infants and young children with disabilities or who are developmentally vulnerable."
  • Leading to Reading: Finger Plays
    Online videos show you how to do various finger plays with your infant and toddler.
  • Learn More Indiana - Parents
    While the main focus is to assist parents and families in planning for college, the site offers a wide variety of information ranging from career planning, choosing a college, paying for college, academic standards, pre-k and grade by grade checklists, learning styles, study skills, time management, parent checklists, and much more.
  • Live Tutor
    Tutor.com is available each evening from 3pm-11pm. It offers live homework help for students in grades 4 - 12 and college intro in the subjects of math, science, social studies, and English.
  • National Child Care Information Center
    "The National Childcare Information Office (NCCIC), a service of the Child Care Bureau, Office of Family Assistance, is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy- makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information."
  • Nibbles...Ideas for Families
    Developed by the University of Illinois Extension, this site provides parents with practical tips and activities relating to nutrition, education, health and other common parenting issues.
  • Parent Education
    Contains articles which focus on "parent-child communication, nurturing relationships, setting limits, and respectful discipline practices."
  • Parenting Page
    Links organized under the following topics: adoption, fatherhood, special needs, cybersmarts, pregnancy and infants, discipline & behavior, stay-at-home parents, health & safety, raising leaders, child care, child development, home schooling, education and general parenting.
  • Parents as Teachers
    "Parents as Teachers (PAT) is a parent education and family support program serving families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten, usually age 5."
  • PBS Parents
    "Here you'll find information about your child's development from birth through the early school years. And you'll find lots of fun educational activities for your children to help get them ready for school."
  • PBS Parents Guide to Reading and Language
    "Learn how children become readers and writers and how you can help them develop by talking, reading, and writing together every day."
  • Picture Books for Your Child
    "As you explore our pages, you'll find information about all kinds of children's picture books, how to select the perfect picture book for your child or grandchild, and a wealth of suggestions."
  • Raising Digital Kids
    A great site explaining digital technologies as it relates to children.
  • Reading is Fundamental: Leading to Reading
    Offers parents information about literacy, suggested parent child activities, and much more.
  • Reading Rockets
    "Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers research-based and best-practice information on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. It is an educational service of public television station WETA in Washington, D.C."
  • Ready at Five
    Various early learning tools to help your children achieve school readiness.
  • Ready*Set*Read for Families
    Provides simple activities to enjoy with children birth through five years old as well as insight into how they learn and develop.
  • Safety Belt Safe U.S.A.
    This site is a resource for parents seeking guidance regarding car seats and booster seats and includes car seat checkup information.
  • Savvy Source for Parents
    "Where parents and preschool teachers share their savviest ideas on how best to help your child learn and grow."
  • Scholastic Parents
    General parenting advice.
  • Success by 6
    "Useful information for adults who care, work and make decisions for young children and their families."
  • Tufts University Child and Family WebGuide
    "The WebGuide is a directory that evaluates, describes and provides links to hundreds of sites containing child development research and practical advice. Topics are selected on the basis of parent recommendations; they cover all ages, from early child development through adolescence..."
  • Twenty by Jenny
    This site offers parents core lists of suggested titles for children by age. Additionally, each month the author features one additional title to add to the core lists providing a never ending supply of ideas for your child's next great read.
  • Working Moms Refuge
    "This site is produced by women living the same life as you  we juggle babies and dinners and work and sanity."
  • Your Child: Development & Behavior Resources
    This site features information on child development and behavior, links to parent support groups, and other helpful resources. The information and links provided are reviewed by University of Michigan experts in child behavioral health.
  • Zero to Three Child Behavior and Development
    "Here you'll find science-based information and tools designed to help parents and caregivers nurture their young children's development."