Parents-To-Be
- Baby-Safe Safely surrender your newborn baby anonymously
- Mother to Baby Fact sheets on in-utero exposures for parents-to-be
- March of Dimes Non-profit seeks to educate for healthy pregnancies
- Glowing Glow is a free fertility app
Health
- Donate Life California Organ and tissue donor registry
- Bioridge Pharma: Free epi-pens for schools
- CDC Cough and Cold Medicines: Information for Parents Dangers of over-the-counter remedies
- CDC Gather and Share your Family Health History For baby’s health
- CDC Protect your Baby with Immunization Scientific reasons in favor of shots
- Let’s Move Importance of physical activity for children
- WebMD Parenting Center My first stop when I have a medical question
Welfare
- Child Care Aware Information about how to choose a care provider, with resources
- Fire Safety For Kids Flash games, coloring book etc teaching about fire safety
- Incarcerated Parents Toolkit - SesameStreet.Org Support and comfort your child through this challenge
- Tools for Families | CASEL Social and emotional learning
- NICWA National Indian Child Welfare Association
- Hans Rosling: Religions and babies Video about world population
- How Parental Substance Use Disorders Affect Children - ChildWelfare.Gov Comprehensive chapter of manual
- Pound Pup Legacy Homeschool Abuses
- Homeschool Invisible Children The dark side of home schooling
- The Bystander Effect Video about community responsibility
- Child Stats America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
- Parenting
- National Education Association
- SafetyNet from American Association of Physicians, how to keep your child safe online
- Health and Human Services: Families Federal Department with many programs
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Federal Communication Commission: Child Internet Protection Act
- BBB Critical Viewing Guide be smart about what your child watches
Education
- Character Counts Teach your child to be the person you want them to be
- 10 Best Educational Websites for Kids (that are free!) - Parenting.com List for parents
- 10 Steps to Teaching Your Child to Read - I Can Teach My Child! Article for parents
- Reach Out and Read Nonprofit uses doctors to promote reading
- GreatSchools - Public and Private School Ratings, Reviews and Parent Community
- flippedmath.com Algebra and Geometry online (for the school-age child)
- Critical Thinking – Free Critical Thinking and Reasoning Activities for Kids – JumpStart Teaching reason to children with games, worksheets etc
- NASA GIRLS and NASA BOYS and NASA for Students K-4 Pairs schoolchildren with science mentors
- Preschool science activities Fun things to try at home
- Between Parent and Child Videos of noted expert Haim Ginott
- TACSEI Everything you ever needed to know about social and emotional development
Inclusion
- PBS: A Class Divided Documentary about prejudice
- PFLAG
- Teaching Tolerance
- Understanding Prejudice
Articles
- @Health: Parenting Styles What type of parent are you?
- Biology and social environments jointly influence gender development from American Psychological Association
- Importance of On-Time Deliveries - NYTimes.com (news) Best results when babies born at 39-40 weeks
- Breakthroughs in Prenatal Screening - NYTimes.com (feature) Science behind newborn screening test
- The Tests That Babies Need - NYTimes.com (feature) Impact of nwborn screening tests
- Long-Term Benefits of Music Lessons - NYTimes.com (news) Children’s improvement scientifically observed
- Warnings on Children’s Drugs Found to Help Curb Misuse - NYTimes.com (news) Less children now harmed by over-the-counter medicines
- Barriers to autism screening adversely impact Latinos | Al Jazeera America Social obstacles to care
- That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introverted boy - Salon.com Excerpt from book
- Giving Mobility When Legs Can’t - NYTimes.com
- Lifelines for Poor Children - NYTimes.com (Opinion) In favor of government support for society’s most vulnerable
- America's children are the silent victims of the Great Recession | PBS NewsHour Poverty’s effect on children
- Lake teacher uses exercise balls to control students' wiggles - Orlando Sentinel Innovative solutions for energetic students
- City principal says pre-K suspensions are a matter of safety - baltimoresun.com Some preschoolers are being suspended for ‘misbehavior’
- Reuters Investigates - The Child Exchange Problematic off-the-books adoptions
- Slate.com The tragic death of an Ethiopian adoptee, and how it could happen again Downsides of adoption to unprepared parents
- God Called Them to Adopt. And Adopt. And Adopt. - NYTimes.com Trend of adopting large families
Butte County / North State / California
- Help Central Community resource directory for Butte Co
- Butte County Public Health Low/No-cost clinics run by the county
- North Valley Indian Health Low/No-cost health services for Native Americans
- First 5 California Parenting tips: health, learning and activities
- Butte County Library: Just For Kids Storytime schedule, internet safety, and more
- Community Seeds Sustainable lifestyle magazine
- 101 Things to Do in Butte Co Be a tourist in your own backyard
- Growing Up Chico Magazine that lists lots of activities
- Chico Parks and Recreation Department Many activities both summer and after school
- Chico Swim Lessons through parks dept
- YMCA Oroville Aquatics Oroville Swim Lessons
- Gateway Science Museum on CSUC campus, a science museum for children
- University Farm CSUC's farm offers tours, fruit picking, etc
- Patrick Ranch Museum Historical museum of farm life; in Chico
- Freecycle Chico Craigslist Free doesn't have it? All sorts of free stuff in this group.
- Downtown Chico Business Association Puts on activities like Treat Street, Thursday Markets, etc
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