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Clicking with Children: Computers and Young Children
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/clicking/main.html
Many parents have questions about their children and computers. What do experts recommend? When should children begin to use computers? What should parents look for when buying computer games and software for young children? How can parents and children grow together with the use of technology? Are there any educational benefits for young children in using computers? This article will provide you with important information, guidelines, resources, and tips to consider as you weigh the benefits and challenges of computer use for your young child.
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Discipline that Works
http://www.nea.org/parents/tools/disc.html
The hope of every parent is to have children who are responsible, concerned members of society. Discipline is, of course, part of this effort. Research has repeatedly shown that, despite the importance of the peer group, parents usually have much more influence than they realize. Disciplining children takes a great deal of effort, but the main idea is that children and parents can change.
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Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
Factmonster.com combines essential reference materials, facts, and trivial quizzes for kids on all subjects. It offers a popular sports game, "Power Football," as well as information about the world of entertainment, geography, history, biographies, and health. It provides homework help, and gives parents, educators, and kids access to almanacs, an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and an atlas.
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Family Education
http://www.familyeducation.com/home/
Family Education provides parents with educational printables, parenting ideas, expert family advice, arts & crafts projects, and many more activities for children of all ages (babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and K-12 children). You can browse information by both grade level and school subject, find homework help by grade, and learn skill-building tips to help your children excel.
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Family Entertainment Center: FE Kids
http://www.fekids.com/kln/index.html
FEKids.com makes learning fun and interactive for children of all ages, Pre-K - 12. FEKids.com combines interactive, educational games; special projects; instant homework help; and a reference area. FEKids helps students succeed in school, build skills, and have fun -- all in one online location!
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Family-Friendly Tip Sheets
http://www.floridapartnership.usf.edu/resources.html
The Florida Partnership for Family Involvement in Education provides tip sheets and handouts on engaging families in improving achievement.
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FunBrain
http://www.funbrain.com/
FunBrain.com is the location for interactive, educational games for children of all ages. FunBrain also offers teacher/parent guides to FunBrain games, and free downloads. Search for a game by grade level (Pre-K - 12), title, and subject (math, science, reading). FunBrain's educational resources utilize games and tools to teach everything from how to build Web pages in HTML to how to spell with Spellaroo.
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Headstart - Drake University
http://www.drakeheadstart.org
The Drake University Head Start Program offers a variety of program options to address each family's individual strengths and needs. Program options include preschool classrooms for three and four year olds, full-day and full-year preschool classrooms with childcare, home-based preschool program for three and four year olds, toddler center-based program for two year olds, and home visiting program for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers.
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Healthy Eating Habits
http://www.pbs.org/parents/teachersourcetips/healthyeating.html
Research tells us that healthy eating habits in children are important for both physical and COGNITIVE development. You can encourage healthy eating habits in your child in many ways. You can use the tips on this web site to get you started. This site is available both in English and Spanish.
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Helping Your Child Becomes a Responsible Citizen
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/citizen/index.html
Helping Your Child Becomes a Responsible Citizen: Just as children must be taught to read and write, solve math problems, and understand science concepts and events in history, so must they be guided in developing the qualities of character that are valued by their families and by the communities in which they live. This booklet provides information about the values and skills that make up character and good citizenship and what we can do to help our child develop strong character. It suggests activities and we and our school-aged children can do to put those values to work in our daily lives and tips for working with teachers and schools to ensure that we act together to promote the basic values that we want our child to learn and use. This booklet is available in English and Spanish.
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Helping Your Child Series
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html
The Helping Your Child publication series aims to provide parents with the tools and information necessary to help their children succeed in school and life. These booklets feature practical lessons and activities to help their school-aged and preschool children master reading, understand the value of homework and develop the skills and values necessary to achieve and grow. The series address history, science, math, reading, homework, preschool, academic success, early adolescence, and responsible citizen.
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Helping Your Child Succeed
http://www.aft.org/parents/downloads/HYCS1.pdf
This articles provides specific examples on what parents can do at home to help their children reach high standards.
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Helping Your Child Succeed in School
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/succeed/index.html
Every child has the power to succeed in school and in life and every parent, family member and caregiver can help. This booklet provides parents and families with information, tools and activities they can use in the home to help their child develop the skills critical to academic success. This booklet is available in English and Spanish.
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InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com/
Infoplease.com provides an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and an almanac with up-to-date country and state profiles, statistics, quizzes, and biographies of presidents, sports figures, scientists, actors, and others. You can even get educational help from the Infoplease.com Homework Center. Infoplease puts the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.
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Learning Two Languages: Questions Parents Ask
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/multifamilies/main.html
Raising multilingual children offers opportunities as well as unique challenges. This update will answer many questions, while providing tips for what parents can do to support their children's language and literacy development at home. This update is also available in Spanish.
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MegaSkills® Activities
http://www.megaskillshsi.org/freeActivities.html
The MegaSkills Education OnLine Website has been created to provide support for families and educators across the nation and the world. Permission is granted to viewers of this site to print and reproduce pages from this site (provided attribution for the source of the materials is included) for use with nonprofits, schools, and organizations working to improve education at home and at school. Changes/alterations to the MegaSkills materials are not to be made without advanced, written permission from the MegaSkills Education Center.
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Motivation for Learning: Parents Can Help
http://www.nea.org/parents/tools/motivate.html
As parents, we want our children to learn. We know the benefits of being able to read well, to write clearly, to solve problems and to communicate effectively. This site provides a checklist of parental behaviors that can facilitate the motivation of our children to learn.
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Parent Toolkit: All Kinds of Minds
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/ptk/index.aspx
Millions of children struggle in school daily because of differences in learning. The causes are often unknown, specific problems can be difficult to pinpoint, and the long-term effects hard to predict. Struggling children are often misunderstood by the adult world. This toolkit provides parents with tips to help their students in reading, math, writing, attention
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Parents Guide to Children & Media
http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/about.html
The PBS Parents Guide to Children & Media is a resource for answering parents' questions about kids, media and the creative possibilities that exist between them. It's a place that invites you to bring both your curiosity and concern about what young people are seeing and hearing on TV, in movies, video games and on the Internet.
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Real Families, Real Fun
http://www.realfamiliesrealfun.com
The modern information source for kids and parents to help make family time quality time. Features activity tips, winning travel destinations, easy recipes, and reviews of family entertainment.
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