Parenting Tips
- A Checklist for Deciding When to Leave Your Child Home Alone
- Nutrition
- Home Safety Checklist
- Healthy Care
- Motor Skills
- Senses
- Understanding Your Child's Challenging Behaviors
- Your Child's Amazing Brain
- Creative Experiences
- Pretend Play
- Learning to Read
- Learning to Write
- School Readiness
- Games and Physical Exercise
- Helping Your Child Learn Honesty
- Your Child's Fears and Nightmares
- NACCRRA: Information about child development, opportunities for involvement in your community, activities that promote learning and bonding, and more.
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Community Resources for Families
- Children’s Service Society: Adoption Related Services, parenting services, support for families raising their kin’s children, child care provider support, free referrals to child care, etc.
- Bureau of Child Care Licensing: Provides complaint histories and compliance records of child care providers.
- Child Protective Services: To report suspected child abuse.
- The Information and Referral Center: Connects the community to human service agencies, governmental offices, and professional organizations.
- Family Support Center: Immediate, short-term (up to 72 hours) care for children less than 12 years old in a crisis situation.
- Division of Services for People with Disabilities: List of available resources for people with disabilities.
- Head Start: Pre-school program for low income and at-risk families.
- WIC (Women, Infants, and Children): Provides vouchers for nutritious food for nursing women, infants, and children up to five years old.
- Child Care Aware: Provides contact information for CCR&R agencies nationwide, parenting information, and more.
- Family Education Plan: A Family Education Plan is a framework to achieve successful life-long learning, the outcome of which will strengthen and enrich the overall well-being of the family.
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CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program)
Provides low cost health insurance for children of income qualified families -
Department of Workforce Services
Provides long-term help to pay for child care for income qualified families - Nanny and Babysitting Services
- Babysitting Resources
Literacy
- CCR&R ~ Metro’s Resource Lending Library: Theme boxes, literacy bags, story stretchers, and more to enhance your child’s educational and fun playtime available to check out for a minimal yearly membership cost.
- KBYU: Learn how to extend a child’s learning and how television can lead to good books.
- Ready! Set! School!: This website is a tool for parents to help their children develop skills and get ready for Kindergarten.
- Public Libraries: Take advantage of this free way to introduce your child to the fun of reading! Reading is a great way to help your child develop imagination, increase attention span, and gain knowledge. This can also be a great bonding time for you and your child.
Advocacy
- Children’s Defense Fund Action Council: The council’s mission is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
- Voices for Utah Children: A child advocacy organization that speaks out on behalf of the children of Utah. They promote sound, far reaching program and policy solutions that focus on early care and education, health care, child welfare, and more. Find out how you can help.
Child Development Topics
- Biting
- Blocks: Great Toys for All Ages!
- Caring for Kids - AND Your Kids Too!
- Celebrating Our Differences
- Choosing Toys Children Really Like
- Discipline Tips for Infants and Toddlers
- Discovering Through Science
- Fabulous Five-Year Olds
- Fun With Four-Year Olds
- Helping Children Through Sad Times
- I'm So Mad! (Helping Children Deal with Anger)
- Infant Environment: Let's Take a Closer Look
- Outdoor Play on Winter Days
- Picky Eaters
- Problem with Time-Out
- Signs of Child Abuse
- Stop Behavior Problems Before They Happen
- Stress Busters
- Talking with Children About the News
- Television in Child Care: What Do We Need to Know?
- Temper Tantrums
- Terrific Two-Year Olds
- Tips for Clean-Up
- Toilet Learning
- Working with a Bully
- Working with Three-Year Olds
- Working with Siblings: Will They Ever Get Along?
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