Acadmics:
Help your child succeed in school
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/succeed/index.html
Homework Help
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/homework/index.html
CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide.
Great source of information about children's books, publishers, and other resources.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
The North Star website: http://www.fablevision.com/northstar
An inspiring, thought provoking site for all ages. The North Star web site is a great source of creativity, activities, and inspiration.
The Read In!
The Read In Foundation is dedicated to fostering literacy throughout the world. Check out the details on the The Read In! website, and learn about many other cool Read In! activities and goodies that encourage literacy throughout the school year!
http://www.readin.org
Grief and Loss
All Children Grieve - http://allkidsgrieve.org/
"A resource for teachers, parents, counselors and other caring adults." Strategies, book lists, and a wealth of other resource for bereavement issues
Dougy Center - http://www.dougy.org/
A resource brought from the National Center for Grieving Children and Families, "this site is an online resource for grieving children, teens, and the people who care about them."
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
This is the website for this national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues.
http://www.tlcinst.org/
Character Education and Social Skills
Can Do! http://www.ucando.org
An ability focused web site dedicated to helping all people develop a "can-do" attitude and approach to life... no matter what the obstacles.
Do Something - http://www.dosomething.org
Kindeness and Justice Challenge curriculum is found here, along with other social action opportunities
Do To Learn - http://www.dotolearn.com
A great resource for teaching social skills. Contains an interactive, animated, web-based game on reading facial expressions.
Meet Cool People - http://www.hud.gov/kids/people.html
A website from HUD about cool people, places and things with an emphasis on citizenship and volunteerism. Career awareness interactive activity with community helpers on site called “What's My Job?”
Peace and Kindness
Acts of Kindness Foundation - http://www.actsofkindness.org
Activities to help celebrate Kindness Week, now November 6-12, and World Kindness Day, Nov. 13
Positive Discipline - http://www.positivediscipline.com/
Positive Discipline Associates website with the mission to create peace in the world through peace in homes and classrooms. Great questions of the week and resource information.
Exceptionality
LD Online - http://www.LDonline.org
Interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children suggested by G. Hahn
ADDitude, "the Happy Healthy Lifestyle Magazine for People With ADD" - http://www.additudemag.com/
This is a wonderful, very positive site about ADD... includes an array of information regarding kids who have ADD, as well as adults who have ADD.
Centers for New Discoveries in Learning - http://www.howtolearn.com/
Learning strategies for all children with a focus on learning disabilities and how to work with them.
Dyslexia, The Gift - http://www.dyslexia.com/
Explore the positive talents that give rise to dyslexia, and share knowledge about the best ways for dyslexic people to learn.
Career Education
School to Work K-6 lesson plans - http://www.contractor.edu/lessonplans.html
Lesson plans, unit goals, songs and coloring sheets
Misc. Educational Resource Websites
KidsHealth - http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/index.html
Well written age appropriate information on many topics for children from self-esteem to grieving to divorce to stress
Help your child become a responsible citizen -
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/citizen/index.html
Stranger Safety - The Safe Side (Used with Kindergarten – 2nd Grade) - http://thesafeside.com/
Bullying
Article about bullying and new research on the topic
"The Buzz on Bullying"
http://www.schoolcounselor.org/content.asp?contentid=282
Information about bullying from the National Mental Health Information Center
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/15plus/aboutbullying.asp
Article about bullying from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry http://aacap.org/page.ww?name=Bullying§ion=Facts+for+Families
An interactive website for kids about bullying
http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp
Childhood Anger Resources – Anger Management
http://jziller.tripod.com/angermanagement/
Help for parents with angry elementary students
http://www.kinderstart.com/childdevelopment/behavior/aggressiveanger.html
Resources for Parents
Parents Magazine - www.parents.com
Parents Magazine offers an interesting and informative site that is hard to leave! It has a lot of advertising around the edges but also offers nice tidbits of information from parents in the outer edges, too! It has some topics including pregnancy, advice on children by age, family time, and community. I found an article about whether or not children are ready for kindergarten and another on ways to raise happy children.
Wrights Law: http://www.wrightslaw.com/
This website is quoted as being the "most comprehensive special education advocacy site of the internet." Pamela Darr Wright, LCSW (Liscenced Clinical Social Worker) put this site together. It has different topics relating to children who might have attentional problems or who might need special education services but also has an overview of child development.
Developmental Stages of Children - http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/piaget
One website clearly states and explains the developmental stages of childhood as researched by Jean Piaget. These stages are very interesting to learn about and consider in relation to where your child is functioning. Sometimes we don’t realize that there are some issues that very young children just cannot grasp.
Parents Helping Parents - http://www.php.com/
PHP provides education and skills training, information, guidance, and peer support for families with the unexpected diagnosis of and ongoing impact of childhood disabilities, including but not limited to intellectual, learning or physical disabilities and special health care needs.
FamilyEducation.com
The Learning Network’s "Parent Channel" offers another neat place to start on the web. This site has lots of information and links to newsletters about specific topics and activities for children. There is both age and grade level specific information for parents of young children.
A website that provides information about divorce and how it affects children who are in different stages of development is:
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/hesguide/humanrel/gh6600.htm
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