This site is devoted to child care providers joining with parents to support children's well-being. It includes materials and links for childcare providers to build positive relationships with parents along with materials for providers and materials to be distributed to parents. Categories of materials are parent-provider relationships, supporting parents, child growth and development, guidance and discipline, children and learning, family-child relationships, health and safety, and making connections. Several pieces focus on talking to parents or providers about difficult topics..
Each of 21 expectable challenges faced by preschool children is described from the child's point of view, inviting the reader to hear the child's voice and understand the child's need. Taking the child's perspective can help parents respond helpfully to children's developmental challenges.
A first-of-its-kind study examining the long-term economic consequences of childhood psychological disorders finds the conditions diminish people's ability to work and earn as adults, costing $2.1 trillion over the lifetimes of all affected Americans.
Only about half of parents with annual incomes of less than $25,000 expect their child will attain a four-year-college degree, compared with more than eight in ten parents with incomes over $75,000.
by Robert M. Milardo, Ph.D., Professor of Family Relations, University of Maine
I did not intend to write a book about aunts and uncles or their nieces and nephews, at least not initially. I began with a simple interest in uncovering instances of men in caregiving roles, other than fathers. My own uncles were positive influences in my life, and I simply wondered if uncles were important in the lives of others.
by Murray A. Straus, Ph.D., Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire
The idea that ending spanking and other legal corporal punishment by parents can make a major contribution to preventing physical abuse of children seems preposterous to all but a few of the parent educators, child psychologists, pediatricians and other professionals I talk to. Paradoxically, it is rarely because they are in favor of spanking. Even more paradoxical is that most also think that spanking is an undesirable mode of parenting and many advise parents to use alternatives to correct misbehavior.
