Zero To Three  This website has a wide variety of information about infants and toddlers for parents and professionals alike. 

Parent Soup  This commercial web site is full of information, advice and ideas for parents, children and teachers.   It's packed full of information, so plan on spending time exploring to get the full use of it.  Topics include:  getting children to sleep, divorce, health issues, party ideas, and much more!

I Am Your Child  This beautiful site could be a little easier to use, but it’s full of good information for care givers, and parents of young children.  It is also a good source for videos and books related to parenting.  Topics include:  an interview with Rob Reiner, parent information, brain development research, plus a place to ask for ‘expert’ advice.

Search Engine for Parents, Caregivers and Educators  This site is the Largest Indexed Directory and Search Engine on the Web for Parents and Caregivers. Go there to find excellent information for parents and teachers. This site has a pre-school section. You’ll find lots of games and free lesson plans.

Principles of Parenting  This site is full of articles designed to teach parenting.  The articles are clear and easy to understand.  A great resource!  The publications in this series are part of a total parenting program emphasizing understanding, guiding, and encouraging children. The publications are four to eight pages long and use simple statements of principles along with stories and illustrations to communicate the principles. Teaching guides are being developed to accompany each unit.

Schwab Learning  This site is full of articles and information to help parents and teachers who work with children with learning differences.   If you’re really interested in this topic, they will send you a weekly newsletter with article summaries which you can read (if you have the time).

100 Best Picture Books Every Child Should Know  This is a simple list of books and authors – nice to take with you next time you go the library or the bookstore.  

The Children’s Literature Web Guide  Full of links, reviews and other goodies for people interested in children’s books.  Well organized – not commercial.  Also has a list of awards for children’s books.

ERIC Clearinghouse for Reading, English and Communication  An excellent on-line magazine called Parents and Children Together.   The magazine features original stories and articles for children, suitable for reading aloud for pre-school to middle-school aged children. A special section for parents features articles on issues related to children's reading and writing and book reviews of recent children's literature. They also have a list of other web sites for you to explore.  

Barefoot Books  Children's books from around the world.

No Child Left Behind - Parent's Page  This site gives parents information about pre- reading activities, and what a good early reading program should look like.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators and Service Providers  This page, which is part of the Discovery web site, is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.   It’s created by a REAL teacher and is CHOCK full of links to other web sites, teaching ideas and tools and many other goodies.  This page links, in turn, to other pages, such as a parents page.  This site is geared for elementary-age children, starting with grade K.

National Institute for Literacy  The web page is a fantastic resource for anyone connected with the literacy field.

National Association for the Education of Young Children  This website has information for early childhood educators on a variety of issues:  policy, accreditation, and professional development.  It has a section for parents on locating accredited child care, and links to books, brochures, etc. 

Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children  This site has information for providers on events, public policy issues, and marketplace resources.

Connect For Kids  This is an outstanding site and covers an amazing amount of research, advocacy tips, articles and more.  Every week you'll find new things on the Connect for Kids home page. Here’s just one week’s worth of articles: "How Do We Heal a "Broken Child?", "Helping Families Leave Poverty, Not Just Welfare, Behind", "Ideas for Summer Reading: Connect for Kids Book Reviews", "All Kids Grieve."   You can sign up to receive and excellent weekly newsletter from them. 

Kids Count  Census data, online databases, publications, special reports, and more.  Excellent web site, full of detailed information, especially if you need statistics. 

Children Now   Children Now works to improve the quality of news and entertainment media both for children and about children's issues.  This is another good source for articles and information.  It has an excellent “Links Directory” that gives information about hundreds of web pages relating to children’s well-being.

Child Care Law Center    Policy and Legal Information on child care issues.

Starting Early, Starting Smart  This is a link that tells about a research project on how to help kids 0-7 avoid future substance abuse.