Helpful Websites

Brain Development in Children

Here is a great site that explains brain development in children. It describes the importance if interaction, talking with children and the physical development of the brain. Very interesting! http://developingchild.harvard.edu/

Montana Alliance for Families Touched By Incarceration

This is a great resource for families who may have a parent or parents incarcerate ( in jail or prison). This is helpful to answer the questions that children may ask about their parent (s). To go to the main site click here.

Helping your child deal with Bullying!

Bullying is a subject that causes parents to cringe in agony. There are any faces of bullying. Here is a link to several such topics. Once onthe page you can choose the article that you would like to read. How to talk with Educators at your child’s school about bullying Tips for parents: What to do [...]

Baby Information by Text

Get free text messages to your phone, with information through out your pregnancy and your baby’s first year. This a service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. To sign up and for more information to to http://www.text4baby.org/

Love and Logic

Love and Logic is a strategy that we teach in a 6 week series or in a 1 day class. To find the upcoming class schedule to the events section. You will learn how to raise responsible children. By giving them lots of opportunities to making choices, learning phrases to cue your child of their behavior [...]

Baby Sign Language Dictionary

Here is a link to a great website that has a dictionary of signs that you can find specific signs to teach yourself and baby to sign. Such as please, thank-you, milk, bed, diaper change, etc. http://www.babysignlanguagedictionary-mysmarthands.com

5 Online Resources for Childhood Development

Center for Early Education and Development at the University of Minnesota Click the link below to see the Questions About Kids website that tackles common issues of concern to parents and professionals. Each issue addresses one question about young children. Questions About Kids are made for distribution at places where caregivers gather. Visit the Center [...]

101 things to Help Your Budget

As parents we are often looking for great tricks to reduce our spending. In a recent parent forum this was the topic. Yet finding useful ideas that we thought were useful proved to be difficult. We did find an article from Parenting Magazine that had some good ideas. To read it click here.