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The official site of Focus on the Family offers practical helps for your marriage and parenting role. Avery in depth and extensive sight. Tips and articles on marriage, parenting, finances, health and much more. Many book recommendations and even movie reviews and recipes. Wonderful site for the Christian soul!
The well-known Pediatrician gives advice on many aspects of pregnancy and parenthood. Message boards also allow you to get ideas from other parents. You can search for your particular problem and even pose your question to the experts.
A great magazine for families, offers a great website! Offers so much and doesn’t just tease you like so many do. They offer boredom busters, great family vacation spots, party ideas and even a cake finder (they even have a sleepover cake), craft ideas for kids, discipline helps (I needed help keeping my children in bed after I put them there, and found some things to try), kid-friendly recipes, health and learning advisors, and a baby-name finder. Check out this site!!!
Parenting magazine’s site informs you about freebies and contests, helps you to discover your age-by-age fertility chances, provides a stay-at-home finance calculator and gives tips on how to make the transition from working mom to stay-at-home mom. Also offers advice from many experts, including Dr. Sears. Lots of message boards to talk with other parents like you!
A service of Girls and Boys town. Common sense answers to parenting questions. Ask the experts advice on your child’s behavior, school, health, love and loss. … Very in depth; tons of articles in every subject imaginable for every age!!! Free parenting E-Book.
The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval Program
This site offers The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval program. It is an independent testing procedure conducted to judge a variety of products introduced and marketed to the parent/child consumer market. There are also many helpful articles, and a college-cost-calculator.[/column]
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An amazing site for the whole family!!! Kids can enter their own site with so much to do and learn! Educational games and facts, what to do when your parents fight, or kids can ask questions of the experts (i.e. How does the nose know so many smells? Or What’s a burp? ). Teens also have their own site where they can ask the experts personal questions. They can find out about their changing bodies, drugs, staying safe, STD’s, studying tips, preventing acne, food and fitness. Parents aren’t left out and have a plethora of information on their child’s health and well-being.
Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Includes drug information, a medical dictionary or you could search a specific health topic.
Offers and ranks links on many subjects: health, nutrition, fertility, marriage, govt. organizations, adoption, family finance and much more!
Positive Parenting is an obscure site dedicated to providing resources and information to help make parenting more rewarding, effective and fun. Offers some very helpful articles.
Information, insight and support for parents of teens. Has helpful articles, but most importantly, you can talk with other parents that know what you’re going through, or can tell you what has worked for them.
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