Parenting and Family Information

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Parenting and Family

ABC's of Parenting
Parenting and pregnancy index with reviews of thousands of sites, articles on child, infant, health and women's issues. Great shopping and gift ideas and links.

Adoptive Families Magazine
Adoptive Families, the award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.

Ask Dr. Gayle
Dr. Gayle Peterson answers question from parents and spouses about marriage, family and parenting topics. You can also hear Dr. Gayle live on iVillage radio every Friday at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time, 10:00am Pacific Time.

Baby Center
Baby Center is a comprehensive resource for pregnancy and baby information. The website contains current articles, an "Ask the Expert" section, weekly developmental updates, a baby name finder, and an online community to connect with other parents.

Bonding with Baby
The website of Developing Hearts Systems, the non-profit educational publishers of Bonding with Baby® Development Books. Creates and distributes tools and techniques that bring parents and children together and foster a love of learning. Pioneered a new parenting technique for the first year called "Book Sharing With Baby" and publish children’s books that are designed to nurture a strong, loving relationship between parent and child.

Cord Partners, Inc.
Cord Partners stores your baby's cord blood in its internationally known, AABB accredited cord blood banking facility, in operation since 1954. There exists only one chance in a lifetime to collect and preserve your baby's umbilical cord blood (also called cord or placental blood). This irreplaceable source of stem cells will help preserve the cleanest, most natural form of cellular health for the rest of your child's life. If not collected at birth and preserved, this unique opportunity will be lost.

Dr. Toy
Dr. Toy provides children, parents, teachers, grandparents and other adults with important year-round information about the Dr. Toy award winning products. These include toys, dolls, games, puzzles, books, software, CD-ROMs, audio and video discs and tapes, creative materials, construction toys, and much more.

Executive Parent
Executive Parent.com focuses on providing busy parents with unique tools, parent-proven products, and ideas to help them in today's extra busy world. Their flagship product, My Child's Parent(tm) book summaries, allows parents to learn the key ideas of leading parenting books in a fraction of the time it would take to read the books.

Parenthood.com
A parenting, pregnancy and family site that offers a wealth of features including expert articles, debate segments, surveys, polls, chats and discussion boards. Also includes the ABC's of Parenting which is devoted to providing web surfers with reviews and ratings of the absolute best websites of interest to families and parents-to-be.

Parent's Place
Parent's Place provides valuable information on all stages of parenting. The website offers an extensive archive of feature articles, a panel of experts, and message boards and chat rooms to connect with other parents

Robyns Nest
The Parenting NetworkT is dedicated to helping you raise your precious gift, your child

The National Parenting Center (TNPC)
The National Parenting Center offers articles, a monthly newsletter, chat rooms and a shopping mall featuring a variety of products created by companies which have been awarded the National Parenting Seal of Approval.

Organizations

American Academy of Pediatrics
Child health and safety information and scientific research from the nation's leading experts.

Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Consumer Product Safety Commission works to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths from consumer products.

I Am Your Child Foundation
I Am Your Child is a national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early child development a top priority for our nation. The website provides research, parenting information, advice from the top experts in the field of child development such as T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., and many resources.

Zero To Three
Zero to Three is the nations leading resource on the first three years of life. They are a national non-profit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers.

Just For Mom

Club Mom
An informative and engaging website featuring personalized tools that help moms save time, get organized, and communicate with each other as well as the ability to make a difference on the issues that matter to them most.

Mothering Magazine
The natural family living website.

Myria
A place where women can take a break and focus on one person: YOU! Support, information and resources for mothers, from pregnancy through all stages of parenting.

Just For Mom
This web site has been designed by moms, for moms, and provides a resource for women to find business opportunities, services, unique gift ideas, as well as support.

Just For Dad

National Center for Fathering
The National Center for Fathering is a non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to champion the role of responsible fatherhood by inspiring and equipping men to be more engaged in the lives of their children.

Fathers' Forum Online
Fathers' Forum Online is a valuable resource for expectant and new fathers.

Massage

Infant Massage Information Service
The goal of the Infant Massage Information Service (IMIS) is to ensure that parents and caregivers are objectively informed on safe and effective massage techniques by experienced instructors specifically trained in infant massage.

Loving Touch Foundation
The International Loving Touch Foundation fosters the vision that infant massage is a parenting enrichment program that cultivates love, compassion and respect for infants and children through touch all around the world.

Music & Nursery Rhymes

Music 4 Kids Online
The Music Education for Young Children section provides a complete music education resource for children from birth to eight years old. Topics include music development, music and the brain, songs and music games, and professional music organizations.

Best Children's Music. Com
Provides a very select, but exceptional library of children's music that is updated regularly.

Nursery Rhymes by Starstogether
A list of classic songs and rhymes accompanied by music The lyrics can be printed.

HPD'S Nursery Rhyme Page
A list of classic songs and rhymes accompanied by music. The lyrics can be printed.

Work From Home

The ParentPreneur Club
Many of today's parents discover that working at home is the best way to raise a family and support them, too. Tips, tools and resources for busy moms and dads who work at home.

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