I do lots of professional reading, some of it on the internet. I have a Pinterest board where I pin much of what I read. Feel free to check it out. When I find something that may be of special interest to you, I’ll include a link here.
- How to Ease Your Child’s Kindergarten Jitters by Dr. Michelle Borba. It works for preschool jitters, too!
- While technically not a “Good Read,” this little video from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on the importance of vaccines passes along some valuable information. It’s a “Good Watch.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtJ_rUjfmBo#t=86
- Looking for more information on vaccinating your children? Here’s another Good Watch, this time from the folks at NOVA: “Vaccines — Calling the Shots.”
- Keeping Babies Safe. This is a great resource for parents looking for information about keeping babies safe in the nursery. “Cribs are the most important product in your home for your baby, the only place where your child is left unattended. We supply reliable information to parents so they can be better informed to protect their babies.”
- Eight Reasons Why Print Trumps Digital for Reading.
- Brain, Child. “The magazine for thinking mothers.”
- How To Raise a Grounded, Creative Child by Nancy Carlsson-Paige.
- Building Self-Control, The American Way. On February 17, 2012, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang wrote in The New York Times: “. . . childhood self-control is twice as important as intelligence in predicting academic achievement. Conversely, poor self-control in elementary school increases the risk of adult financial difficulties, criminal behavior, single parenthood and drug dependence.”
- Playdough Power. What’s so great about playdough? Everything!
- Cooperative Children’s Book Center: Books for Beginning Readers.
- Cooperative Children’s Book Center: More Books for Beginning Readers.
- Developmental milestones for preschoolers.
- More developmental milestones from the CDC.
- Preschooler development.
- The Early Literacy Web.
- Preparing your child for preschool and kindergarten.
- Intellectual, physical, social and emotional development of the 3-year old.
- Tips for encouraging kindness in young children.
- Tips for dealing with sibling issues.
- Tips for teaching your child to become independent with daily routines.
- Tips for teaching your child to cooperate with your requests.
- Children and pets.
- Helping your child cope with the death of a pet.
- Understanding children’s fears.
- What are they learning? Seeing the concepts and skills children can learn through play.
- The International Children’s Digital Library — “The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.”
- Hilary Stout writes about the importance of play in Effort to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum. Published on-line at The New York Times on January 5, 2011.
- Diane Mayr, my writing colleague and good friend, writes about the need for nature in the lives of our children in Run for Those Hills/Not Exactly a Writing Tip. Published on-line at author Lynne Marie’s blog My Word Playground on December 28, 2010.
- Roni Caryn Rabin writes about the benefits of friendship in Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic and Relationships. Published on-line at The New York Times on December 20, 2010.