Parenting Links
Website links for resources, information and inspiration for moms, dads, kids and families. Please post a comment with any favorite parenting sites you'd like to recommend. (Photo: "Nanda Sunu)
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Sleep!
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Sleep resources -- because at 3am, what else matters?
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Attachment Parenting
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Resources to help you with Attachment Parenting, from the science to the practical.
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Breastfeeding
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Links to make it easy to breastfeed your baby.
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Calming Your Baby
Enough already: Strategies for calming crying!-
Harvey's Karp's simple but effective cure for colic and crying.
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BLOGS
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Fathers
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Searchable online reference, resource and network for Stay At Home Dads (SAHD) and their families.
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The national information centre on fatherhood, helping you harness the full potential of fatherhood with news, training information, policy updates, research summaries and guides for supporting fathers and their families.
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Blog by dad Kelly Crull, who lets us experience first-time fatherhood with him, from childbirth classes to first bath to whatever Alleke's learning this week.
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Brian Reid, a former at-home dad, blogs on how modern fathers can maximize their connection to family.
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Working Outside the Home v.s. Full-time Mothering
The great debate, with plenty of ambivalence and guilt to go around. All I can say is, why don't more men struggle with this?!-
Web site maintained by Leslie Morgan Steiner, editor of the book Mommy Wars, in which Career Moms and Full Time Mothers write about their choices and their children.
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Parents Movement
Parents uniting for common-sense, family friendly policies that make it possible to raise emotionally healthy children in a society that seems to conspire against it!-
Working Together to Build a Family Friendly America
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Great reporting and writing for mothers and others who think about social change
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They champion a culture of compassionate individuals, families, & communities who have fun with, learn from, & responsively & lovingly interact with children, through offering education about consciously conceiving, birthing & nurturing children.
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Good Reads
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Sustainable Family Life, Connection Parenting, Social Ecology. I highly recommend this thoughtful magazine.
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Indispensable magazine for the thinking parent.
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Breastfeeding, cosleeping, immunizations, Dads....
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Recommended Parenting Books
Many pages on this site have recommended books for particular ages or issues. This is my list of my favorite all-purpose parenting books.-
If you can't find what you're looking for here, look under specific ages or issues, like Infants, Attachment, Preschoolers, Positive Discipline, etc.
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Book Sources
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My favorite site/catalog of kids' books; a fantastic resource to keep your child reading.
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Online Bookstore with Books on Adoption, Parenting, Baby Names, Home Schooling, Twins...
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Online Bookstore with Books on Allergies, ADHD,Dyslexia and other health issues.
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Book Reviews & articles Parenting advice and articles on dealing with esteem, anger, child behavior, and other parenting issues.
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Parenting Resource Sites
General resource sites for all parents.-
Parenting advice on child development for all ages, including issues around adoption, divorce, and remarriage.
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Internet monitoring software, product seals of approval, and general tips.
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Holistic Parenting
Organic foods, natural health, fighting commercialism.-
Parenting is a tough job. It's even harder when you seem to be the only mom who is doing things "differently" -- whether that means seeking out natural therapies for your family, organic foods, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, homeschooling, cloth diapers...
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Childcare
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LifeWays is a multi-service organization providing consulting and training for family childcare providers, childcare centers and parents caring for children ages Birth to 6 years.
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Shopping
These companies support the health of babies, children and parents. I get no kickbacks, I just support their work.-
Terrific organic products and gifts for pregnancy, labor, postpartum, breastfeeding & babies.
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Uplifting, Re-Energizing and Motivating
When you need a little lift -- and who doesn't, sometimes? -- take a look at these sites. They're not all parenting-specific, but they'll all remind you that life is good-- and all parents need that from time to time!-
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