Parenting for toddlers
Website providing parents with parenting advice. Gives videos and best practice research
Source: cdc.gov
United Angels
The United Angels Foundation (UAF) is a non-profit, parent-to-parent support group. The primary mission of the foundation is to support parents and families of children with special needs.
Source: unitedangelsfoundation.org
Toxic Stress
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. This website gives information on this research.
Source: cdc.gov
Sensory Processing Disorder
A thorough explanation and a name for the behaviors and developmental concerns that exist - which seemed almost impossible to understand or cope with.
Source: sensory-processing-disorder.com
The Happiest Toddler
Source: happiestbaby.com
http://www.happiestbaby.com/learn-about-your-baby-toddler/the-happiest-toddler-on-the-block/
Temperament
Parenting Counts is a research-based resource developed to support parents and caregivers in raising socially and emotionally healthy children. Our approach is to provide parents, caregivers, and early learning professionals with information they can trust, understand, and use in their daily interactions with children.
Source: parentingcounts.org
Purple Crying
The Period of PURPLE Crying begins at about 2 weeks of age and continues until about 3-4 months of age. There are other common characteristics of this phase, or period, which are better described by the acronym PURPLE. All babies go through this period. It is during this time that some babies can cry a lot and some far less, but they all go through it.
Source: purplecrying.info
Social and Emotional Development
A website for parents to find social and emotional milestones. These are some signs of emotional and social develpment that can be harder to pinpoint.
Source: pbs.org
Safe Sleep for infants
In an effort to reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) updated policy statement and technical report includes recommendations on how to create a safe sleep environment.
Source: healthychildren.org
Shh, Shh, It's Okay: Coping With Crying in Babies and Toddlers (Podcast)
This podcast welcomes Dr. Pam High to talk about one of the most distressing issues for so many new parents: how to cope with fussiness and crying.
Source: zerotothree.org