HELP FOR PARENTS OR LIBRARIANS HELPING PARENTS

Parent Hacks: Daily parenting tips from the real experts—actual parents explains itself as providing “everything that was left out of the instruction manual. Oh Yeah. There is no instruction manual.” This collaborative site is read by over 20,000 people via email or you can subscribe to its RSS feed. I’m not a parent (except for two cats), but it looks like there are some very helpful tips here.

URL: http://www.parenthacks.com

FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS

ReadyWeb is a project of the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative, College of Education, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It “provides a Virtual Library of the full text of documents and articles, and hyperlinks to documents and articles, on various topics related to school readiness. ReadyWeb also provides bibliographies of documents and journal articles from the ERIC database. These bibliographies are updated quarterly.” Categories include: Tips for Parents, Research, Statistics, and Definitions, Getting Schools Ready for Children, and Public Policy Issues and Initiatives. It is searchable.

URL: http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/index.html