Parenting in the Early Years

This article offers parents information about play.

This topical guide will introduce you to important books, videos, and information resources available from the EI Clearinghouse regarding calming a fussy baby.

This resource provides information on looking at spaces to find opportunities to explore and grow together to make the most of time with children to help them grow.

Get expert advice on common parenting challenges in this CDC toolkit. Designed for parents of 2-4 year olds, this resource can help you build a positive, healthy relationship, encourage good behavior, and decrease misbehavior.

This topical guide will introduce you to important books, videos, and information resources available from the EI Clearinghouse regarding family fun.

Erikson Institute’s Fussy Baby Network helps families struggling with their infants’ crying, sleeping, or feeding. A range of services to support families are offered, including phone and in home consultations. All services in English and Spanish.

This tip sheet provides a list of ways babies start to understand the world around him or her.

This podcast, by Dr. Dan Siegel, talks about how the way we are brought up influences the way we bring up our kids—the power of the past on our parenting. He also describes how parents can use reflection and self-awareness to make good parenting decisions today.

This document is a series through the Pyramid Model that addresses how to support young children to listen and follow directions.

This article explains the importance of daily routines that are responsive to children’s individual needs and create a nurturing, flexible and positive environment where children’s needs are met

Just in Time Parenting is a free parenting newsletter that is delivered by email and specific to a child’s age and needs. They are designed so that information that’s relevant to your family is automatically delivered to you just in time!

This page provides links to podcasts that address some of the most common (and challenging) issues facing parents of babies and toddlers.

This page houses the report “Parents Under Pressure: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents”, gives key takeaways from the Advisory, and provides ways we can take action to support parental mental health.

This provides tips to offer some fun ways you can help your child become a happy and confident reader.

This page is a guide to serve and return which is about responsive interactions between children and the people who care for them, and how those interactions help children grow and reach their full potential. In this guide, learn more about what serve and return is, the science behind it, and how easy it is to help build strong brains by engaging in serve and return with a child.