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Visit PBS KIDS Island for reading games, activities, and more!
Parenting Counts
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What's on for Kids
Struggling to Learn
Millions of American school children struggle with serious learning problems. The Struggling to Learn Web site puts learning disabilities into perspective by profiling a variety of learning problems, treatments, expert opinions and resources.
Talking with Kids About...
Many parents are concerned by what kids are saying about the threat of war and other scary news, and are wondering how to respond in age-appropriate ways. The PBS Parents Guide to Talking With Kids About War and Violence helps parents communicate with children and soothe their fears.
Talking with Kids About...
Fast, age-appropriate strategies for communicating with kids about common illnesses, medicine, & the doctor. Plus, see illness through your child's eyes!
Parent Resources
Community Co-ordinated Childcare (4-C's)
Provides support to both families and day care providers. If you need help finding daycare for your children or improving your program as a provider, this site will get you started.
The Indiana State Teacher's Assoc. Parent Zone
Learn what you can do to help your child be successful at school.
The National Parent Information Network
Supported by the National Library of Education and the U. S. Dept. of Education, this site contains a wealth of articles on virtually any topic that might arise for parents or those who work with parents.
LD Online
A comprehensive and easy to use resource for anyone struggling with learning disabilities. Parents, teachers, and kids can all gain useful ideas here.
Parenting Counts
Overview
WNIT Public Television Education/Outreach is proud to be a recipient of both a 2007 and a 2006 Parenting Counts Outreach Grant from Talaris Research Institute and a 2005 train-the-trainer grant from the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration.
Parenting Counts: A Focus on Early Learning, co-developed by Talaris and KCTS Seattle/Television, brings research on best parenting practices into parent's daily lives through a series of television spots and workshops. The goals of the program are to
- Stimulate greater awareness of early learning (birth to five years)
- Promote more effective parenting and caregivers techniques
- Enhance parent-child relationships
Outreach
How does 'Parenting Count' at WNIT?
Through community partnerships, train-the-trainer and parent workshops, on-air spots, and a lending library of children's books and training materials. There is no other job more important than raising healthy, happy, secure and competent children. Parenting Counts' simple 60 second on-air spots offer research-based information and tips to parents in language easy to understand.
Parenting Counts Community Partners
These organizations have undergone train-the-trainer workshops and can pass on information about early learning to parents and caregivers in their communities:
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In Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana Head Start Consortium of Elkhart and St.Joseph Counties CAPS (Child and Parent Services) In Cass, Fulton and Wabash Counties, Indiana Area Five Head Start |
In St. Joseph County, Michigan St. Joseph County Intermediate School District In St. Joseph, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, and Starke Counties, Indiana Community Coordinated Child Care (4 C's) |
In Berrien County, Michigan Berrien County Intermediate School District Tri-County Head Start |