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The Child & Family WebGuide
The WebGuide is a directory that evaluates, describes and provides links to hundreds of sites containing child development research and practical advice. Topics are selected on the basis of parent recommendations; they cover all ages, from early child development through adolescence... more.
Online searches for many parent topics yield information that is inconsistent with child development research. The WebGuide selects sites that have the highest quality child development research and that are parent friendly... more.
The WebGuide, a not-for-profit resource, was based on parent and professional feedback, as well as support from such noted child development experts as David Elkind, Edward Zigler, and the late Fred Rogers.
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The WebGuide is pleased to partner with Parents’ Action for Children to bring together child development information from selected leading Web sites on the PAC site. This is a promising effort to make reliable and regularly updated online material easily available to parents.
Other features of the WebGuide
About the features
Listed above are eight features that were selected in several parent focus groups. The features of particular parent interest are:
  • research news sites: child development articles that report the latest findings
  • ask an expert sites: opportunities to pose questions to experts in different areas of child development and to view answers to common parent questions.
Favorite parent topics
family/parenting: child adoption, divorce, video and computer games
education/learning: after school care, charter schools, home schooling, learning disabilities, literacy/reading, school violence
typical child development: anger management, language development, play, sleep
health/mental health: autism/asperger, behavior problems, depression, food allergies, grief/bereavement, health insurance
resources/recreation: after school activities, child care resources, homework
Types of information
The sites in the family, education, typical development and health categories provide child development articles with research findings. The sites in the resources category provide child development articles with practical information.
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Last Updated: 1/19/2009