The American Academy of Pediatrics offers advice on child rearing in three parenting guides that are most recommended by pediatricians.
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. This book contains more than 660 pages of parenting advice! The first section is a comprehensive month-by-month and year-by-year parenting manual which covers topics from preparing for childbirth and choosing a pediatrician to bonding and basic child care. The second half is an encyclopedic guide to recognizing and dealing with health problems including how to handle common medical emergencies.
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Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages 5 to 12. More than 600 pages of valuable information on key emotional, physical, and behavioral issues that parents of school-age children confront. Topics include nutrition, injury prevention, sports participation, school readiness, developmental stages, behavioral problems, and family issues.
Named one of the best parenting books in 1995 by Child Magazine.
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Caring for Your Adolescent: Ages 12 to 21.
This 326-page reference book is designed to help you meet the unique challenges of raising your adolescent. It addresses key medical and parental concerns from nutrition and sexuality to school failure and family conflict. This book provides the latest scientific information on promoting positive physical, emotional, cognitive, and psychological growth in adolescents.
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Keeping Records on Your Child
Child Health Record (HE0188, $2.95 single copy)
This 24-page booklet for parents includes forms for tracking and recording pertinent health information.
Child Health Guide (HE0004, $2.95 single copy)
This 40-page booklet for parents provides basic information about preventive services and includes forms for tracking and recording, immunizations, illnesses, and growth.
Rx for Good Health Growth Chart
(HE0139, $2.95 single copy)
A colorful 8 1/2" x 33" poster to chart your child's growth from birth to age 10. Also includes a variety of health information for parents on immunizations, nutrition, injury prevention, and more.
Healthy Kids Magazine
The AAP currently publishes the Healthy
Kids magazine, which offers parents of children from birth to age 10 important
information on child health. Free copies of Healthy Kids magazine are available
from your pediatrician.
Parent Resource Guide Order Form
Pediatrician Referral Source
For help in finding a qualified pediatrician or pediatric subspecialist, send the name of the desired area and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatrician Referral Source
141 Northwest Point Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098
Web Site:http://www.aap.org/
ParenthoodWeb:http://www.parenthoodweb.com
(Pediatricians and psychiatrists respond to your E-Mail (in due time). Many questions and answers posted.
Telephone Hotlines
Child Care Aware - 1-800-324-2246
Operators refer parents anywhere in the country to licensed and accredited childcare centers in their area. They will send also, at no charge, an in-formation packet on how to choose quality child care.
ChildHelp National Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD
Twenty-four-hour advice and referrals for children and adults in crisis. Staffers with graduate degrees in counseling answer questions related to behavior problems and child abuse.
National Parent Information Network: 1-800-583-4135
NPIN boasts the largest parenting database in the country. Researchers hunt down referrals, abstracts and answers--and send them free of charge--to hundreds of callers every month. Some of their information includes: the merits of playgroups vs. private preschools. Nothing is out of bounds here.
Parents Anonymous - 1-909-621-6184
This California based group refers parents to 45 state and regional affiliates, which offer support groups, counseling, and other services. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. CST.
The American Association For Gifted Children, Preschool Project
For more information about AAGC, contact Margaret Evans Gayle, Executive Director or call (919) 783-6152.
Write to us at:
American Association for Gifted Children
at Duke University
Box 90270
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0270