The caregiver’s role is vital to helping infants and toddlers establish a solid social and emotional foundation.

The same concepts and skills you are helping your child learn while sitting in your house can be done in the backyard or a park.

Tips on communicating more with your baby or young child and a short quiz to help you see "how you are doing."

How to prevent negative outcomes from your child’s exploration and learning while maximizing the opportunity for positive outcomes.

How to help prepare a child for kindergarten.

Selecting books for preschoolers, 4 and 5 years.

Selecting books for infants — birth to 18 months.

Selecting books for toddlers — 18 months to 4 years

Visit the public library and spend more time reading and talking with children.

How to use resources that support getting to know individual children, how to be emotionally, as well as physically, available to children, and how to develop systems that support knowing individual children.

Importance of play in development of children.

Value of play for children in their development.

Your baby was born to learn, and as a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher.

Early Brain development information, including information on the importance reading to infants and young children plays in their development.

Since children learn new words by hearing them and seeing them, parents and caregivers can do much to add to children's vocabularies.

How to teach children what is expected, set rules and standards for approved conduct, and define and enforce consequences for behavior.

Through the Association of Idaho Cities (AIC), the Idaho Values Youth (IVY) and the America’s Promise Programs are actively engaged in assisting Idaho communities in creating a positive and nurturing environment for all children, youth and adults.

A developmental monitoring and screening program for Idaho children (birth to 3 years of age) to answer questions about an infant or toddler's development.

Tips to help prepare children welcome the new sibling.

Links, videos, books for parents and caregivers to help a child develop a love of reading.

Self-esteem must be fostered, developed, nurtured and grown.

How busy parents who work all day can fit reading into the few hours they have with their children.

The importance of touch to the early development of infants.

Tips and supports to help adults teach children that emotions are a part of life, but should be expressed in acceptable ways.

April 30 marks a special day in the lives of children. It is a day to celebrate children and books.

The "powerful package of skills and preferences" babies have from birth that function as a magnet between them and the adults and children around them.

A Blended Certificate is a new, exciting undergraduate program that focuses on the skills needed to effectively teach every young child between birth and grade three.

How to handle the panic that strikes when you find your child on a table or atop a chest of drawers — without dampening the child’s enthusiasm for exploration.

Tips for parents, child care providers, and educators on the challenges faced by a child with asthma and how best to manage their symptoms and environment to maximize their learning and development.

If you thought your house or your car were the most important "assets" your family had, read this article to see how to provide the best "assets" your child will need.

Information on the developmental stages of children (birth to 3 years of age) and age appropriate activities which encourage learning in children.

PowerPoint presentations on Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health.

Idaho and national resources which promote the importance of preparing young children for learning and school.