Family with Young Children

Young Children & Their Families - Center for the Study of Social Policy

With a network of local leaders, we work to achieve better, more equitable outcomes for all the nation's young children and their families.

For Families - NAEYC

Find research-based resources, tips and ideas for families—from child development to reading, writing, music, math, and more ...

8 Tips for Families with Young Children - California State PTA

As we celebrate the Week of the Young Child, April 9-15th, here are some of our favorite family engagement tips for families with young children.

Talking about Family with Preschoolers - the Sparkhouse Blog!

For young children, their families are essentially their whole world. Infants and toddlers depend on their caregivers for everything—and ...

Resources for Families with Young Children at Home - HSS

Learn ways to engage with your children and make sure that they stay active at home to help promote healthy growth and development.

How are the lives of families with young children changing?

We explore how family context and social and economic factors are combining to create a new environment for early childhood that is marked by inequality and ...

Articles for Families on Behavior and Development - NAEYC

Find research-based resources, tips and ideas for families on young children's learning and development.

Families: An Introduction | Virtual Lab School

Families: An Introduction. Family members are the most important people in young children's lives, and impact how infants and toddlers develop and learn. To ...

8 Strategies for Engaging the Families of Young Children

Some of these strategies are intended to strengthen relationships: between parents and children and between parents and early childhood educators.

Why is family important in a child's development? - ABC Quality

Having loving family and caregivers around helps a child build a solid foundation that will affect their future relationships, work, health and sense of self.

Family Life - HealthyChildren.org

Family Life · Power of Play. Beyond the fun and games, play is essential to your child's health and development. · Health Management. A medical home combines ...

Supporting the Parents of Young Children | National Academies

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the family—which includes all primary caregivers—are at the foundation ...

Families with young children: A review of research in the 1990s.

Summarizes, critiques, and reflects on research conducted in the 1990s on families with children in the 1st decade of life. Also included in this review are ...

Engaging and Supporting Young Children and their Families in ...

This study explores the role of family partners, peer professionals with lived experiences of raising a child with behavioral health needs, and their value

Family Engagement - ECLKC - HHS.gov

Family engagement is a collaborative and strengths-based process through which early childhood professionals, families, and children build positive and goal- ...

Strong families: how they work | Raising Children Network

Being warm, caring and affectionate with your child helps to build strong family relationships. Positive attention is also important for ...

Families with young children during the COVID-19 pandemic—The ...

Our study confirms that high stress limits the adaptability of providing HLA in families and that social support mitigates negative relations between stress ...

Full article: Being a child in the family: young children describe ...

Conclusively, the children balanced their own selves with an undemanding respect for parental care and adult competence. The study contributes ...

Let's Talk About … Young Children and Family Structures

Working with children. Keep in mind that a young child's family is central to their identity. Children need to know that their teachers value their families.

Opinion | The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum)

More children means more chaos, but also more joy, more chances for growth and more reminders to embrace the best parts of family life and ...