Beginning with Baby

Baby Center offers expert advice and knowledge about your child's development and well being. This site offers a free tracker to document your child's growth and developmental progress, which is offered through their website or on their Application for phones and devices. Or if you plan on tracking development in another way, you can use Virginia's Milestones of Child Development as a key.

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Other Informative Websites on Child Development:

The website Zero to Three has numerous articles and resources for parents on different child developmental areas; here are a few:

• Brain Development
• Social/Emotional Development
• Early Math & Science Development

Funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Healthy Children website provides accurate and up-to-date information about the stages of your child's development, and access to information regarding all faucets of your child health and well being:

• Ages & Stages - covers stages from prenatal to young adult
• Healthy Living - covers nutrition, fitness, oral health, emotional well being, and sleep
• Safety & Prevention - covers all around safety, and immunizations
• Ask a Pediatrician

  
The Center for Disease Control has a page specifically for child development, and their milestones. Other resources on the page include: recent research articles, parenting tips, and screenings for young children who may have a disability.

Books on Child Development:

Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five
By: Penelope Leach

In this book, Dr. Leach describes stages from birth through starting kindergarten. She answers questions such as, what is happening to your child, what he or she is doing, experiencing and feeling. She tackles most of the questions parents often ask and the ones they dare not. 

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Zero to Five
​By: Tracy Cutchlow

 Tracy Cutchlow, a first-time mom, knows what you’re going through. In Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science (and What I’ve Learned So Far), she takes several of parenting tips based on scientific research and transforms them into something you can easily learn and understand. 

Activities to do with your infant or toddler

I often use this book to create lesson plans for toddlers. I recommend parents use it as well, because the activities are based on Milestones your children are developing. 

 

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Powerful Mothering is a site that has a collection of activities for your children by age or by theme.