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The Soho Center helps parents in a
variety of ways. Please take a
few
minutes to see what
we offer that can directly enhance your child's
education and well-being.
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Support
the Soho Center When You Buy at Amazon
Please consider buying your books
(or anything else) at Amazon starting with this link. Whatever
you buy will cost you exactly the same - but the Soho Center will get a
small fee from Amazon for each purchase. Click the link or on the Amazon logo
and then save the opening Amazon page as a bookmark. That way,
every purchase will always help us help more kids and families.
Thanks!
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S LITERACY
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Great
Literacy Tips You Can Use Today
Our
National
Children's Literacy
Website has literacy
tips, articles,
and literacy information to help you encourage your young child to
love books and learn to read.
If
your child is in child care, please tell your child's provider or
teacher about this site and encourage them to make use of these
literacy tips in their child care program.
The
Soho Center's National Children's Literacy Website is consistently
Google's #1 site for "children's literacy" out of over 23
million sites. We are delighted to be able to bring this
much-needed information to parents and child care providers!
A
Meaningful Gift For You and Your Child Care Provider or Center
The
Soho Center's National
Child Care Resource Directory
gives parents, providers, and centers information about hundreds
of free and low-cost child-related resources promoting children's
literacy, nutrition, health, and safety and for selecting
age-appropriate toys, educational materials, and non-sexist/
non-violent media. The new 5th Edition is
completely updated with addresses, toll-free phone numbers, and
websites as well
as short informative articles on issues of importance to parents and
to providers and teachers wanting to run a quality child care
program.
FIRSTCLASSPARENTS.COM Collaboration
The Soho Center's collaboration with FIRSTCLASSPARENTS.COM gives
families across America the
unique
opportunity to get confidential,
high-quality telephone consulting
and parenting
advice from Soho Center's Executive Director, Jeanna Beker.
Topice
can include age-appropriate expectations, learning activities,
breastfeeding and nutrition, toilet training, limit-setting and
discipline, language skills, social skills, sleep, adjusting to a
new baby, selecting the best child care situation for your child
and family, starting a new school, choosing the best
school for your child, establishing routines, selecting toys
and educational materials, enhancing children's literacy and
academic performance, and more.
 Parents
can find reliable health information and resources, including a medical
dictionary for kids, first aid information, consumer product safety
alerts, links to 14,000 health hot lines (in English and Spanish), car
seat information and ratings, daily health news, and much more. While this site
includes some Virginia-specific resources, there are many valuable
national resources for all parents looking for reliable,
non-commercial
health information.
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