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FOR PARENTS
Let us help! We hope to make your jobs as parents easier by offering you some
great websites that will help answer your questions about raising your kids. You may find some fun ideas along the way!
EDUCATION
Bridgeport Board of
Education Home Page http://www.bridgeportedu.com/index.html
All you need to know about the Bridgeport
Public Schools
THINGS TO DO, PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO MEET
The Beardsley Zoo
http://www.beardsleyzoo.org
Where the wild things
are...at Connecticut's only zoo!
The Discovery Museum
http://www.discoverymuseum.org
Where the science and kids meet!
The Barnum Museum
http://www.barnum-musuem.org
From the founder of The Greatest Show on Earth!
PARENTING SITES
Great Kids Connecticut
www.greatkidsct.org
One stop shopping for wonderful resources on just
about any topic to do with children in the State of Connecticut and
beyond.
American Library
Association Resources for Parents and Kids
www.ala.org/parents/index.html
Loads of links for parents of children birth to age 14.
Family
Education Network
www.familyeducation.com/home
This site is full of helpful information
and links for children of all ages.
Backyard
Habitat
http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/
Turn your backyard into a wildlife habitat
and learning center with the National Wildlife Federation!
Parent's Primer
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/Childrens_Services/primer.html
A parenting primer of selected materials about difficult topics from the Allen County (Indiana) Public Library.
Smart-Mouth.org for Kids
http://www.cspinet.org/smartmouth/
Nutritional information for kids from the Center for Science in the Public Interest with fun games, quizzes and lots of food facts.
READING RESOURCES
Between the Lions
http://pbskids.org/lions/
Get wild about reading with this PBS series website filled with fun reading activities.
Get Ready to Read!
http://www.getreadytoread.org/
This site includes a handy screening tool
for finding out if your four year old is ready to read.
BPL Summer Reading Lists
http://www.futuris.net/bpl/chils/html/chilsumreadlist.htm
We recommend the best books by grades for
summer reading this year!
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