Enjoying Winter Holidays with Your Children

Everything about celebrating the winter holidays changes when we have children. Learn how to manage stress and enjoy time with your family over the holiday season.

Adjusting to Parenthood

Nine months of waiting and planning, and now you have your baby. Now what? No amount of reading, babysitting, or watching friends and family members become parents can really prepare you for being a parent yourself.

Adjusting to Parenthood, Part 2

In this course, you will explore changes that occur in the various relationships in your life and ways to adjust to those shifts, as well as changes to finances and the attendant emotions that come with them.

Understanding Parenting Styles

In this course, you will learn about four well-accepted styles of parenting. With this knowledge, you can examine your parenting style and practices and learn how to best adapt them to strive for the best outcomes for your child.

Parenting Tips and Tricks

This course turns some of the chances for "parenting fails" into parenting wins using some hard-learned parenting hacks! Hopefully, they will save you some trial and error along your way.

Organizing Tips for Busy Families

Parents have personal and often professional obligations, commitments as a couple, and their kids' schedules and appointments. The key to taking care of all of these obligations and engagements is to stay organized.

Maintaining a Work-Life Balance

Finding a work-life balance is incredibly challenging for the vast majority of parents. Additionally, it is constantly evolving as your children grow, and their demands on your time change.

Fostering Healthy Sibling Relationships

In this course, you will learn some strategies for fostering strong relationships between and among your children.

Potty Training Best Practices

This course will help you know when your child is ready for potty training. It will then help you decide on the method that will work best for your family, as well as set you up with tips for success.

Preparing Your Child for College

The purpose of this course is to help you help your child prepare for college throughout high school. It offers guidelines to help you both find the right college for them, as well as tips on applying and paying.

COVID-19 Safety Practices

This course provides basic information everyone should know about preventing the spread of COVID-19. Participants will learn handwashing practices, the signs and symptoms, proper cleaning, and how to talk to your child about COVID-19.

Creating Safe Sleep Environments

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year. This course increases your knowledge about SIDS and informs you about safe sleep environments and other risk-reduction strategies.

Setting a Sleep Schedule for Baby

When you bring home a new baby, sleep becomes hard to come by. As your baby ages, it is important for you and them to begin sleeping for longer; this course is meant to help you move in that direction.

Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome

Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is a devastating form of physical child abuse and the leading cause of death in child abuse cases in the U.S. -- 1,200 to 1,400 cases are reported yearly. This course helps you understand and prevent instances of SBS.

The Impact of Child Abuse

In 2018, there were over 4 million Child Protective Services referrals of alleged abuse in the U.S. As a parent, you are likely around other children often. This course introduces different types of child abuse and helps you identify it.

Indoor Safety Measures

Most accidents in the home can be prevented, and careful supervision makes all the difference. This course provides practical information and tips that will help you create a safe indoor environment for your child.

Outdoor Safety Tips

Playgrounds are a fun way for your child to be active, but according to the CDC over 200,000 children visit emergency rooms in the U.S. each year because of playground injuries. This course provides you with ways to prevent common outdoor injuries.

Becoming an Eco-Friendly Household

This course offers strategies for moving toward an eco-friendly lifestyle, including activities for promoting environmental awareness in young children.

Common Environmental Hazards

This course explores common environmental hazards and recommended practices for maintaining a safe, healthy environment for young children.

Child Passenger Safety

Motor vehicle accidents are the 2nd most common cause of death for children between the ages of 1-5. This course offers practices to help you safely transport your child, including an overview of the proper use of child passenger restraint systems.

Boost Your Booster Seat Safety IQ

Most parents have gotten the message about the importance of using a car seat for their infants and toddlers. This course will show you when to start using a booster seat, what to look for in one, and when a child can stop using it.

Roadtripping with Kids

Road trips can be exciting and exhausting for anyone, especially children. By the end of this course, you should feel confident about hitting the road with your family, ready to make the journey, not just the destination, part of the fun.

Oral Health in Early Childhood

According to the CDC, tooth decay is one of the most common chronic infectious diseases among U.S. children. It is also one of the most preventable. This course addresses the importance of early and consistent oral health care for your child.

Avoiding Foodborne Illnesses

Foodborne illnesses are caused by bacteria that enter the body through contaminated food both outside and inside the home. This course details the risks and causes of foodborne illnesses, as well as basic rules regarding sanitation and food safety.

Food Allergies in Early Childhood

Researchers estimate about 3 million children in the U.S. have food allergies. This course provides you with an overview of common food allergies that can impact a child and ways to keep children with food allergies safe.

Basic Nutrition for Children

With all the contradicting info about nutrition, deciding on the best diet for your child can be confusing. This course provides science-based information to support you in developing positive and healthy nutritional habits for your child.

Encouraging Healthy Nutrition Habits

Basic Nutrition provided an overview that will help you develop healthy nutritional habits for your child. This course dives deeper into how healthy habits begin at home and how you as a parent can influence your child’s eating habits for life.

Fit for Life

Fitness is essential for a happy and healthy life. This course will provide you with strategies and methods to improve physical fitness and incorporate movement activities with your child.

The Facts About Childhood Obesity

There are numerous health and developmental consequences associated with childhood obesity. In this course, you’ll learn about childhood obesity and the potential consequences to a child’s overall health and well-being.

Preventing Childhood Obesity

A follow-up to Facts About Childhood Obesity, this course equips you with strategies for addressing obesity and promoting healthy behaviors that will improve the well-being of your child.

Playing with Infants and Toddlers

Early childhood experts have identified important benefits of play, many of which support success in relationships and academics as they age. This course will show you how to help your young child learn and grow through play.

Choosing Appropriate Toys

Toys are a significant aspect of childhood, but often, parents become overwhelmed by the sheer amount. Now, studies have shown that less is more when it comes to toys.

Digital Media Trends and Guidelines

Technology’s evolving quickly, and it can be difficult for parents to know what’s best when it comes to their child. This course teaches you about suitable media usage and the latest research on how digital media affects early childhood development.

Effects of Technology on Children

Technology’s evolving quickly, and it can be difficult for parents to know what’s best when it comes to their child. This course dives into the ever-evolving world of technology and the ways digital devices are reshaping modern childhood.

Use of Technology with Children

Learn about the ever-evolving world of technology and digital media and the ways in which devices are reshaping modern childhood.

Cell Phones and Social Media

As a parent, you might be wondering when is it acceptable to allow my child to join social media as well as when you should buy them their first cell phone. This course aims to help you find informed answers to these questions.

Brain Development Basics

The human brain is a remarkable organ. This course introduces you to the basic parts and developmental processes in the human brain, as well as conditions that young brains need to develop to their full potential.

Promoting Brain Development

A human brain is a fascinating tool that is responsible for every movement we make, thought we think, and emotion we feel. There are specific things you can do to create an environment that is optimal for brain development.

How Young Children Learn

This course explores basic theories regarding the ways young children learn new behaviors and skills. The content of this course focuses on different theories in behavioral and developmental psychology, such as the work of Jean Piaget.

What is Growth Mindset?

This course provides parents with an understanding of the concept of a growth mindset. The course discusses the importance of establishing a growth mindset approach to learning at a young age.

Establishing a Growth Mindset Environment

This course provides you with a deeper understanding of the growth mindset. It discusses the importance of establishing an environment that helps your child establish a growth mindset.

Growth Mindset Activities

This course provides parents with an understanding of the concept of a growth mindset. The course discusses the importance of establishing a growth mindset approach to learning at a young age.

Fostering Listening Skills

Research shows that only 25% of adults listen effectively. Learn the necessary techniques to improve your child’s listening skills, which in turn helps their overall language development.

Promoting Language Development

Research suggests a child’s ability to use and understand words is directly related to their reading and writing abilities later in life. This course offers strategies to support your child’s conversation skills and vocabulary knowledge.

Reading with Infants and Toddlers

This course is designed to help you and your child get the most out of reading together. It highlights reading-related activities that will help build your child's brain and skills, and more importantly, your relationship with them.

The Importance of Storytelling

Storytelling is an essential building block of literacy in early childhood. This course explains the benefits of storytelling and a number of story forms that are appropriate for your child.

Building Literacy Through Storytelling

Set your child up for literacy success from an early age. This course describes the benefits of storytelling in early childhood, and how it promotes basic literacy skills, self-expression, and critical thinking.

Best Practices for Storytelling

The ability to tell a good story is an important skill for interacting with your child. This course covers basic story elements and storytelling best practices.

The Development of Play

This course focuses on the development of play, which can be incorporated into most childhood activities. With a better understanding, parents can support children’s healthy, optimal development across all areas of learning.

Drawing Skills Development

This course explores the typical development of drawing skills, starting with scribbling. Parents will learn about the importance of drawing and appropriate ways to encourage children to engage in more drawing.

The Value of Pre-Math Skills

Before your child even learns to read numbers, they can learn the foundations of mathematics. You can focus on developing specific cognitive skills, including counting, sorting, patterning, sequencing, and problem-solving.

The Importance of Math in Early Childhood

A solid mathematical foundation is beneficial for your child’s success later in life. This course highlights why math is important for your child’s academic success, as well as what great math instruction looks like.

Teaching Math Through Play

Math is often a subject that many adults dread. But math isn't just worksheets and long division. This course will show you how to expand your child’s understanding of math in a fun way.

The Importance of Science

Studies have found that American students tend to lag behind students from other countries in math and science. As a parent, you can help your child be successful in science later in life by encouraging science skills from an early age.

What is STEM?

This course provides you with the tools and insights necessary to enhance STEM-related learning through the integration of a wide variety of activities.

Integrating the Arts and STEM

Art activities provide an excellent platform for introducing STEM concepts and developing STEM-related skills. This course will introduce you to the acronym STEAM and provide multiple activity ideas for bringing STEAM into your home.

Young Children and Stress

Stress is a part of everyone′s lives, including young children. This course is designed to help you understand the sources and symptoms of childhood stresses and help you help children cope.

Helping Children Manage Stress

Stress can be a motivating factor in our lives, or it can stop us in our tracks. This course will help you give your child important stress management skills at a young age.

Introduction to Mindfulness with Children

As a parent, life can be stressful. Unfortunately, that stress often transfers to children. The goal of mindfulness is to live a more peaceful, meaningful, and balanced life. This course explores the need for mindfulness when caring for your child.

Mindfulness Activities for Families

This course helps you support mindfulness practices with your child and plan for them throughout the day.

Building Your Child's Self-Esteem

This course is intended to build your confidence in your ability to build the same in your child.

Teaching Your Child Body Autonomy

Body autonomy breaks down to an individual’s right to make their own choices when it comes to their body without pressure or coercion. This concept is essential for children of all ages, genders, and ethnicities.

Introduction to Childhood Trauma

Trauma can have a lasting effect on people of all ages. This course examines the impact of different forms of childhood trauma and explores ways that you can support children who have experienced trauma.

Resilience: Coping Skills for Difficult Times

Life is full of events, some joyful, some sad, and some seemingly impossible to get through. Whether a child is experiencing a challenging task, a bad day, or a traumatic event, they will need a set of skills to help them work through the situation.

The Effect of Divorce on Children

Divorce is a fact of life, and it can have dramatic, long-term effects on a child's development. This course will introduce you to the emotional, physical, and other divorce responses of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and older children.

Helping Children Cope with Divorce

Going through a divorce is a challenging time for a family. With the right tools, you can help your child cope and provide essential nurturing and support. This course offers strategies you can use to help them through this difficult time.

Introduction to Grief and Loss

Grief and loss can be all-consuming for anyone at any age. This course will explore how children experience grief and loss.

How Young Children Experience Grief and Loss

This course will explore how a child between birth and 4 experience grief and loss. Being familiar with how children understand and process loss will help you support them through the grieving process.

How School-Age Children Experience Grief and Loss

This course will explore how children ages 5 or up experience grief and loss. Being familiar with how children understand and process loss will help you support them through the grieving process.

Helping Your Child Cope with Grief

In this course, you will explore recommended practices for helping your child cope with the death of a loved one and other associated losses.

Teaching About Manners and Respect

This course provides strategies you can use to teach your child about manners and respect. It also explains how you can reinforce the behaviors you want to see more of in the future.

An Introduction to Positive Guidance

When a child acts inappropriately, it can be hard for parents to remain calm. Positive guidance, a philosophy for guiding children′s behaviors, can be a helpful tool. This course explains how to use positive guidance techniques with your child.

Developmental Aspects of Positive Guidance

As children learn new skills, they often are faced with challenging situations. Understanding those challenges can help parents positively support children’s development. This course explores the elements of positive guidance strategies.

Positive Guidance Strategies for Success

Responding positively to challenging behaviors is vital to helping a child learn self-regulation skills. Positive guidance is a philosophy for guiding behavior, and this course provides strategies you can use when interacting with your child.

Infant & Toddler Positive Guidance

Learn why it’s important to respond to your infant or toddler’s behaviors in a positive manner. This course reviews and expands upon theories and concepts regarding human behavior and early childhood development.

Setting Limits with Infants and Toddlers

Learn actionable ways to respond to your child’s behaviors in a positive manner. This course introduces ways to set limits for your child and includes strategies for promoting self-identity, self-confidence, and self-control.

Positive Guidance Tools for Infants and Toddlers

Challenging experiences often result in challenging behaviors for children. This course offers strategies for responding to these behaviors while helping establish a positive relationship between you and your child.

Positive Guidance and Child Development

Responding to your child’s behavior in a positive way is essential for their emotional well-being. This course explores positive guidance, theories that support it, and why it’s important to use positive guidance with your preschool/school-age child.

Responding to Common Behaviors

Children often test their boundaries, and the way you respond affects their emotional well-being. This course explores positive guidance, why your child engages in challenging behaviors and strategies you can use with your child.

Positive Guidance Strategies for Children

Having a set of tools to support your child through challenging behaviors is vital for helping them develop confidence and self-regulation. This course focuses on positive guidance practices you can use with your preschool/school-age child.

Understanding Biting

The course will explore the reasons young children bite. It also provides information about how biting is associated with child development. Lastly, participants will learn appropriate strategies for handling biting situations.

Early Childhood Development: An Overview

Early childhood development is the first stage in a human’s lifespan. This course serves as an overview of your child’s physical, emotional, and intellectual development from birth to age eight.

Developmental Delights: Birth to 3 Months

During this stage of development, newborns begin interacting with the rest of the world. As a parent, it’s helpful to know what to expect. In this course, you will learn the characteristics of a newborn baby’s development from birth to 3 months.

Developmental Delights: 3 to 6 Months

Newborns learn so much from their environment and interactions with others. As a parent, it’s helpful to know what to expect during your child’s development. This course covers the characteristics of a baby’s development from 3 to 6 months.

Developmental Delights: 6 to 9 Months

At 6-9 months, infants do more physically, cognitively, and socially than in their first 6 months of life. It’s helpful to know what to expect at this age, and this course covers the characteristics of a child′s development from 6 to 9 months.

Developmental Delights: 9 to 12 Months

As infants approach their first birthday, there are many changes happening in their minds and bodies. It’s helpful to know what to expect at this age, and this course covers a child′s development from 9 to 12 months.

Developmental Delights: 12 to 18 Months

At this age, children learn new words and skills daily. It’s helpful to know what to expect during different stages, and this course covers early childhood development characteristics in children from 12 to 18 months.

Developmental Delights: 18 to 24 Months

At this age, children become more independent, confident, and bold. It’s helpful to understand the different stages and milestones, and this course covers the early childhood development characteristics in children from 18 to 24 months.

Developmental Delights: 2-Year-Olds

Two-year-olds become more surefooted, making it easier for them to explore the world. It’s helpful to understand your child’s different stages and milestones, and this course covers the early childhood development characteristics of two-year-olds.

Developmental Delights: 3-Year-Olds

Three-year-olds are eager to please and enthusiastic about learning. It’s helpful to understand the different stages of your child’s development, and this course explores the milestones of three-year-olds across all areas of development.

Developmental Delights: 4-Year-Olds

By age four, children have well-developed language skills, more advanced motor skills, and insatiable curiosity. It’s helpful to understand your child’s different developmental stages, and this course explores the milestones of four-year-olds.

Developmental Delights: 5-Year-Olds

Five-year-olds are gaining a grasp on their place in the family and society. They are aware of life’s ups and downs but still have difficulty dealing with their emotions sometimes. This course explores the developmental milestones of five-year-olds.

Introduction to Inclusion and the ADA

Learning a child has a disability can be confusing for a parent. This course introduces practices that support a child with special needs. It also explores the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it applies to school and child care settings.

Inclusive Early Learning Programs

Finding the right educational setting for a child with a disability can be hard. This course provides guidance for finding high-quality early learning experiences for children with disabilities and investigates practices used by inclusive programs.

Strategies to Support Children with Disabilities

When a child has a disability, it’s important to understand ways to ease daily life for parents and the child. This course addresses the different disability categories and strategies that can be used at home to support a child who has a disability.

Introduction to ADHD

It is important for parents to understand the challenges a child with ADHD may face. This course introduces the basic facts about ADHD, including the characteristics commonly associated with this condition.

ADHD: Tools for Families

Having a child with ADHD can be challenging for parents, especially if they do not know the best ways to help them. This course covers treatment options and recommended strategies to help a child with ADHD.

Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder

When a child is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) it is important for parents to educate themselves on the diagnosis as much as possible. This course introduces you to ASD, and the characteristics commonly associated with the condition.

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Tools for Families

Raising a child that has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can feel overwhelming. This course helps you familiarize yourself with strategies that will help you support a child diagnosed with ASD.

Sensory Processing Explained

Sensory processing disorder can be especially challenging for parents to understand because children’s sensory sensitivities can be quite unique. This course acquaints you with sensory processing and a basic overview of sensory processing disorder.

Sensory Processing Tools and Strategies

Helping a child with a sensory processing issue is experimental in nature because one-size-fits-all treatments do not necessarily exist. This course explores several helpful strategies for meeting the needs of a child with a sensory processing issue.