Child Care Resources: Parents Corner

Useful Links for the Whole Family

Please find below links to child care resources and websites that we think are useful for parents. 

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  • Family Fun

    • Discovery Channel School: DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that end we provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and an e
    • Family Education Centre: Family Education Centre is non-profit, charitable organization striving to enrich the quality of life for families through community-based, parent to parent education, support and training.
    • Kid Proof Canada: Safety courses for kids, babysitter training, home alone first aid, etc.
    • Kid’s Stuff: Websites for children and families.

  • Government Links

  • Just For Kids

    • Billy Bear’s Playground: Lots of opportunities for exploring, creating, reading and writing. Good stuff for teachers here too.
    • Dora the Explorer: This site links to Dora The Explorer, Thomas The Tank Engine, Bob The Builder, Blues Clues and many other popular kids shows.
    • Enchanted Learning: A favorite for thematic units, preschool activities, crafts, rebus rhymes, and much more.
    • Kid Grid Safe Sites: Fun, safe internet links for kids and family, carefully arranged in a colorful and easy to navigate pages.
    • Kids at National Geographic: The National Geographic Society is the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organization. And our responsibility to kids and educators is a natural outcome of our mission: “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge.”
    • kidsites.com: This link will allow your school age child to link to many child focused websites, which have been themed and previously screened to ensure appropriate content.
    • Learning Planet: Provides free activities for preschoolers as well as a subscription service to access many more activities. Current free activities include the alphabet, numbers, memory, sequencing and clocks.
    • Literacy Center: Sponsored by the Early Childhood Education Network, has interactive early literacy activities for young children in English, Spanish, Dutch and French.
    • Little Fingers: A site for toddler age children with games, storybooks and coloring pages.
    • Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood: Pictures, picture videos, and a place to build a neighborhood.
    • Preschool Coloring Book: Provides coloring pages, no-line coloring and journal pages on all sorts of subjects to facilitate practice of early literacy skills.
    • Raffi: The official Raffi website.
    • Robert Munsch: The official website for Canadian children’s author Robert Munsch.
    • Sesame Workshop: Games, stories, art, music, and mail activities for kids and a section for parents/teachers too. Sesame Street Music Station is a real treat. Don’t miss this one!
    • SkratchTrack.com: A reading education website for kids that records what kids read, rewards them for reading books, and keeps track of it all using a virtual bookshelf!
    • Thomas the Tank Engine: Games and information about the authors.
    • Tot’s TV: Accompanies the PBS television program. The Sticker Storybook is a great place to build oral language skills and vocabulary in both English and Spanish.
    • whatsupkids.com: A fun magazine geared for kids with interesting articles. The website has some great links including: word search, animal facts, rhymes and riddles etc.

  • Just for Parents

    • Canadian Parents Online: An online parenting community that provides parenting information for pregnant moms and parents of newborn babies, toddlers, preschoolers, schoolaged children and teenagers.
    • Hospital For Sick Children: The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto, is Canada’s most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children’s health in the country. Its mission is to provide the best in family
    • Today’s Parent: A popular magazine for parents, inc. 10 Little Things Good Parents Do article.
    • Toronto Child Abuse Centre: Toronto Child Abuse Centre is a community-based agency committed to eliminating child abuse through coordinating efforts to improve prevention, detection, reporting, investigation and treatment. Toronto Child Abuse Centre strives to develop and expand ser
    • Your Social Worker: Gary Direnfeld is a social worker with more than 20 years of experience working with parents, teens and young children. Courts in Ontario, Canada have deemed Gary and expert on child development, parent-child relations, and marital and family therapy. The