Active Play: Health Tips for Families
This fact sheet includes tips families can use to help young children develop positive active play behaviors.
Families
Encouraging Your Child to Drink Water
Giving children water with fluoride helps keep their teeth healthy. Learn about fun and easy ways to encourage children to drink water with fluoride.
Understanding Why Baby Teeth Are Important
Baby (primary) teeth are a child’s first set of teeth and by age 2½ to 3 years old, all 20 baby teeth will have come into the mouth. Taking care of a child’s baby teeth is important for their overall health and development.
Health Tips for Families Series
These fact sheets provide important information to families about a variety of health topics. Families can discover useful strategies to support and improve the health and wellness of their children.
The Well Visit Planner for Families
Learn about the Well Visit Planner, a free online tool that Head Start programs can use to help prepare families for well-child visits.
How Secondhand Smoke Affects the Health of Your Family
Use facts in this tip sheet to learn about the dangers of secondhand smoke and what may happen if children are exposed their children.
Oral Health Resources for Families
These resource materials can help families learn about oral health for pregnant women, infants and young children. Topics include dental visits, fluoride, nutrition, oral health care, oral hygiene, and safety and emergency first aid.
Activity Calendar for Families
Explore this activity calendar for families includes month-by-month activity lists for supporting the kindergarten transition in the year prior to kindergarten entry.
Taking Care of Your Oral Health When You Are Pregnant
It is important for pregnant women to take care of their oral health. Practicing good oral hygiene, eating healthy foods, and getting oral health care help keep a woman’s mouth and teeth healthy during pregnancy.
Choose and Use Guide for Finding Social-Emotional Programs for Parents
Head Start programs are increasingly involved in efforts to assist adult family members in gaining parenting skills that can both promote positive social-emotional development and prevent challenging behaviors. In recent years, a number of formal parenting curricula have been developed and researched. We have identified five such programs with promising effects.