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The Art of Family Dinners: Making Time to Connect with Your Children
 
This article describes methods for increasing the value of a family dining together. "Family dinners can provide a valuable time for teaching. They can give everyone a chance to unwind, relax and talk together." Provides tips for making the most of family dinners with your children. Tips include turning off the TV and treating family members with respect. From a media company focused on parents and children.
http://www.recipestoday.com/articles/your-children/the-art-of-family-dinners-874/
Topics: Families
Last updated Jul 10, 2008
Child and Family WebGuide
Hundreds of annotated sites "that contain research-based information about child development." Includes a section for parents with after school activities, child care, family weekends, movies and media, private schools, and summer activities (these sites are not rated). Created by faculty and librarians at Tufts University.
http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/
Topics: Families
Last updated Jun 11, 2005
The Factbook: Eye-opening Memos on Everything Family
The Factbook is "an organized collection of research on family" created as a website companion for Po Bronson's book, "Why Do I Love These People?" Find approximately one hundred well-documented short articles and memos about family life, including facts, statistical data, and opinions. Topics include parenting, family roles and responsibilities, marriage, children, work, and more.
http://www.pobronson.com/factbook/
Topics: Families
Last updated Jan 4, 2006
Family Conversations and Family Mealtime
This site describes how a family eating dinner together "is a simple, effective way to reduce the risk of youth substance abuse and to raise healthier children." It also provides a short list of discussion topics such as sharing childhood memories and discussing books and movies. From the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
http://family.samhsa.gov/get/mealtime.aspx
Topics: Families
Last updated Apr 19, 2006
Global Family Day
This day celebrated on January 1 "is the world's first-ever annual celebration of the reality that we are all one human family striving for a safer world. This unifying new tradition, created by children, was unanimously passed (for the second time) on September 25th 2006 by the U.S. Congress. It has also been endorsed twice by the UN General Assembly." Site includes a history and founders' messages.
http://www.globalfamilyday.org
Topics: Families
Last updated Jan 2, 2007
iParenting.com
Covers a wide variety of topics associated with parenting, from preconception through the teen years. Includes information about pregnancy, adopting, traveling with children, family finances, being a grandparent, health, and more. Most material also available in Spanish. Searchable. From Disney Family.com
http://www.iparenting.com/
Topics: Consumer Research & Advocacy, Families
Last updated Aug 28, 2008
Museum of Childhood
Official website for this London museum that celebrates childhood. Features illustrated essays about different aspects of the history of childhood, and overviews of its collections of games (such as marbles, spillikins, and subbuteo), dolls, toys, children's costumes, and more. Also includes background about the museum building that was moved to Bethnal Green in 1866, and activities for children. This museum is part of the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/
Topics: Families
Last updated Mar 19, 2007
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