Parenting

Newcomer Parents Speak Out On CNC – Unveiling Some Surprising Results!

To better understand how parents feel about the care their children receive, CMAS designed and conducted an evaluation. Read more...

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For Newcomer Parents with Teens

Most families leaving their home country and starting life in a new country feel sadness and grief mixed with a sense of hope and excitement about the future. When families work together, they can support each other and achieve more than if they just work alone.

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Talk to Your Baby – Multilingual Quick Tips

UK's National Literacy Trust, Talk To Your Baby has produced a series of quick tips for parents and practitioners to help children develop good talking and listening skills. Each sheet is available bilingually in thirteen languages.

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Growing Up in a New Land – A Guide for Newcomer Parents

The Best Start Resource Centre has announced the publication of a new booklet for parents of children 0-6 titled Growing Up in a New Land - A Guide for Newcomer Parents. This booklet contains information on: support for parents, parenting in Canada, keeping your child healthy and safe, taking care of yourself as parents and additional services for newcomer parents. Paper copies of the booklet can also be ordered at $1.25 each.

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Multilingual Tipsheets

The Illinois Early Learning Project website is a source of information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children. Here you will find 171 tipsheets that are available in different languages.

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Free Multilingual Resources!

The Best Start Resource Centre offers multilingual resources for parents in their home language. Languages available include: Arabic, Filipino, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Tamil and Urdu. The resource “You and your baby…” is also available in two Aboriginal languages. You can download the resources online at: https://resources.beststart.org/product-category/resources/languages-other-than-english-and-french/ Programs can also order print versions of these resources in languages other than English and French. The Best Start Resource Centre will consider special requests from registered charitable organizations who may have funding limitations.

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Resource Kit for New Immigrant Parents

https://cmascanada.ca//wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Parenting_Resource_Kit1-2.pdf

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Today’s Parent

Today's Parent magazine is about helping parents build happy, healthy families. Speaking to families of children from birth to 14, articles tackle the complete range of parenting issues, including health, education and behaviour. Todaysparent.com provides:

• a library of information on all of the ages and stages of a growing family,
• fun tools and features,
• Pregnancy & Birth,
• Newborn,
• Baby & Toddler
• and their French–language counterparts.