Parenting Guides
Early Learning Foundations
Continue supporting your child’s learning and development at home with these trusted, research-based resources.
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Learning Through Play
Practical ideas from NAEYC for supporting learning through meaningful play. -
Serve and Return Interactions
Learn how responsive, back-and-forth interactions help build a strong foundation for development. -
Fun and Learning Activities
Simple activities for families to enjoy at home, outdoors, and during everyday routines. -
Positive Parenting Tips for Ages 3–5
Age-appropriate guidance for supporting learning, independence, behavior, and healthy development.
Language Development
Simple strategies to strengthen your child’s vocabulary, listening, storytelling, and communication skills through everyday conversations and shared reading.
Featured Resources
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Language Development: Preschool — Head Start
Learn how preschool children develop listening, understanding, speaking, vocabulary, and conversation skills. -
Language and Literacy — Head Start
Explore practical strategies that support early language, communication, reading, and writing development, including guidance for children learning more than one language. -
Developmental Milestones — CDC
Review age-based milestones related to how young children communicate, learn, play, behave, and move. -
Dialogic Reading — Reading Rockets
Learn how to turn story time into an interactive conversation that builds vocabulary, verbal fluency, comprehension, and storytelling skills.
Emotional Intelligence
Help your child recognize emotions, express feelings appropriately, build empathy, and develop healthy strategies for managing strong emotions.
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Building Social and Emotional Skills at Home
Discover practical activities families can use to teach feeling words, discuss social challenges, and help children practice problem-solving through play. -
Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children
Learn why naming emotions is important and how adults can help children build a vocabulary for feelings such as happy, worried, frustrated, disappointed, and excited. -
Social and Emotional Learning
Explore resources on responsive relationships, predictable routines, emotional regulation, friendship skills, and problem-solving for children from birth through age five. -
Strategies for Supporting Self-Regulation
Learn how self-regulation develops and review practical strategies for helping preschool-aged children manage emotions, behavior, attention, and actions. -
Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers
Find practical guidance and videos about noticing and naming emotions, positive communication, predictable routines, behavior guidance, and strengthening parent-child relationships. -
A Guide to Executive Function
Learn how children gradually develop self-regulation skills that help them manage information, control impulses, make decisions, and plan their actions.
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