http://www.search-institute.org/assets/assetlists.html
- The Search Institute's Asset Lists

http://www.connectforkids.org/
- Connect for Kids

www.soundpartners.org
   - Sound Partners for Community Health

www.theparentreport.com
-The Parent Report site features a daily parenting radio show and offers information on a range of topics for parents of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Kids/index.cfm
   - Native American Kids health

www.kidshealth.org
- KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.

www.healthy-start.com
   - Healthy Start

www.aphafoodandnutrition.org/overwt.html
   - American Public Health association-childhood overweight

www.keepkidshealthy.com
   - Designed as 'a Pediatrician's guide to your children's health and safety’

www.mich.healthology.com
   - Michigan Health

www.healthwise.org
   - Healthwise, Incorporated

www.eatright.org
   - American Dietetic Association

www.pbs.org
www.pbskids.org
   - PBS-Public television

www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/Preschoolers.html
   - KidSource preschoolers page

www.pbs.org/teachersource/health_fitness/
preschool_fitness.shtm
   - Articles and ideas for preschool fitness, food and nutrition at PBS.org

www.naaso.org
   - North American Association for the Study of Obesity

www.healthypeople.gov
   - Healthy people 2010 goals

www.dole5aday.com
   - Dole Food Company

ific.org
   - The International Food Information Council Foundation.

www.mpamich.com
   - Michigan Provider's Alliance

 

Your Baby and Child From Birth to Age 5
Author/Editor: P. Leach
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 1997

This excellent book discusses the many aspects of the physical and mental development of children. The author's reassuring approach stresses responding to your baby or child's needs rather than following rigid patterns of care. While the book has only two pages on colic, it has a good chart on crying behavior in babies who have colic and babies who do not have colic.


Your Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Childhood Development from Birth to Preadolescence
Author/Editor: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, D. Pruitt (editor)
Publisher: Harper reference
Publication Date: 1998

This book presents information on normal growth and develop from infancy through the school-aged years. It also provides information on common concerns during these developmental periods, including when to seek help.


American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition: Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life
Author/Editor: W. H. Dietz, L. Stern
Publisher: Villard Books
Publication Date: 1999

The American Academy of Pediatrics provides this practical, balanced review of current thinking on child development as it relates to eating and nutrition for children. Its style is reassuring, narrative, and easy to read. It provides commonsense charts, guidelines, and suggestions, and has information for vegetarian families as well. It covers all aspects of feeding children, from breast-feeding and formula for infants, to establishing healthy attitudes toward food in early childhood, to helping prevent eating disorders in adolescents.


Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5
Author/Editor: S.P. Shelov, MD (Editor)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Publication Date: 1998

This book is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics. It includes such topics as basic care from infancy through age 5; a complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, congenital diseases, and other disabilities; safety checks for home, outdoors, and car; a guide for choosing child care programs; a discussion of family issues from sibling rivalry and adoption to stepfamilies and working mothers; and more.

The Wonder of It: Exploring How the World Works
Author: Bonnie Neugebauer

This book is a guide to teaching the excitement of scientific pursuit to young children. One chapter in particular focuses on cooking with preschoolers. The author provides tips and guidelines for spending time in the kitchen with young children!


Grandpa’s Garden Lunch. Judith Casley. New York: Greenwillow, 1990.

Pancakes Pancakes. Eric Carle.

Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables A to Z. Lois Ehlert. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Chicken Soup with Rice. Maurice Sendak.

Feast for 10. Cathryn Falwell. New York: Clarion, 1993.

The Beastly Feast. Bruce Goldstone. New York: Holt, 1998.

Pretend Soup and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and up. Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson. Berkeley: Tricycle Press, 1994.

Vegetable Soup. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

Potluck. Anne Shelby. New York: Orchard, 1991.

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food. Stan and Jan Berenstain.

Growing Vegetable Soup. Lois Ehlert. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Eric Carle.

Jamberries. Bruce Degen.

Bread and Jam for Francis. Robert Hoban.

One Hungry Monster. Susan Heyboer O’Keefe.

Pierrot’s ABC Garden. Anita Lobel.

Bread, Bread, Bread. Jeanne Modesitt. New York: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1989.

Alexander and the Great Food Fight. Linda J. Hawkins.

Pickin’ Peas. Margaret R. McDonald.

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato. Lauren Child.

The Ugly Vegetables. Grace Lin.

This Year’s Garden. Cynthia Rylert

Pumpkin Pumpkin. Jeanne Titherington.

The Carrot Seed. Ruth Krauss.

This is the Bread I Baked for Ned. Crescent Dragonwagon.

The Pea Patch Jig. Thacher Hurd.

Apples and Pumpkins. Anne Rockwell.

What a Good Lunch! Shigeo Watanabe

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Childhood Obestiy Thurs, June 19, 2003
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FRONTLINE - Fat!
In "Fat," FRONTLINE travels the globe in search of the causes of the obesity crisis, examining how media and cultural ideals, as well as biology and genetics, influence our relationship with food.
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