One in 74.9 Million

This year there are an estimated 74.9 million kids living in the United States. That’s over 25 million asking to barrow the keys to their parent’s car for the first time, 25 million signing along with Dora the Explorer, and another 25 million packing their shorts and cooing at the air.

There are a lot of us parents, with children of all design. I’m not sure about you, but I don’t spend my time knee deep in pamphlets, books, and articles trying to find the keys to parenthood. I’m spending it stumbling through each day just fumbling with the basics; eat, poop, sleep, & play. (My little one is still packs his shorts)

With what seems like an endless amount of detail and opinion converging from every angle, it makes finding clear and helpful information tricky at times. Here are a few online resources that I’ve found useful:

• United States Government – Parenting Resource This site provides official information and services from the U.S. government. It offers links to online resources like the U.S. Department of Human Health and Services.  It covers important topics like adoption, education, parental health concerns, crime prevention and nutrition.
• Family Education.com This is a comprehensive tool. While it does cover an overwhelming amount of information, it organizes it in a really convenient manner. You can search by age and find any thing from a toddler toy recall to tips on high school graduation.
• Parenthood.com The most helpful piece of this online resource is its catalogue of articles. They have efficiently organized hundreds of articles on popular parenting topics. Most of the article are brief and to the point.
• Mayoclinic.com There are so many medical resources online. While these resources can never take the place of a trained professional, it is helpful to have well-organized, accurate information at your fingertips. There are many to choose from, but I have found this site to be the easiest to use and also very credible.

As a new parent, I am finding that time is absolutely the scarcest of resources. I will probably never consider much of the information presented by these sites. However it is comforting to know,  information about many of my specific questions rests on the pages of these collections and it’s only a click away.

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