Birmingham Parent’s Little Learners Directory 2018

Learn how providing extracurricular activities for your preschooler can encourage their natural curiosity and love of learning.

“Don’t leave me! NO! Please! Mommy! Mommy, don’t go!” Sound familiar? Separation anxiety is a normal part of child development. Here are some tips to help alleviate your child’s anxiety.

K – 12 students across the state can engage with online reading and learning activities all summer long!

Rachel Ashcraft, an occupational therapist with Child Play Therapy in Birmingham, specializes in childhood trauma triggers.

Today’s Teens and the Long, Slow Road to Adulthood.

Originally scheduled for April, this Jory’s Journey event will be the first Autism Walk to be held in Birmingham that is focused on the underserved families in the Birmingham area who are impacted by autism.

The governor and over 50 Alabama mayors proclaim April 22 – 28, 2018 as Parental Alienation Prevention Week and April 25, 2018 as Parental Alienation Awareness “Bubbles for Love” Day.

The Rivera family lived in a cozy three-bedroom home. But cozy became cramped when they adopted four children within two years. “We had gone from three to seven people under one roof,” recalls their mother Nancy. So the Riveras moved to a larger home about an hour away. 

Tips for parents to help children when transitioning to a new school.

Here are 12 tips parents can use to help children deal with moving.

Check out the new Baby & Me Directory for 2018 – Great Shops & Services When You Need Them for You and Your New Bundle of Joy!

Students from Primrose School at Liberty Park donate 312 books to Jessie’s Place on Read Across America Day.

Camp Caglewood provides adventures for those with disabilities.

Birmingham Parent’s 2018 Summer Camp Directory including Day Camps, Overnight Camps, and Things for Camping.

Birmingham Parent’s 2018 Summer Camp Directory including Day Camps, Overnight Camps, and Things for Camping.

The arts improve children’s social skills, education, and creativity. Growing up, dance was always part of my life. From ages 3 to 19, I was dancing. Dance gave me an outlet for my energy and emotions. It also taught me discipline, patience, and more things about myself than I could ever list. It led me to study dance in college and to pursue a professional career. All forms of art influence children and help shape them as they grow.

Simple kindness is on the verge of becoming a lost art in our society and yet, there are still those who remind us what a big difference a small kindness can make. Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed by all that needs doing in the world and become paralyzed, doing nothing instead of doing what we can and making a real difference.

It can be difficult for parents to know exactly when to start teaching their children how to identify colors and numbers or when to start reading to them. However, the earlier parents begin reading to their kids, the better prepared they will be when entering kindergarten.

A new Easterseals clinic will provide the organization’s great special needs services closer to families in east-central Alabama when it opens it’s new Springville office later this month in St. Clair County.