Parenting Help
We all need help from time to time with our little ones, from the day they are born until the time they are safely, finally all grown up. This page provides links to resources available to us in the Bay Area and over the internet.
 
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Breast Feeding

It's undeniably the best thing you can do for your baby, but it can be hard to figure out at first and sometimes it's just not possible. Help is at hand whatever your situation:

 

Child Safety

There's never an end to the things to worry about when it comes to your child's safety. But, luckily, there are also many solutions and helpful organizations available to help us out with recall information, help with car seats, instructions on how to baby proof your house and other vital information:

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Child Care

We all need child care sooner or later, whether it's a full-time, live-in nanny, or just occasional help so we can get out on our own to run errands or have some fun. Here are some links to web sites with useful information and the capability of doing local searches on this somewhat daunting quest:

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Schools

Before you know it, your babies will be ready to head out the door for their first day of school. Stock up in advance on tissues! In the meantime, you can follow this good advice from one of our members, who is herself a teacher, and spend some time checking out the Redwood City School District's or Belmont-Redwood Shores School District's web sites.

  • Visit our local schools to see education in progress and meet your child's potential new teacher.
  • Ask to speak to parents of students to hear a first-hand report.
  • Offer to volunteer as a reader or other helper and get a very personal look at our local schools.
  • Attend a PTA meeting; call the school of interest to find out dates. It is often here that you find out about the goals of the schools, the priorities they are setting and the challenges they face

 

Discipline

This handout is published with permission from Parents Place of Palo Alto and San Mateo:

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Local Resources

Don't forget to check the City of Redwood City's Family Resources site for a comprehensive list of local resources for parents.

Other helpful sites:

 

Parenting on the Web

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of web sites devoted to babies and parenting. Just to get you started, here are a few suggestions:

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Parenting Publications

A few useful local publications are Bay Area Parent, Bay Area Baby (http://sanfrancisco.parenthood.com/), and Parenting on the Peninsula (http://www.ponthep.com) which are available free in most child-oriented businesses and the libraries.

 

Post Partum Depression

There are multiple sources of information and services available to sufferers of Post Partum Depression (PPD).  Here are a few:
Please let us know if any of these links are out of date or if you have other suggestions to add.

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These sites are suggested only as recommendations and not as endorsements by the Redwood City Mothers Club.
   

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