Communicating With and Involving Families in Day Care

Parent Teachers Association (PTA)
http://www.pta.org/
PTA promotes cooperation between school, parents, teachers and the child. There are local chapters of PTA in each state and community. Additionally, PTA provides opportunities and educational resources to children and their schools.

Communicating With Parents
http://www.nncc.org/Families/com.parent.html
The National Network for Child Care offers an article on why it is important to communicate with parents, and how a bad relationship between parent and teacher can affect the child.

Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner: Teachers Page
http://users.stargate.net/~cokids/teacher.html
The Teachers Page has a list of topics that might be of interest to early childhood education and day care providers. The list includes links to other websites and articles.

Involving Parents in Early Childhood Programs
http://www.schoolfile.com/cap_start/earlychild.htm
The article found on this web page explains how and why it is important to involve parents in early childhood education and day care.

Parent Involvement in Decision-Making
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/PDFs/spot23.pdf
The article discusses the Smart Start Early Childhood Initiative in North Carolina and how parents are involved in the budget decision making and if this initiative is really working or not.

Updated 10/2009