For Parents

Brighton Library

• Policies
  • Internet Use
  • Supervision of Children
  • Rules of Conduct
  • Children's Garden Use
  • Storytime Policy
• Resources
  • Learning Link
  • Homework Links
  • Reference Links

American Library Association

• ALA Homepage for Parents and Caregivers
• ALA's Lists of Award Winning Books
• ALA Recommended Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids (list of great sites and recommended reading)
• Information on the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
• Librarian's Guide to CyberSpace for Parent's & Kids from the American Library Association has safety tips, Q & A for kids, selected sites, and assistance and information for parents.
• Parents' Guide to the Information Superhighway
  Thorough introduction to computers and the Internet and tips on how to introduce computers and guide their use by children from age two through eighteen. Also included are rules for safe use of the Internet and netiquette.

Other Sites of Interest

• Accelerated Reading List - Brighton Area Schools, Malby Middle School - lists 2500 titles on the Accelerated Reading list.
• Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• Familyeducation.com - Good resource for parents of children from preschool through high school. News and info about education policy. Advice from experts including teachers, administrators, and learning experts.
• Kids Health - Has teen and kid health-related issues with latest toy and children's product recalls.
• Kids in Mind - Parents can locate past or current movie and video reviews, which are listed according to three numerical "grades": sex and nudity, violence, and profanity.
• Michigan's Great Parents, Great Start - Resource for information on programs, services, and supports for all children from birth to age five throughout Michigan.
• Michigan Learning - has Michigan education-related news, polls, resources, a magazine for parents and various contests.
• Momsonline.com - Chat rooms open 24 hours a day. Active message boards to discuss anything from diapers to driver's licenses. A weekly Ma'zine with essays and advice and Daily Dish with an easy recipe every day
• Museumspot.com - Has standard museums but also has oddballs like the Macaroni and Cheese Gallery. Can search for museums by country, state, city, museum name and artist.
• National Parent Information Network
  Sponsored by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, this site "provides information to parents and those who work with parents and to foster the exchange of parenting materials." There are full text articles, a parenting discussion list, "Parents AskERIC" question answering service and much more.
• Parentsoup.com - Busy chat rooms hosted by pediatrics, child-development experts and others. Articles by experts in health, education, discipline. Directories of child-related resources.
• Screen It - Reviews of current movies, recent videos, DVDs and music CDs. Each review makes it clear why a film or DC got the rating it did.
• S&P School Evaluation Services - Excellent for stats and comparisons on school districts all over the U.S., including Brighton.
• TotCity.com-Project Finder - Search for toddler activity, or a preschool craft project by keyword or ingredient. Alternatively, search the 13 categories for something that kids can do at home or in the library.