Parent & Caregiver

Tips for Parents:
  • Digital Stories for Remote Learners
    Looking for video versions of popular stories to encourage students to engage with stories in a new way? In this blog entry, explore several sources of multimedia, digital tales for remote learners.
  • Five Before Five (5B45)
    It’s critical to engage interactively with children while their brains are young and flexible. During children's earliest years, their brain makes 1 million neural connections every single second. That’s why we created 5 Before 5, a collaborative effort to help Utah families Love, Talk, Read, Count, and Play more with their kids before they turn 5 years old.
  • Envision Utah + Vroom
    Envision Utah has partnered with Vroom. Vroom has over 1,000 science-backed, age-appropriate tips to turn any moment into a brain building moment! Your child loves to learn from you. Download the free Vroom app to see how fun and easy Vroom tips can be! in early brain development.
  • Building a Home Library Ages 4-7
    The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee, with cooperation from the ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee, has created this bibliography to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home.
  • Developmental Screenings
    Knowing the developmental milestones children go through makes parenting easier. Knowing is as easy as doing a free developmental screening.
  • Ages and Stages Questionnaire
    Complete the ASQ online or on paper and a Help Me Grow team member will contact you with the results, help answer your questions, and connect you to community resources.
  • Children’s Service Society Home Visitation
    Home Visitation reaches families in their homes to help parents overcome challenges involved with parenting and help children reach their full potential.
  • Just In Time Parenting eNewsletters
    Parents can sign up for a monthly email that helps them track their child's progress and ensure that they are receiving proper care and development opportunities.
  • Caring About Childcare
    Provides families looking for child care with profiles of childcare providers located throughout Utah.
  • A Place of Our Own
    These two companion resources offer online resources for early childhood educators and parents. The Web sites provide activities appropriate for toddlers to preschoolers and range in topic from Health & Safety to Language & Literacy to Science & Environment and more. (en Español)
  • DadCanDo.com
    Advice and best tips on how dads can make the most of the time they spend with their kids.
  • Wonderopolis
    Check out the "Wonder of the Day" - simple activities for parents to share and explore the wonders of everyday life with children.
  • BabyWatch - Early Intervention Services
    Baby Watch Early Intervention is a statewide program which provides services to infants and toddlers, birth to three, with developmental delay or disability, and their families.
  • Additional Parent and Cargiver Resouces
    Visit the UEN Parent and Caregiver Resouces page.

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