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You know there’s nothing more important than raising a child. However, being a parent is not an easy job. Babies don't come with instruction books and often a lack of family, school or community support means you're seeking parenting help all on your own.

The Learning Community (TLC) is here to make getting the parenting help you need easy. We provide you with free parenting resources such as Tips for Parents, parenting videos and hundreds of links to really useful parenting websites. There is no charge to access our giant parenting resource library. Getting started is as easy as clicking one of the links below:

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PARENT POWER BLOG

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Join The Learning Community's Parent Power Blog and share funny parenting experiences, get timely parenting resources, and learn tips for raising kids to be happy, healthy and successful. That's parenting TLC style--with Parent Power.
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Atom Power
9/3/2010 11:29:00 AM Parent Power Blog
I remembered our philosophy here at TLC, of seizing teachable moments, and got out paper and pencil, dug waaaaaay back into a high school physics lesson, and was somehow able to give him a passable, albeit very basic, explanation of nuclear physics. About halfway through me drawing electrons shooting out of their orbits, he started getting glassy-eyed, but I brought him back in when I compared a basically nonradioactive element, gold (his favorite metal), to uranium. More...

Greedy Little Buggers or Run of the Mill Gimmees?
8/31/2010 12:24:00 PM Parent Power Blog
Note the fists balled up tightly and clutched to her chest, as if she already has a new gift in her possession and I am attempting to wrestle it away from her. Her eyes are large, pupils dialiated, because she anticipates she will have to physically defend her yet-to-be-received presents. More...

No Gravity
8/30/2010 4:10:00 PM Parent Power Blog
All that time sitting there, not catching any fish, was a great excuse to shoot the breeze. At one point, Logan asked me, "If there was no gravity, all the water and fish from the lake would just be floating around, right?" I had an Inception moment and imagined blobs of silvery water (for some reason, they resembled mercury) floating in the air, with fish randomly paddling by, and us just picking them out of the air. More...

Tips for Parents: Is My Baby Developing Normally?

Most parents, at some point, wonder if their infant is healthy and developing normally compared to other babies their age. There’s a wide range of normal when it comes to how babies grow and develop motor skills, speech skills, and social skills. One baby will walk at 9 months, another might not take a first step until 17 months—both would be considered completely normal. These Tips for Parents will help you understand what’s normal and what to do if you suspect your infant is delayed.
Tips for Parents: Is My Baby Developing Normally?
Mayo Clinic’s Infant Development: Birth to 3 Months
Mayo Clinic’s Infant Development: What Happens from 4 to 6 Months?
March of Dimes Developmental Milestones for Babies
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Developmental Milestones

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