General Behavior of Newborns and Infants - Free Parenting Help

How to encourage positive behavior, tips for using "time out" and stopping misbehavior.

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HandInHand.org offers free parenting podcasts on topics such as bonding with your new baby, support for new dads, recovering from a difficult birth, and helping your baby with colic.  The site also has a number of parenting articles that focus on developing a stronger emotional connection with you child and developing a better family life as a result.

Developed by the US Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Health and Human Services, these twelve booklets walk you through baby’s first year of life.  They include feeding tips, checkup information, stages of development, ways you can keep baby safe, and much more.  Also available in Spanish.

How a newborn sleeps, why they cry, their reflexes, and how they breathe, see, and hear.

The differences in behavior between newborns, what to expect in the first hours and days, facts about newborns, how a newborn protects him/herself, a newborn’s senses, and how to deal with a sick or crying newborn.

Parenting and Child Development Fact Sheets & Bulletins with titles such as “Parenting the First Year,” and “Tackling the Bullying Issue.” All sheets are also available in Spanish.