The internet has a wealth of resources to help us keep our kids safe and healthy, but locating the best resources can take more time than most parents have to spend.  Below is a sampling of the best of the Internet on children's health and safety topics for parents of children from newborn to teenage.

For Parents:

• American Academy of Pediatrics: This award winning website provides a wide range of helpful information for parents.  The site is updated daily with the latest on children's health and safety. 
• National Library of Medicine: Reliable medical information for everyone.
• Kidsgrowth: Gives parents information on behavior, development, and pediatric health conditions, and offers advice on dealing with specific symptoms.
• Kidshealth:  A safe place for kids to find out more about their bodies and feelings.  Parents can find accurate information on issues ranging from child diet and nutrition to immunization.

• ADD: The site of the National Attention Deficit Disorder Association, includes a bookstore, information on attention deficit disorders, and current legal issues relating to ADHD.
• CHADD: the site for Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, consists of news and fact sheets on attention deficit disorders, as well as a CHADD chapter locator, membership and legislative information, selected articles from CHADD's magazine Attention!, and links to related sites.
• American Dietetic Association: Your link to nutrition and health

• Family Planet:  A family-related site that is updated daily with the latest headlines, ideas and advice from the world of parenting and family issues.

For Children:

• Exploratorium:  Puzzles, games and experiments.
• Teengrowth: Features a large database of health information. Topics include safe sex, gangs, smoking, and other health and behavior issues.
• KidsHealth:  A colorful and multifaceted site with a section just for kids!  Provides a safe place for kids to find more about their bodies and feelings.
• My Virtual Reference Desk:  Dozens of links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials.
• VERB  communicates ideas for fun physical activities via television, radio, print, and the Internet as well as out-of -home outlets such as  theaters, billboards, and schools.
• BAM! answers kids questions on health issues and recommends ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer.

Health and Medical Sites:

• Children's Clinic Medem Web Site: Features dozens of pediatric articles from the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Check this new site out!
• The Childhood Immunization Support Program at the American Academy of Pediatrics: Up-to-date immunization schedule, fact sheets and resources for parents, interactive flash games
• CDC's National Immunization Program website: immunization information.
• Food and Nutrition:  Topics from A to Z on nutrition for all ages and health needs.
• Learning Disabilities: Site for the Learning Disabilities Association of America, features news, announcements of public events, fact sheets, and a bookstore, as well as a link to upcoming regional and local LDA conferences.

• Schwab Learning:  Information and tools to guide parents though the Learning Disablilies and ADHD journey 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• Reading:   Pediatricians encourage parents to read aloud to their young children.   Reading aloud is the most important thing parents can do to help their children love books and to start school ready to learn.  Reach Out and Read is a program currently practiced at the Children's Clinic.
• Safe Kids (Internet safety): Your family's guide to making the Internet and technology
  fun, safe and productive.
• Safe Kids (physical safety)Founded in 1987, the National Safe Kids Campaign teaches strategies to keep your children out of harms way.  Parents and children can find out more about everything from bike and water safety to poison prevention.
• Consumer Product Safety Commission:  Current list of recalled products.
• National Institutes of Health:  Extensive information on preventing, detecting, diagnosing and treating disease and disability.
• National Organization for Rare Disorders:  Dedicated to helping people with rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them.
• Louisiana Poison Control Center: Safety measures to take, toll free hot line.