Child Development and Growth

The MSU Extension Service offers publications, workshops, articles, and helpful tips for parents, grandparents, guardians, and childcare providers.

These courses are ideal for court requirements, legal requirements, improving personal skills, and growing as a parent. Learning effective parenting skills will not only improve your relationships with your children and co-parent(s), but also reinforce appropriate behavior in others.

We help integrate reading into pediatric practices, advise families about the importance of reading with their children, and share books that serve as a catalyst for healthy childhood development.
Resources to add to your activities at home
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Daily activities parents can do with their children to build their preschool skills.

Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! is a coordinated federal effort to encourage healthy child development, universal developmental and behavioral screening for children, and support for the families and providers who care for them.