Join Cubby’s Kids Club (CKC) to celebrate Earth Day on April 18 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at Hess Greenhouses beside the Shenandoah Heritage Farmer’s Market on Route 11 in Harrisonburg.

Be Local: Food from Home, the 2010 CKC Earth Day event, will focus on local gardening, THE GREENS series from PBS KIDS GO! and planting your own starter seeds.

This event is FREE for Cubby's Kids Club members. Guests may pay $5 with registration. Click here for the registration form. Registration forms are due by April 5.

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Sesame Workshop has created resources to help families prepare for emergencies. “Let’s Get Ready” provides parents and caregivers tools for explaining emergencies to children, steps in creating a family emergency plan, ways to help children learn and practice their essential personal information, and Emergency Plan Kit resources for families.

Click here for the Let's Get Ready website.

Included are recommendations by Kids and Cars to help prevent the tragedies and the new report issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regarding the data they released specific to non-traffic incidents. Please help spread the message about how these tragedies can be prevented.

As we are quickly approaching the holiday season, have you ever found yourself in a car with squabbling children? Here are some quick, easy games for children of all ages to make the trip more enjoyable for everyone. Check out the PBS Parent website.

Learn strategies and tips to help the child who struggles with school. See the sections on how to support your child through “communicating with your child, creating good practices, collaborating with teachers, advocating for your child, and ten tips for students”. Find resources such as books, articles, websites, multimedia, and videos. Read experts' answers to frequently asked questions about learning disabilities.

www.pbs.org/parents/strugglingtolearn/index.html

Look for other parenting ideas from www.pbs.org/parents.