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Welcome to PBS Parents!

Here you'll find information about your child's development from birth through the early school years. And you'll find lots of fun educational activities for your children to help get them ready for school. Our PBS Parents Guides address important aspects of your child's early years such as school readiness and social and emotional development. You can also find information about your children's favorite PBS KIDS programs: schedules for your local area, educational activities related to the programs, explanations of educational goals and even help throwing a PBS KIDS birthday party!

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  • Issues and Advice brings together valuable content from our Expert Q & A, tips for parents from TeacherSource, a robust Bookfinder tool, and articles on subjects of concern to parents today.
  • Fun and Games offers a robust tool for parents to find enjoyable, age-appropriate and educational activities for their children from PBS KIDS as well as Parent Helpers for fresh ideas on keeping children active and engaged.
  • TV Programs takes you into the world of PBS KIDS programming from the parent's point of view. Find out everything about your children's favorite programs, from their educational goals to what times they're on in your area. Also, here you'll be alerted to upcoming primetime programs of interest to parents or that make good family viewing.
  • My PBS Parents is where you can manage your custom settings to get the most out of PBS Parents. Designate your local station, choose favorite shows and sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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The PBS Parents Guides offer age-specific help on a variety of parenting topics, from supporting your child in school and communicating with kids to nurturing early skills in such areas as math and literacy and putting on an age-appropriate PBS KIDS birthday party.

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Create a login to let PBS Parents serve up custom content for you and your family. You'll also be able to sign up for the weekly PBS Parents e-newsletter.

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A Spanish-language version of this Site Guide is available for people who want to read about the site and get Internet basics in Spanish.

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When you create a login for PBS Parents, you'll have access to your local PBS station's primetime schedule on the homepage as well as What's On schedules on the TV Programs page

Favorite Programs

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When you've created a login and told us your favorite PBS KIDS shows, we'll tell you when they're next on, which episode is showing and give you a related activity.

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