ParentPartners.com Launches

Posted on November 24, 1998

ParentPartners has launched an Internet-based service designed to help parents and other family members better understand their child and better participate in their learning, growth and development.

Don Burton, ParentPartners Founder and President, explains that he wants "to make it easy for parents to get new levels of personal attention and support from the world's best sources. Every child is unique and ParentPartners centers on individual children, helping parents to better understand and to better participate in each child's unique learning, growth and development."

The ParentPartners website takes advantage of the Internet's interactive features to highly personalize information, advice and services parents need to actively participate in their children's learning process. The personal information products are based on research commissioned by ParentPartners and developed by researchers at the Brazelton Center, Columbia University, Umass at Amherst, and Harvard Project Zero. The research categorizes early childhood development in the first five years into ages and stages in six distinct categories - - emotional; social; logic; language; visual and spatial; and movement. Parents can input information about their child and will receive back reports about where their child is in their development.