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Parenting Education Programs

Early Years: Birth through Five

  • Principles of Parenting
  • ABC's of Young Children
  • Family Storyteller - "Reading with Children"
  • Children in the Middle

School Age

  • Going to School
  • Principles of Parenting

General Parenting

The Master Family Life Education Volunteer

Intergenerational Programs

Focus is on connecting the generations through programs such as:

  • Grandletters
  • Making Memories

Family Life Programs

Focus is on family life issues:

  • Building Family Strengths 
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Publications

Publication Number: IS1697
Publication Number: P3599
Publication Number: P3899
Publication Number: P3901

News

Filed Under: Family, Children and Parenting, MSU Extension Head Start, Nurturing Homes Initiative, Mississippi LIFT Resource and Referral Network February 17, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The Mississippi State University Extension Service has a new leader at the helm of its programs aimed at early childhood education. Jamila Taylor was named executive director of Early Childhood Extension Programs in the MSU School of Human Sciences Feb. 16.

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Filed Under: Family, Children and Parenting, Nurturing Homes Initiative January 31, 2025

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Yahala Devine has been an in-home childcare provider in Mendenhall for two and a half years, but her career trajectory changed when she joined the Nurturing Homes Initiative, or NHI, program. The NHI program is dedicated to enhancing the quality of early education experiences in family childcare homes. By offering resources, training and support, NHI equips providers with the tools they need to improve child development outcomes and advance their own careers.

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Filed Under: Family, Children and Parenting December 13, 2024

Do you know what technoference is? Chances are you’ve experienced it, whether you are familiar with the term or not.

Success Stories

A smiling young man astride a horse and wearing a helmet.
Volume 10 Number 3

When 10-year-old Hasib of Starkville trots his horse during therapeutic riding, he experiences a lingering calmness that his mother attributes to the experience he shares with his horse.

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Volume 10 Number 3

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/meet-the-ninth-grader-whos-helping-restore-mississippis-oyster-reefsMedia Chronicles Demi’s SuccessDemi Johnson is just 15 years old, but she is already impacting her community through 4-H and Girl Scouts.

A mother embraces her son in a school hallway.
Volume 10 Number 2

When Kash Barnett started preschool, his vocabulary consisted of just five words.

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Portrait of Ms. Jamila B Taylor
Executive Director