First Teacher is a program of Parenting Matters Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping parents in their most important job as their child’s First Teacher. We provide parent education materials (monthly newsletter and developmental cards) for parents of preschool children from pregnancy to pre-kindergarten.

Parenting Matters Foundation is here to help parents do an excellent job of raising their children. We want to encourage them to be involved parents because their job is such an important one. Children who enter school ready to learn have a huge head start over children who aren’t ready.

Parenting Matters directly serves families of children. In addition, we also serve professionals who are working with families and provide a resource for service providers to share with their families.
With offices in Washington State, we are able to provide parenting information anywhere one resides or works, either through postal, electronic delivery or through our website.

Children do not come with instruction manuals when they are born. Parents want and need help in raising happy, healthy children. And parents are busy and need information that is reliable, brief, and helpful. There are a large number of parenting books and websites that have great information and resources, but often they are challenging to access or time consuming to navigate. While we know that much of the child’s brain is developing in the first years of a child’s life it continues to develop.