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20ish Parents - 20ish Parents was created to fill the void left by many parenting sources when it comes to addressing the issues relevant to the Generation X set. This generation faces many unique and interesting challenges when it comes to raising children. 20ish Parents strives to be a place for every family to find support.
A Moms Love: All the resources you need - A Moms Love is a monthly online magazine full of insightful articles. A Moms Love supports all moms with pages for stay at home, work at home, single and working moms. A Mom's Love~ represents our true appreciation of motherhood and our respect for every woman as she experiences the joys and challenges of raising children.
Berit's Best Sites for Children - Over 1,151 sites are reviewed by librarian Berit, who rates them on a five-point scale. Check out anything that got a five out of five and you'll find a real gem of a Web site. Arranged in general categories such as Holidays, Just for Fun, and Serious Stuff, you'll also discover sites to help you find a pen pal or a safe chat room. This site is part of the popular 'Theodore Tugboat' home page, which has a separate review in the TELEVISION--PROGRAMS section of this book.
Bilingual Families Web Page - If you live in a family where more than one language is spoken, your kids are so lucky! They are growing up with an advantage many kids don't have. Other kids may have to study for years in order to approach your kids' knowledge of another language. This resource is for families who want to network with other multilingual families and share what works best for them. Some of the best suggestions are collected at this site, including links to everything from children's folk songs to language summer camps.
BlueSuitMom.com - BlueSuitMom.com is the premiere Web site for executive working mothers. They aim to help you find work and family balance.
Canadian Parents Online - Here is a good place for parents to help each other in a comfortable, community atmosphere in which to connect and communicate about diverse issues, such as stepparenting, foster parenting, or raising special-needs children. Be sure to check out the Library for monthly feature articles or ask one of the resident experts questions about nutrition, family finances, or child rearing.
Childslife.com - Childslife.com is The Local Resource For Parents Nationwide, which includes Child and Parent Resources, Calendar of Events, a Weekly Newsletter, Playgroup listings and Fun Places to Go.
ClubMom - The Mom-to-Mom and expert advice you need - parenting, health, food, finance, careers and more.
Dads and Daughters - DADs provides tools to strengthen the relationships with their daughters. One of their primary missions is to combat the pervasive messages that value girls more for how they look than who they are, one daughter at a time.
Families of America - This website offers information, news and ideas for families to use, whether you are following the current news headlines or looking for an activity to do with your family, Families of America is a great resource to find the information you need.
Family Money - Articles abound on this website. Learn what your kids can do for extra cash, how to teach your children to be a smart consumer, and all you ever wanted to know about allowances. But Kid's money isn't the only topic here-- anything and everything that has to do with family finances is covered.
Family Resources Network - Resources to help families in the many aspects of their daily lives including marriage, parenting, financial matters, spiritual growth, product recalls, missing kids database, headline news, family-safe chat rooms, family entertainment, and more!
Family Wonder - This site offeres tons of activities for your family to do, as well as reviews on movies, television shows, kid websites, toys and more. This site also allows parents to add to the activites that are suggested. There are also contest the kids can enter, and also a large online store featuring toys, videos, music and other entertaining products.
FamilyTime - FamilyTime provides you with online household organization, menu planning, and money-saving applications, as well as advice from home organization and cooking experts on how you can best run your household. Wondering what to make for dinner this week? Browse the recipes and schedule your favorites into your menu planner. FamilyTime also has a color-coded family calendar to keep track of your family's activities; an address book to centralize contacts for easy access; and a household records filing system that provides you with what you need to know when something breaks down. The practical, online applications are easy to use and fully integrated, so you can do all your household planning in one fell swoop from home or work.
From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal - Internet use policies. Assessment. Libraries of the future. Grants. Parenting. This site tackles all those topics and more. It is a vast collection of feature articles, Web sites, and other resources for the home, classroom, and community. Learn how to cut out the "mind kandy" and the "new plagiarism" of indiscriminate cut and paste. Jamie McKenzie tells it like it is. Don't waste any more time without visiting his site.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - The links in this guide are organized according to subject area. In History, for instance, you'll get a breakdown of Web pages, from "American History" to "World History." Each month, a list of new resources will point you to the latest and greatest.
KidSource OnLine - Wasn't that toy recalled? Find out here! Families, be sure to check out this outstanding parenting site. The reviews of kid-tested software are written from a family perspective, with both negative and positive comments. The Education section includes articles and book lists and, best of all, annotated links and more links! The Health section has everything from vaccination schedules to growth charts, and the ComputingEDGE is a way to match needy schools with computer equipment. We highly recommend this site for annotated pointers to sites about dealing with angry kids, raising only children, and figuring out such things as alternative assessment in education.
Lycos Zone - The Lycos FunZone selections for kids are arranged in three big areas: Fun and Games, Homework, and everyone¹s favorite, New and Cool, where you can check out the Game of the Week as well as the Cool Site of the Week. There is also a section called Parents and Teachers, which includes discussion boards. Still want more? The main Lycos kid's directory is here, where you'll be able to explore thousands of fabulous sites in 26 different subject areas.
Main Street Mom--The Magazine for Modern Mothers with Traditional Values - The magazine for modern mothers with traditional values. You'll find articles, discussion forums, free newsletters, nifty tools, and even free e-greeting cards.
Moms Online - A virtual community of mothers working collaboratively to create a friendly site for Moms in cyberspace. You'll find helpful suggestions for surviving the holidays, mom to mom talk, great gift ideas for teens, and much more!
Myria - Myria, an online magazine just for moms! Here you can discover articles about love, parenting, health and fitness, beauty and style, money, home and work - along with great ways to feed your soul. Myria exists to support, inform and encourage women who are mothers, celebrating our myriad interests in the context of motherhood.
National Parenting Center - The content changes daily here, with articles for parents of babies through teens. There's also a focus on soon-to-be parents, too! You'll find articles on how to prepare for a parent-teacher conference, how to deal with bed-wetting, how to help your child change schools, and much, much more. There are also live chat opportunities as well as discussion groups. This site is programmed by ParentsPlace, which has a separate listing in this book.
New Homemaker - This neat site will tell you the best way to do your laundry, start a neighborhood playgroup, and how to organize (and simplify!) your life. There are tips on everything from essential cookbooks to volunteering with kids in tow. Enjoy this site while the kids are asleep!
Parent Soup - Remember the story of Stone Soup? Some soldiers boasted that they could make a nourishing soup out of stones. Then they said, does anyone have an onion? A carrot? A potato? Some salt? And soon, everyone in the village brought something to add to the simmering pot. In the end, everyone marveled that such a good soup could be made out of simple stones! This site is sort of like that. It's made up of a community of parents just like you, each bringing some new element to the pot. The content here is based on what other users can add to the mix of real-time chat and discussion groups. Want to ask for help with your shy preschooler? Want someone to talk to while your partner watches football? Want some health, crafts, or entertainment suggestions? Try the Parent Soup community!
Parenting Matters - This site supports the parenting theory of "how reward and punishment as a disciplinary technique can be replaced by limited choices and `natural and logical consequences.'" Everyone's trying to have a role in life, and if kids feel powerless, there can be problems. As this site puts it: "If they can't `count' in a positive way, a negative way will do." Learn how to short-circuit misbehavior by trying some of the techniques described here for both parents and grandparents.
Parenting on the Go - This site is subtitled "Expert suggestions for parenting with discipline." Learn how to set up a disciplined environment, how to increase communication, and how to respond to misbehavior. You'll also read suggestions on dealing with sibling wars and, when all else fails, how to "start all over." One thing you can do is rehearse new responses to whatever your "triggers" are. Instead of blowing up when your child does something wrong, try a more neutral comeback answer, such as "What's your best guess as to what I'm about to do now?" It's important to teach your child to rehearse too, to avoid potential sources of conflict; for example, you could say: "Kari is probably going to want to play with your new toy alone. What can you say to her?" This is an excellent site, with solid suggestions.
Parenting Q & A - If you're looking for expert answers to questions on child development, discipline, motherhood, fatherhood, or special needs, you've come to the right place. Search by broad topic, age level, or keyword. For example, say your child is having a problem with a bully on the school bus. At this site you will find tips on dealing with bullies, suggested books, and additional links to other sources of information. The most important tip is that children's complaints about bullies should not be ignored. Find out why at this site. There is also a link to the Cybermom dot com Web site if you'd like to chat about issues with other parents.
ParentsTalk: Because You're Always a Parent - ParentsTalk: a community for moms and dads of all generations! You'll find family fun ideas and activities, Experts' Advice offers tips on parenting, finance, health, toys and more. Gain insight into kids - see what kids think, say and feel. Find quick-and-easy to exotic recipes from around the world.
Positive Parenting - Parents know that dealing with kids can sometimes be a real battle of wills. This site provides support and advice on how to handle the most difficult situations with your kids. "Nine Things to do Instead of Spanking," "Bedtime Without Struggling," and "Saying I Love You" are only a few features. This site includes a great set of links on parenting and affinity groups and organizations.
Proactive Parenting - Proactive Parenting is an approach to discipline that increases harmony in parent and child relationships. The approach benefits both parents and children through predictable, sensible, developmentally sound strategies. Parents learn how to anticipate situations in which a child may have trouble behaving. They learn how to incorporate age appropriate expectations into their parenting. Proactive Parenting helps parents understand how the specific temperament of their child effects how they manage behavior. This positive and practical approach to parenting is effective with children from birth through young adulthood. Proactive Parenting addresses proactive and conflict strategies that can be employed with each specific age and stage.
Sgt Mom's - The Internet Site for Military Families - It's hard to be a family from a distance when your mom or dad is in the military and you're on the other side of the planet. Sergeant Mom knows how it is. Her site aims to help military families (and military "brats") cope with it all. Be sure to grab a ride on Sergeant Mom's Tank Taxi to get a tour of the entire base, er, Web site.
The Good, the Bad, and the Pong; a Site on Video Games and Kids - This site briefly covers the history of video games and then launches into a study of how gaming affects kids and their schoolwork. Follow the survey methods to the results pages and see what happened when kids gave up video games for two weeks. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition.
The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio - Your kids seem to know about the latest in toys, games, books, software, and other stuff--but do you know what works, what doesn't, what's a waste of money, or what's a good value? The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio is an organization dedicated to providing independent reviews of the best products for children.
Welcome to Sanity Central - A Time-Out From Parenting!! - Kids driving you nuts? Ready to "go postal" at your spouse? Is the knot at the end of your parenting rope slowly slipping through your fingers? Well, drop your straight jacket at the door! Welcome to Sanity Central!!! THE most humorous haven you will find on the web! Within these padded walls they have gathered the leading experts on every aspect of your grown up life! Wallow in their advice, opinions, and most importantly . . . LAUGHTER! So, put your bunny slippers on, pour yourself a glass of your favorite beverage, and dive into our nutbowl! We guarantee you'll go back to your asylum thinking it's a lot less dysfunctional!!!!
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