Parenting Links
Dr. Doris Rapp
author of the NY Times best selling book, "Is This Your Child's World" and pediatrician. Visit her website for important information about children's health and environmental toxins.
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Parents Place
www.parentsplace.com
Full spectrum of parenting is covered in this massive website. 1-800-753-6667
Parent Zone
www.parentzone.com
Parenting challenges are tackled.
Family Education Network
www.familyeducation.com
Links to 8,000+ pages on education and information from local school districts.
Making Lemonade: The Single Parents Network
www.makinglemonade.com
Pampers Parenting Institute
www.pampers.com
Site was partially created by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, pediatrician.
Parents Talk
www.parents-talk.com
Fun, activities, and advice.
Mothers Who Think
www.salonmagazine.com/mwt
Searchhound
www.searchhound.com
Screens websites for adult material.
Kids Online America
www.kola.net
Kid-safe online service; for students, teachers, and parents only. Features include a virtual library and chat rooms.
Animorphs
www.scholastic.com/animorphs
Nickledeon and Scholastic books created; features 5 young heroes who can turn into animals.
Hasbrocollectors.com
www.hasbrocollectors.com
Shrine to childhood memories of parents and grandparents with Mr. Potato Head.
Lifeminders
www.lifeminders.com
E-mail reminder service for dates and events. EntertainmentMinder lets you know when your favorites
are released so you can put them on your gift list.
Bargain Trips
www.expedia.msn.com/daily/etndeals
Check your credit risk
www.icreditreport.com
Quick test to see how your spending habits and
financial situation rate in the credit-scoring world.
Reports are $30.
Troubleshoot car problems
autos.yahoo.com/repair/tree/0.html
Menus on the Move
www.sidewalk.com
Business travelers, tourists, parents, etc. can tap into restaurant surveys to find suitable food while traveling.
Avoid Food Poisoning
www.foodsafety.org
Sponsored by the National Food Safety Database.
All About Home
www.allabouthome.com
Home maintenance tips sponsored by Service Master.
Volunteermatch.com
Find a worth cause by entering your zip code.
National and state park locator
www.llbean.com/parksearch
Discovery News Online
www.discovery.com
Children's Express
www.ce.org
Produced and written by a global network of kids.
Yak's Corner Magazine
www.yakscorner.com
Time Magazine for Kids
pathfinder.com/TFK
National Geographic for Kids
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Offers online exhibits on an array of science and technology topics.
American Library Association
This site includes information about authors, KidsConnect (for help locating all the information online), and educational games. 50+ Great Sites for Kids & Parents enables preschool through elementary school children to explore rainbows, black history, castles for kids, award-winning news reported by children for children, the Kids Web Page Hall of Fame, to say nothing of watching dolphins, learning lullabies, and much more.
NASA's Quest Project
Watch Live from Mars, audio and video transmissions of the Pathfinder's explorations
NASA
Find more adventures in space, including views from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a different NASA site.
Public Broadcasting System
Climb Mt. Everest, explore the Pyramids, and go on other electronic field trips. Preschool children can enjoy children's programming here, elementary school children can practice story telling, and teenagers and adults can take telecourses.
Jason Project
Join an interactive exploration of the oceans, on earth and beyond.
Exploratorium
Puzzle over optical illusions, take memory tests, and conduct experiments, online and off, at the Exploratorium.
Library of Congress
Explore including exhibits on topics ranging from ballet to Jelly Roll Morton, Native American flutes to Thomas Jefferson's pasta machine.
Parents and Children Together Online
Read stories with your children, let them add to the stories told around the Global Campfire, and find links to other good family sites.
Healthlinks
Find educational resources through distance learning.
Netparents
Find information on blocking software.
Fifty Extraordinary Experiences
for Internet Kids invites viewers to make their own home page, visit the Kremlin, look inside the human heart, take Socks' special VIP tour of the White House, and make a boat trip around the world.
Berit's Best Sites for Children
Helps you learn about earthquakes, visit the imagination factory and make junk mail jewelry, descend into a volcano, tour a human cell, go on a world "surfari," solve a crime, and fly a kite.
Steve Savitzky's Interesting Places for Kids
an award-winning site in its own right with many unusual links.
The American Academy of Pediatrics
Wide variety of information for parents concerning their children's health and well-being; covering topics such as immunizations, sleep problems, newborn care, and television.
The National Urban League
Useful resource for tracking programs and events related to African-American issues. It is a rich reference area for students, parents, teachers and history buffs.
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Wonderful guide to encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference works, and other resources on a great variety of subjects.
My Virtual Reference Desk
offers dozens of links-to dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference/research materials, thesauruses, atlases, sports, entertainment, and much more-as well as a search engine for locating more information.
The Internet Public Library: Reference Center
Provides an "ask a question" feature and a teen collection, as well as sections on reference, arts and humanities, science and technology, and education.
The Children's Partnership
Offers, for free, the full text of its useful guide, The Parents' Guide to the Information Superhighway: Rules and Tools for Families Online, prepared with the National PTA and the National Urban League.
The National Parent Information Network
co-sponsored by the ERIC Clearinghouses on Elementary and Early Childhood Education and Urban Education, includes extensive articles on parenting, listservs, and links to more than 100 sites on education, health and safety, family issues and interests, and parenting and development of children from infancy to adolescence.
National PTA
Learn about PTA education programs and participate in a discussion group, chat room, or bulletin board. The site also includes links to sites of many organizations concerned with children.
The Family Education Network
offers hundreds of brief articles on parenting, links to local sites, and discussion boards that connect parents with online experts.
The Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, highlights school-community- business partnerships and includes a calendar of events.
Department of Education
parents will find information about the President's education initiatives, college financial aid, and parenting publications, along with links to other useful education sites.
The National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education
provides a catalog of resources available from all its member organizations. The National Coalition of Title I/Chapter 1 Parents (202-547-9286) helps economically disadvantaged parents develop skills to enhance the quality of their children's education.
Parent Soup
includes an archive of answers to questions asked of pediatricians and child development experts and advice about helping your children succeed in school.
Parents at Home
especially for at-home parents, offers e-mail pen pals, a booklist, and links to children's sites.
Magellan
uses a rating scale to evaluate parenting sites. To look at the ratings or follow the links, select Reviews, Life & Style, Family, and Parenting.
ASPIRA Association, Inc.
highlights its two national parent involvement programs-ASPIRA Parents for Educational Excellence Program (APEX) and Teachers, Organizations, and Parents for Students Program (TOPS). Each program provides a Spanish/English curriculum that strives to empower Latino parents and families.
Goddess Lore
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2839/goddess.htm
Goddess Web
http://www.missouri.edu/~c700100/goddess/main.html
Woman Spirit: Recovering the Divine Feminine -
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/2042
SageWoman
http://www2.sagewoman.com/index.nclk
Kissing Sophia: Meditations on Goddess Spirituality, Nature and Wisdom -
http://sophiaslove.com
Spiritual and Sacred Prophecy for the New Millenium
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/moonlodge/index.html
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