The Kids on the Web: Things for Adults

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• If you're doing the fun game of potty-versus-diaper, check out the conversations at the Potty Training Message Board. Questions, stories, and advice about potty training will let you talk to parents in similar situations. Discussions about bet wetting, picking products, and even general parenting discussions can help you out.
  
• Math and Reading Help for Kids is a comprehensive directory of original articles, tips, and resources to help parents and children make informed decisions about school related topics and issues. This directory contains hundreds of articles about a variety of children's education topics including: homeschooling, online tutoring, learning disabilities, test anxiety, and more. Although the articles in this site are primarily written for a parent audience, there is also a Just for Kids section created specifically for children.
  
• Using Music in Therapy: The Power of Music as a Coping Skill works to help children and adolescents by examining the power of using popular music, something people already listen to, in therapy. Includes examples of therapeutic messages in popular music as well as original music by Freudian Slip, a therapeutic rock band.
  
• PTA Central is an educational information website which focuses on parental involvement in schools. They can help you find resources throughout the United States for Parent Teacher Groups on a local, state and national level. Topics range from school fundraising to regional Parent Teacher Association contacts to classroom initiatives and more.
  
• Parenting is the most important job in the world. If you drop by Parenting.com, the online home of "Parenting" and "BabyTalk" magazines. Their free on-line archives contain thousands of articles from "Parenting," "BabyTalk," "Healthy Pregnancy," and "Family Life" magazine. They also feature a variety of tools, databases, and reviews.
  
• Songs Of Love is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating personalized songs for chronically and terminally ill children and young adults. These one-of-a-kind compositions are a wonderful source of joy and inspiration to the special people who receive them.
  
• The National PTA, the oldest and largest volunteer association in the United States working exclusively on behalf of children and youth, has its own Web page! It also includes information about each state PTA office.
  
• Run by a practicing pediatrician, kidsDoctor is a way to have a ``virtual'' house-call. It's a 24 hr-a-day source for "What every parent needs to know" when it comes to keeping kids healthy. You can do searches for any random ailment or medical condition, and find out some really helpful information.
  
• babyonline is a comprehensive information service for parents and childcare professionals alike. Addressing pregnancy, parenting, prenatal/postnatal and baby issues. Expert Q&A, competitions, baby articles and parenting chat forum.
  
• Things change every day when you stop by a visit on the Family.Com. Parenting advice, planning family vacations, exchange of opinions on different methods to raise children, all of this and more is found at a really impressive site.
  
• Parent Soup lets parents share stories, participate with their children in live chats on a variety of topics (like comedy or breakfast with certain characters), get advice from family counseling and behavior experts, and even read your horoscope.
  
• Parents can get help with fussy crying babies who just can't sleep. The Baby Go To Sleep music lullaby tapes will sooth and relax your child, and help them fall asleep. You can also get a manual on How to Win a Pinewood Car Derby.
  
• Check out the Robinson's Read Aloud Family Bookstore, where they recommend and sell great books for families to read aloud. They offer much encouragement for families to never stop reading aloud. They've unearthed treasures, some from bygone days, some recent, that adults and children will love.
  
• Parent Education Resources are available to help parents prepare their children for kindergarten.
  
• Child Quest International is a non-profit corporation devoted to the protection and recovery of missing, abused, and exploited children.
  
• There's a fantastic page that walks kids though basic safety steps in all areas of life, from the Internet to poison to meeting the bus and more.
  
• At the Parent's and Teacher's Place of the KidsCom page, you can get help understanding technical things, consult with other parents or child-rearing experts, or find activities to do with your children.
  
• There's an Internet site and video called KEYEYE ``making kids safe''. It supports the KEYEYE ``making kids safe'' streetproofing video program for children and their families. The site contains a picture book version of this safety video. Children and educators can preview and learn about the video and its messages. It is also a location forum for feedback on the KEYEYE program and for sharing safety issues with parents and kids.
  
• Cybercalifragilistic offers a variety of adorable t-shirts with slogans like ""User Friendly Kid for tech support call my Mommy and Daddy" and "Lap Top Child Boot Up Before I Spit Up."
  
• A complete electronic resource for the prevention of lost, missing, abducted, or abused children, Safe-T-Child Online has bits of advice you can pass on to your kids, and links to relevant sites.
  
• The National Parent Information Network (NPIN) provides information and communications capabilities to parents and those who work with parents.
  
• Parents who browse the World Wide Web now have a new stop called the Child Safety Forum. The site provides safety information that may save your child's life or prevent a serious injury. Each month, the Child Safety Forum features child safety tips for a different room of your home.
  
• The Vancouver Police Union Charitable Foundation has a page called Protecting Children in Cyberspace, offering information about the protection of children, identifying child abuse, and protecting kids online.
  
• There's a Web page being used to try to further distribute information about Emilie Claire Hardy, Age 3, who was abducted by her non-custodial father on January 29, 1995 from Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. You can write to FindEmilie@aol.com with any tips that could lead to her return.
  
• The Nemours Foundation has a project for kids, families, and professionals devoted to the health care of children.
  
• The Busy Teachers' WebSite offers an organized set of annotated links that lead directly to source materials for teachers to use in their lesson plans.
  
• The Missing Children Database is a mirror site for the Missing Children's Forum on CompuServe. It contains known information about, and pictures of, children who are missing. The database is maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
  
• SOS Children's Villages helps orphaned children return to the safe haven of a family.
  
• As a project of the US Department of Education, the Helping Your Child series includes information like helping your child learn to read, learn history, get ready for school, learn things like math, science, and geography, and how to use the library.
  
• Visit the African Studies Penpal Website to learn about penpals who write between Aspen, Colorado an Malawi, Central Africa; the program is for kids in the 5th to 8th grades.
  
• The project Believe In Yourself was formed to raise the self-esteem of elementary school children and their parents through educational tutoring, communication, and peacemaking skills development.
  
• Dallas Child is a magazine for parents.
  
• Another worth reading is Family World, a collaboration of over 40 monthly parenting publications. The articles are very well written, and many have remarkably useful information.
  
• Plugged In is a non-profit group dedicated to bringing the educational opportunities created by new technologies to children and families from low-income communities.
  
• You may also be interested in PAVNET - Violence & Youth at Risk Information.
  
• The Precious in HIS Sight Internet Adoption Photolisting contains photos and bios of children available for international adoption as well as the US adoption agency's name, address, and phone number. Also included is general information on adoption, a list of all international adoption agencies in the US, links to other adoption information on the Internet, and a special feature section.
  
• The Florida SchoolYear 2000 Initiative is a redesign of K-12 education, including all instructional, social, and business aspects of the schooling process.
  
• Andy Carvin at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a project called EdWeb, an impressive work-in-progress. It will let you explore on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education reform and the "information highway," examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much more. Numerous changes and additions will occur every day.
  
• There's a grassroots project called KIDLINK that aims at getting as many children as possible in the age group of 10-15 to become involved in a global dialog. KIDLINK is the name of the organization that runs the yearly KIDS-nn projects. Since the start in 1990, over 35,000 kids from 69 countries on all continents have participated in their activities.

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