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The Internet is a powerful tool for education, information and personal enjoyment. Today's children are familiar and comfortable navigating the net but, as a parent, do you worry about what they may be viewing?

Family oriented web sites and sites approved by filtering programs such as NetNanny are designed for kids to have fun and explore without worrying about being exposed to things they should not have to see.

The sites listed below are oriented towards kids and they feature safeguards such as chat rooms with adult chaperone monitoring, and parental permission required to chat. There are also games, educational and homework sites and fun stuff for kids of all ages. ( A few sites for parents too!!) Plus a listing of websites that offer Internet filtering programs online.

Sites that were particularly good are marked with a spinning block.

Have fun and happy surfing!!

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Funbrain

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This is a great site for growing kids that offers games by age and grade level.There's information for parents and teachers and quizzes for students and parents alike to take online. They have math and grammer skill building games along with some that are just for fun. Parents can look through and choose and rate games and play two player games like "Brain Bowl" with their kids. An all around great family site.

YAHOOLIGANS !!

Yahooligans! is a site geared towards safe Internet use for kids. It features a Net Surfing Safety Quiz kids can take and a filtering search engine. There are other cool site links for kids, safe downloads, a parents guide, and daily categories with subjects like "Britney Spears" and "Pokemon". Good site for safe surfing and fun.

PBS Kids

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PBS is the home of many childrens favorites such as Teletubbies, Barney, Caillou, Clifford the Dog and Mister Rogers. The site allows kids to learn all about their favorite characters and play along with their friends in interactive point-and-click games. There's an art center, coloring, jokes and karaoke sing-a-long. All icons are easy to understand and use, toddlers to early school age will have hours of fun exploring.

ChildNet

An Online Guide to Youth and Childrens Resources. Child.net is mostly composed of links. There are three categories from kids to teens to parents AND teens. The links listed under these categories address issues kids and teens would be interested in. (Drug and alcohol abuse in teens, classroom study ideas, kids chat and entertainment ect.)Parents may find useful information under links to "Tough Love" parenting, womens resources, or read about other parents experience on the message boards.

GetNetWise

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Promoting net safety for kids and safe sites is NetWises' main objective. Learn how to get the entire family into the online experience and find out about what your child should know to be safe on the net. Most tips are based on age level and amount of Internet use. Learn how to identify Internet trouble early and how to report it. Besides all the safety NetWise has a vast archive of safe sites for families.

Safe Kids

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A truly great and comprehensive site on the subject of Internet safety for kids, parents, and teens. There is information on the very basics of computer and Internet use for parents (just in case the kids seem to know more than you do). Safe Kids provides links to resources such as kid safe filtered search engines, articles and recent issues and best of all, a directory of Internet Filtering software programs parents can browse through to find what would best suit their family. The SafeKids site is one of the best sites on Internet safety on the Web.

Kids Domain Online Games

Kids Domain has a huge selection of online games. Most can even be played without plug-ins or shockwave. These web based games are geared mostly for elementary aged children.
Some game titles include, "Arthur Goes to School","Doll house Sticker Fun", "Creature Creator", "Sesame Street", and "Cats in A Line". There is hours of play time to the site so have fun!

EZONE: All for Fun and Fun for All

Ezone's motto is true for their site. Though you have to download Macromedia Shockwave program to play most of their games the download is easy and you'll be playing in no time.
The games feature surfing,snowboarding and solitaire plus much more. They also link to more games and fun for all ages.

Nickelodeon

Kids who watch and love Nickelodeon will have as much fun on their website. Kids can chat, participate in online votes, message boards and keep in touch. There are dozens of things to check out including games, news for kids, and daily horoscopes. Most of the games feature characters from Nickelodeon shows. If you like to watch Nickelodeon you'll love surfing their site!

ALFY

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Alfy is a little critter with a very fun and interactive site full of tons of games, coloring, and much more fun for preschoolers. The site is designed with lots of movement and easy navigation for younger kids. The majority of the games are educational and will entertain a child for hours.
There is alot of variety so make sure you check everything out!

Teen.com

Teen.com is the source for teens to get together, share information, learn, and keep up to date on their favorite stars. Chat, create your own e-mail account, vote in online polls and find out about current events. Hot features like health and beauty, cars, colleges, games, horoscopes, prom, sports, your body, and (ugh!) homework. Good for teens and pre-teens alike.

Pregnancy: A Week by Week Guide

This guide offers week by week descriptions of the baby's growth and development within the womb. They also give the mother a list of what she can expect to feel during that week of pregnancy whether she's having her first, second, or a set of twins. There is also some tips for the dad involved. Great site for anyone expecting!

The National Parenting Center

The National Parenting Center online is dedicated to providing with parents comprehensive and responsible guidance from the world's most renowned child rearing authorities. They put their Seal of Approval on products for parents and kids and offer a parents corner where parents can publish their own secrets to parenting. There are tons of articles on parenting to browse through as well.

ABC's Of Parenting

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This is an extremely good site with many links to information on all issues and aspects of parenting. Health, education, nutrition, fatherhood/motherhood, pregnancy, toddlers, discipline, stay at home parenting and many, many more. They also have a chat, discussion board and a weekly newsletter you can recieve by e-mail. For everything about being a parent go to ABC's of Parenting.

Parenting Q&A

As a parent do you have some questions you need answered? Don't know who to ask? Check out Parenting Q and A for information specific to your childs age. From babies to toddlers to pre-teens and teens there is a multitude of everyday worries and questions answered on this site. Child experts, pediatricians and psychologists lend their advice to the site to help parents with questions they aren't sure who or how to ask.

Family Fun

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Don't know what to do with the kids on rainy days? Tips and tricks to keep your family busy all year round! Crafts, recipies, tips for planning parties, choosing and taking care of a family pet, discussion boards, guides to family books and movies and a family vacation planner.Whether you only have one child or ten find out how to keep them busy.Educational and fun for parents too!

Marriage Support

Marriage support by Couples Place.com is a great way to find out more about your relationship. A site for mom and dad to go to find ideas for romance, participate in discussion boards, polls and quicktakes on relationship issues like "what do we agree on?". Keeping a relationship healthy keeps an entire family happy so put a little romance back into your relationship with some ideas from Marriage Support.

Hubbynet

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An excellent site for all you family guys out there. Providing links to other sites for men like Maxim and Esquire along with home repair tips, sites for marriage help and ideas, car repair and fatherhood. So much to see and do plus discussion boards for men to post their own family adventures and laments. From checking your horoscope to checking sports scores an excellent site for the married man !

Cyber Seniors

CyberSeniors is an online resource for senior citizens issues and interests. They have a basic "Interent Rookies" tutorial for first-timers, and much more to get seniors interested in the World Wide Web. Tips on using the net and links to other sites of interest for seniors and seniors resources on money, safety, health, employment, and education. If you are a senior interested in getting net savvy, check out CyberSeniors!