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We're proud to bring you this list of KidSource approved and rated websites! Each website has been reviewed by the KidSource staff for its content, overall quality and ease of use. We've sorted them by age group or by category.
Our rating system for these websites is:
- Best, in depth and most helpful overall
- Very Good, but more specific in focus
- Good reference material
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American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.Our Web site features a wide variety of information for parents on its YOU and YOUR FAMILY page.
The AAP is the definitive source of pediatric information. At their site you'll find electronic access to articles from their professional publication - Pediatrics, plus great articles such as the "Family Guide to Car Seats". In addition, there are many great books and pamphlets for sale.
California Association for the Gifted
The California Association for the Gifted through its website provides many resources to both parents and educators.
A great list of resources, links, organizations and books for parents of gifted children. This site is not just for parents in California, but for parents anywhere in the world.
Child Safety on the Information Highway
SafeKids.Com is where you'll find tips, advice and suggestions to make your family's online experience fun and productive.
This is a great starting point for all information about safety on the Internet - whether it's for your young child, your teen or even yourself. Review the safety 'rules' with your children, read up on privacy issues and if you don't already have software to filter out objectionable sites, review their list.
Children with Diabetes is the on-line source for kids, parents and families with juvenile diabetes.
If your child, or a child you know, has diabetes, you'll find this site an excellent source of information. It has both the depth and breadth of information to be a valuable resource for both parents and health care professionals.
Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth of The Johns Hopkins University
For the past 18 years the mission of the Institute has been to identify, nurture, and develop academic talent among precollegiate students. This aim has been pursued through an array of activities: summer academic and distance education programs, talent identification, consultation services, publishing, research, and public policy.IAAY offers educational programs that match the specific abilities,interests, and motivations of our students. We call our philosophy and practice of education the Optimal Match, and it is the guiding principal of our organization.
If your child is gifted, then you'll want to review the programs, articles and resources here. This is an in-depth and serious site not only providing information to parents, but one that promotes educational reform for gifted students worldwide.
KidsHealth, created by doctors and health professionals, provides information to parents and kids about a wide range of children's health care issues. Using a fun, colorful train theme, award-winning KidsHealth provides up-to-date reliable information about growth, well child care, behavior, common childhood illnesses, immunizations, asthma, hyperactivity and lots more.
This is one of the most comprehensive pediatric medical sites we've found. It's well designed and divided into sections for kids, parents and professionals. The kids' section has those common, but difficult quesitions that children ask. The parents' section has one of the best reference sections on childhood diseases on the web. The information is both understandable and technically complete.
littlechiles.com is a website provide Spanish language books, videos and software for children, parents and educators.
This is a very nice site for Spanish language products. You'll find a wealth of children's products, including books, videos and software. The site is easy to use and is nicely designed. The products on this site will be valuable if your child's native language is Spanish, or if they are learning Spanish as a second language. .
Teaching Strategies, Inc. offers information for parents and teachers of children from birth through age three including: *in-depth information about The Creative Curriculum and other Teaching Strategies resources, including writings by Diane Trister Dodge and others.
This very useful site will help both parents and teachers educate young children - from infants through the third grade. The parents section has specific activities and strategies, such as "Learning through Daily Activites" and "Learning through Routines". You'll also find a great list of links for a wide variety of educational topics. If you have young children, then you should visit this site.
CyberAngels is non profit organization dedicated to everything you ever wanted to know about your cyber-neighborhood watch and about protecting your children in cyberspace.
Another great site filled with articles, links and information about online safety. The articles are from a book entitled "Parents and the Internet". Online chat and online classes are offered.
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 500 interactive "hands on" exhibits. Each year more than 600,000 visitors come to the Exploratorium, over 95,000 students and teachers come on field trips, and more than 2000 teachers attend professional development programs which focus on inquiry-based teaching and learning in the K-12 classroom.
Whether or not you've visited the Exploratorium in San Francisco, you will enjoy this site which brings science facts and information to the web in a fun and easy-to-navigate website. Visit this site with your entire family!
Eating Disorders at Miningco.com
A helpful directory of eating disorders links and information including pen pals and a chat room. You may receive specific guidance from guide Chris Hay, M.C.
If you need information about any eating disorder, then start at this site. You'll find short informative descriptions and a long list of links for each disorder. Links point at chat rooms, therapy options, symptoms and crisis centers. This site has information for people of all ages.
Gifted Psychology Press, Inc. is a small publishing company located in Scottsdale, Arizona. We specialize in books and materials for and about gifted and are for parents, educators, and other professionals. Our web site offers resources, author articles, links to other sites and our catalog.
For those interested in gifted children, this site provides wealth of available literature including on-line articles, links and books for sale. Founded by James T. Webb.
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
This exciting site contains links to gifted education resources all over the world, carefully annotated and organized into content areas including academic acceleration, gifted learning disabled, profoundly gifted, educational theories, and lots more. In addition, you can find resources for our kids, including magazines, software, web links and books, plus first hand success stories by the parents of gifted kids. International lists of organizations and conferences, too. Check it out!
If your child is gifted or is gifted and learning disabled, then you'll want to visit this site. Here you'll find a very thorough and complete set of articles, books, magazines, conferences and links about these topics.
National Mental Health and Education Center for Children and Families
The National Mental Health and Education Center for Children and Families, a public service program of the National Association of School Psychologists, is an information and action network to foster best practices in education and mental health for children and families--which builds upon strengths, understands diversity, and supports families. The Center provides free information to parents, teachers, administrators and policy makers on issues concerning children's education and mental health.
Whether you are a parent or a teacher you'll find a wide variety of informative articles and newsletters on this site. In the Parenting and Family area we found articles entitled "Steps Towards Effective Parenting", and "Homework Survival Guide". Many of the articles require the free Adobe reader for viewing.
Parenting Today's Teen is a valuable resource for those who live with or work with teens. Articles, written by professionals and parents, cover today's teen issues: pregnancy, discipline, curfew, drugs and alcohol, education, lying, stepfamilies, depression and more. Our book store is filled with parenting-related books, and our parenting forum is a place to find support, ask questions and make new friends. We're here to help you navigate those sometimes-frustrating teen years--you're not alone!
If you have teens, then you'll want to visit this site. You'll find articles on everything from "teens and jobs" to "Is this kid normal or have I failed as a parent". They don't shy away from the tough issues either, and you'll find many warm and touching sections as well.
THE PARENT ADVISOR'S Health & Safety
A huge emphasis of this site is on the health and safety of children, current recalled children's toys and products, car seats and air bag warnings and proper usage, new teen driving laws as well as environmental hazards, safety at home, school and daycare. Articles range from newborn through late teens.
This site has lots of information for parents including health & safety articles, activities, nutrition and education information and recall notices.
Weekly Reader Galaxy It is a great educational site for all! It's for kids: Weekly Reader Galaxy features a stellar of activities for kids in PK through grade 10. Kids can speak out on important issues, enter contests, color on-line, play trivia games, participate in weekly polls, read news updates, take on-line field trips, and much more. It's for teachers: Teachers can journey through the Galaxy to find updates to important Weekly Reader stories, explore Web links to other news sources and educational resources, and find activities to use in the classroom. It's for parents: Parents can get parenting tips written by experts from the National Parenting Center and medical tips written by our panel of doctors. They can also play an arcade of fun activities with kids and cook up tasty recipes.
Not only is this site graphically cool, it's loaded with fun activities, historical trivia, ask the expert, virtual field trips and contests. The information is age-categorized for parents, teachers, and kids for easy navigation and houses a resource for 8000 software titles.
Have you got a newborn in the family? Then check out this free birth announcement service for new parents. They offer free Web pages announcing births, so that faraway families can share in the bragging.
This site contains a wide variety of newborn and prenatal information and free services, from baby names, childbirth and breastfeeding information to birth announcements.
18 ways for parrents and grandparents to teach their children the value of money. Other areas include: young spender's profile, credit risk profile, credit risk profile for youths, ten commandments of personal finance for young people.
At some point, parents are faced with how to teach their children to manage their finances responsibly. This site, done by the non-profit National Center for Financial Education, will help you do that, and will provide you with helpful tips to manage your own finances.
Comprehensive mental health site with lot's of good, authoritative info for/about your children and yourself. 24 hr. telephone (888-415-TALK)/internet counseling service with licensed professional counselors. Get immediate, CONFIDENTIAL, supportive help and relief from the difficulties or problems affecting your life. Chat, specialized eating disorders site, updated ezine, parenting and mental health resources, weekly online conferences where you can ask your personal questions, real audio interviews, more.
A resource site for on-line counsel which includes chat, events, and bulletin boards as well as mental health resource links across the web.
2000+ toys, books, ADLs and adapted hard/software for children with disabilities. Features: Innovative services, three specialized search engines for parents and professionals, and collections of special one-click searches. Search for toys based on a child's individual developmental profile! Commerce enabled.
For the child with special needs, this site offers educational material (in the form of toys, cards and games) that parents can use to help their child. The catalog is accessed through a searchable database. A child's profile is required. The navigation is very lengthy, but there is a pot of gold at the end of the journey!
Drynights for Good Mornings (TM)
Does your child still wet the bed? Are you still frustrated by wet sheets and extra laundry? www.drynights.com offers parents, children and healthcare providers information about the common condition called primary nocturnal enuresis, more commonly known as bed-wetting. Visit drynights.com to access information about the causes of, and treatments for, bed-wetting, as well as a list of resources where you can get help. The site is sponsored by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals Inc.
An informative site for parents, kids and the medical profession on the health issue of bedwetting. The site is produced by Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals and has do's and don'ts for parents, stories and advice for kids and resources on treatments for doctors. The articles provide insight and are careful to encourage positive and open therapies for this medical problem.
Hi, I know what a helping hand can mean, I'm dyslexic. My name is Girard Sagmiller and I'm the webmaster of the web page "Dyslexia My Life", a web page dedicated to listing information on Dyslexia and LD.
This site has been created and is managed by a person who is dyslexia. Here you'll find a good list of resources, products, links and checklists for parents to determine if their child may be dyslexic.
Everything But the Baby is an on line catalog featuring everything you need for your baby. From bedding to feeding we have it all!
If you want to shop for a new baby on-line or register your "wish" list for friends and relatives buying for a new baby, this site carries all the latest infant products.
Impact of Technology is a resource for educators to better understand how computers are affecting the education of our children.
There is much controvery over the impact of computer technology on the education of our children. This site provides information on research in this area. The articles here are primarily written for educators, but will be of interest to parents who are trying to better understand the facts behinds the debates.
To People Interested in Helping Kids: Please tell your friends about Kid's Korner and Toddler Tales, a free web page for all kids but especially for disabled, injured, or ill children. It has illustrated stories that can be read wherever a hospital has computers or at home in bed. The URL is: These stories are fun, entertaining, educational, teach good values, and are illustrated in full color. They are unique and may help fill the need for quality reading for children: TODDLER TALES "Blow Wind Blow" (age 2-6): A child asks his mother what the wild wind is saying when it blows through the valley and the trees and shakes the window glass, and she tells him. "A Mouse Named Fred" (age 2-6): A little mouse is helped by his friends when his efforts to beautify his home could attract the neighborhood cat. KID'S KORNER "Calling Bird" (for age 7-12) A young Indian maiden sings so beautifully that even the trees are charmed, until one day she has a terrible accident. Will she ever regain her voice? "The Cat In The Woods" (for age 7-12) A cat hides in the woods so as not to be eaten and discovers different kinds of friendship. Will his new friends eat him? "The Naughty Little Good Witch" (for age 4-9): A little witch gets in trouble for doing good things. Can she protect her friends from her cruel mother? "Kukahiko Island" (for age 3-12): A special island where a cuckoo kicks coconuts against a kayak because everything begins with the 'K' sound, an island where krazy and tongue-twisting things happen daily. "Bohideus: Edge Of Another World" (age 9-14), Adventure/Sci-Fi: A young boy is catapulted into the adventure of a life-time when he is pulled by the forces of nature over the largest waterfall in the universe and ends up in a strange new world. He survives using his wits and ingenuity, but will he ever be able to return home? (Click on chapter of your choice) Thank-you, The authors, Adrienne Potter and Warren Scott Foster
If you are looking for child-friendly web sites to share with your preschool or grades school child, this is it! This site has illustrated children's stories in large type with age appropriate material!
Knox Breastfeeding Accessories
Providing high quality breast pumps and other products to breastfeeding mothers. Also included is the "Breastfeeding Answers" series from Ameda/Egnell, twelve topics with up-to-date information.
If you are pregnant or the parent of a newborn, then you'll want to look at this site. While it's primarily a product sales site, you'll also find good information about the benefits of breastfeeding.
Make a Farm - An Activity for Kids
Free software for students to create their own model farm, with silo, barn, chicken coop, etc. Kids set out fields, choose crops, decide what animals to have on their farm, and what to grow to feed themselves and their animals.
This is one of a variety of free software programs for young kids to do with their parents. Requires Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 and a printer.
This site is developed and maintained by the Texas Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) with support from the Texas Education Agency as the designated Mathematics Center for Educator Development and from the National Science Foundation.
This site provides information about a K-8 math curriculum with goals, lessons and activities. While focused on TEKS, it is still interesting to anyone involved in teaching math.
The National Center of Fathering has developed a variety of useful, "how to" resources, all based on sound research data. With these resources, and the help of other men, we believe men can discover, develop and enhance their fathering...and become the dads their children desperately need.
This is a site devoted to fathers. Here you'll find parenting tips, information for divorced, single and stay at home dads and more. There is also a good humor area that both moms and dads will enjoy.
Natural Mom.com is a site dedicated to providing information, resources, conversation and shopping to the Natural Mom (and Dad). We focus on health and healing our families naturally. The site includes many articles, links, references guides, and newsletters, Send-A-Cure, Natural Mom Award, and encyclopedias of info. needed to heal our children and ourselves.
A visually beautiful and easy to navigate site devoted to alternative healthcare for pregnancy, childbirth and families.
Special Children from The Mining Company is a site built on love and committment to educating and empowering those who are touched by having special children in their lives. This site is new but growing quickly with many goals.
A well organized site that has basic information on a wide variety of learning disabilities and other topics for children with special needs. It's main value is the useful lists of links sorted by category.
Parents Educators and Publishers
The PEP site is an informational resource for Parents, Educators, and children's software Publishers. It contains information on computer products, camps, Internet safety, computer recycling and more.
There are many useful areas on this site, such as the section on Internet saftey, lists of computer camps for kids and many links to other areas. This is a good place to start if you're looking for information on your child and computers.
Purple-Moon.com is a girls' online community where girls can make new friends, create their own personal pages, collect and trade virtual treasures, and go on exciting adventures with a diverse cast of nearly 20 Purple Moon characters! Activities include voting, scavenger hunts and the creating all-new stories that are published on the Web site.
If you have a daughter aged 8-12, you will be interested in this girl-friendly, safe and fun site. The website allows girls to see the latest software featuring Rockett and her friends, go on adventures with these characters and send postcards to other girls who share similar interests. There are some parental controls available and all postcard conversations require a password login.
RollerBags.com - Backpacks on Wheels!
Take that weight off your back! Rollerbags.com is the home site for the Roller Backpack, which is a backpack that allows you to easily transport heavy loads on wheels instead of straining your back. If you prefer, the Roller Backpack can also be carried like a traditional backpack using the adjustable padded shoulder straps. The back panel is padded for additional comfort. To help public awareness, Rollerbags.com is also sponsoring a childrens’ back pain resource site to house a collection of articles discussing the problem.
If you've ever wondered about how heavy backpacks may be effecting your child's back, then visit this site. They have a long list of news and reference articles on the topic. They also sell a truely unique backpack that converts into a pull cart with wheels.
"Taking The Bully By The Horns" is a self-help book/web site dedicated to helping children/young teens deal with Bullies/Self-esteem/Violence. Supported by Schs/Child Orgs/Parents/Dr.'s, we explore different ways kids are bullied - mentally and physically, how the bully becomes a bully, how the victim becomes a victim, & what can be done about it. Last year, 76.8% of students surveyed said they had been bullied/14% experienced servere (bad) reactions to the abuse. It's time to do something about it!
This website explores different ways children and teenagers are bullied (both mentally and physically), how the bully becomes a bully, how the victim becomes a victim (sometimes there's a fine line between the two!), and what can be done about it. It has information for parents, teachers and kids.
The web's first and finest baby care and child safety boutique. This site features hundreds of hard-to-find and unique baby care products from around the world and a wide assortment of safety and baby-proofing equipment. Easy to navigate and use, The ChildSecure Catalog has been making customers happy online since 1995! Customers also enjoy access to our extensive health and safety libraries and interactive "Ask The Doctor" column.
While primarily a site to sell children's safety products, this site does have a good assortment of safety and recall information.
America's Health Care Source - Careers and More!
Health Care Jobs Updated Daily, Career Info for Medical Professionals, also Continuing Education, Association and Licensure Info. Links and More!
If your teen is considering a career in the medical profession, then they will find a variety of references and links at this site.
Space Coast Early Intervention Center
A nationally recognized not-for-profit pre-school and therapeutic center for children with and without developmental delays ages 18 months to five years. Our environment provides role modeling from peers and allows the children to reach their full potential.
This site is for parents who are looking for an organization to provide early intervention programs. While light on general information, it will be of interest to parents looking for contacts and resources.
Help your son or daughter get the most from their soccer experience. In the words of Anne H. Woodworth, mom of Alexi Lalas, the best-known U.S. player, The Soccer Mom Handbook provides "a good solid background in soccer, combined with laughs and a basic message of common sense, ingredients that will make being a soccer mom one of the best experiences of your parenting." The website introduces the book and provides additional tips and information. Team managers will get help from other tips and the book What? ME Manage the Soccer Team?
If your child plays soccer, you'll appreciate this site. While it primarily promotes their books, you'll also find amusing and practical information about being an infamous "soccer mom".
Mothers in Sympathy & Support- M.I.S.S.
A beautiful and angelic site for bereaved parents which includes memorials, funeral information, grief support, literature and much more. This is a haven for parents enduring the tragedy of the death of their infant or young child.
Resources for parents in technology, reviews of smart toys, robotics, home automation and more.
