Twinz Unlimited
Twinz Unlimited is a site dedicated to twins and supertwins (triplets, quadruplets, etc.), with information, trivia, fun and games. Find out about famous twins, famous parents of twins, and tricks twins can play. Read news about twins and share your twin stories. Learn twin facts and common misconceptions about twins. There is a "parents only" section for parents who have twins. The site also offers a Bulletin Board, a chat room, and more twin-related links.


Planet Zoom
Planet Zoom was created by a group of Minnesota college students who saw a need for quality children's sites on the Web. The site is an adventure wonderland that makes use of Java and VRML to provide interactive games, activities, and stories. On Kiwi Island, kids can learn about off-the-wall animals or visit Doc Croc to ask questions and learn how a computer works. Kids can visit the Great Ruby Reef to find out what life would be like if they lived in various other countries, or go to Midnight Mountain to play Monster Maker and Ghost of a Chance. There are many more adventures at these locations, not to mention Doc's River Raft and Storybook Park. Planet Zoom is a site for kids that is safe, educational, and above all, fun!
http://www.planetzoom.com

Planet Blortland
Blortland is a special planet that lies in a hidden part of the universe. Here live many wondrous creatures: Blorts, Cloud Blorts, Slurplants, Star Slurpants, Droppies and Tronts, and the villainous Phunts and Phunt Fish. Kids can visit the Blortlanders on their islands, go on an adventure quest, play games, and read stories at this colorful cartoon fantasy site.


Cool Safe Links For Kids, Parents and Teachers
What a collection of links this site has! Some examples: a kid's tour of the White House, Time magazine for kids, a kids' cooking club, Little Explorers (a preschooler's guide to the Web), sports pages, and Keypals Club International. There are magazines for teens that offer entertainment and address important topics, student projects, and kids' home pages. The sites about art, math, science, history, music, social studies, and many other topics will interest adults as well as kids. There are university sites, libraries, and schools on the Web, and many educational sites including homeschooling ones. Check here also for computing help, women's resources, and a chat room for parents.


Teen Court
Teen Court is a program for misdemeanor youthful offenders who have no prior court record, but who admit to guilt and voluntarily agree to participate. Specially trained teenage volunteers fulfill the roles of prosecuting and defense attorneys, clerks, bailiffs, and jurors; an adult judge supervises. Teen Court does not rule on guilt or innocence of the defendants, but determines sentences. Volunteers sometimes include previously sentenced defendants. Defendants who cooperate have a chance to clear their permanent records by performing community service and other duties. Teen Court alleviates the strain on the regular court system, gives offenders a second chance, and gives youths a chance to p articipate in the judicial process. It also promotes better communication between schools, defendants, parents, the community, the court, and the police. Over 200 communities using Teen Court report 90 percent or more of defendants who complete their sentences are never re-arrested. Communities wishing to start their own Teen Courts will find a Procedures Manual, Bylaws, and the necessary legal forms on this web page. Mock trials are given for teens to enact so they can learn how to participate in the court. There are also RealAudio interviews, statistics on juvenile crime, and useful Internet links.


SGT MOM'S
SGT MOM'S is a free service site dedicated to military families. Support and information links for families range from governmental documents to homegrown advice, and address subjects like moving, general parenting, kid safe surfing, and coping with the absence of family members on active duty. The Family Support section offers overseas deployment information, message services, career military spousal networks, military family bulletin boards, an ezine, family advice, employment opportunities, scholarships, senior citizens links, and grief and loss resources. The KIDZ section features fun for preschoolers, links and stories for school-age kids, science and music for preteens, and more. Sgt Mom's Military Bratz Academy has resources for homeschooling and general educational needs. There are chat rooms and keypal connections for active military personnel, veterans, military spouses, and children. And there are more links with recipes, freebies, and family fun.
http://www.sgtmoms.com

Internet For Kids, Inc.
This Web page is a companion to a book of Internet activities by the same title, suitable for middle school kids and older, or perhaps younger kids with supervision. You can read chapters from the book here. This is an easy-to-understand introduction to the Internet with simple explanations and lessons in how to use the WWW. For kids younger than 7, there is a special section, and even a section called "Teach Your Baby to Use the Internet."
http://www.internet-for-kids.com

Interesting Places for Parents
This is a list of links for parents. There are pointers to educational resources, children's software, and pages of interest to parents and teachers. Some of the parenting highlights: The National Parenting Center magazine, misc.kids.computer, children's shareware, resources for children's writers, Movie Mom's Guide to Encouraging Kids to Love Classic Movies, US Space Camp, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, mailing lists and IRC, and special links for dads, adoptive parents, and parents who have lost a child. This website will help parents find children's books, videos, and CD-ROMs. Sites of interest to teachers include NASA educational resources, school publishers, classroom activities, National Public Radio, suggested reading lists for kids, US Department of Education, college sources, EncyclopŠdia Britannica, and Urban Education Web. Other interesting subjects here are how to set up a Web server at school; HTML tutorial for kids and parents; educational uses of the Internet; how to control your kids' access to the Internet using free software; child safety at home, school, and on the Information Highway; and how to get your kids onto the Net. There is also a section on Internet safety and censorship.
http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/parents.html

SuperKids Educational Software Review
This website provides reviews and ratings of children's educational software, by parents, teachers, and the kids themselves. The reviews are indexed, and there is a list of suppliers who have the best prices. The site also features articles on software and education, book reviews, columns, humor, and interviews with leaders in technology development. Some current topics: "Learning Windows and the Child's Brain" on how to take advantage of those developmental periods when a child can best learn a particular ability; and "Computing at Home: what is the appropriate role for parents?" You can also register for a chance to win free software!
http://www.superkids.com

National Parent Information Network
The purpose of NPIN is to provide information to parents and those who work with parents, and to foster the exchange of parenting materials. Here you can find articles like "Help Kids Behave in the Grocery Store," "Buying Shoes for the New School Year," "Use TV to Your Child's Advantage," "How to Get Information from Your Child's School", "Math is Everywhere Contest", "Sports Lift Self-Esteem in Young Athletes," "Long-Term Effects of Absent Fathers," and "Does Moving Have a Harmful Impact on Children?" Resources for parents include newsletters and organizations, The Parenting Calendar, book reviews, brochures, pamphlets, digests, guides, and other materials for parents. There is a parents' question-answering service and an electronic discussion list.


Parents Helping Parents
This public service website has resources for children and adults who need specialized services or care, and their caregivers, educators, and families. There are listserv and newsgroup links for health resources, family forums, and information on children's health, women's issues, adoption, infertility, parenting challenges, housing supports, daycare, child advocacy, children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses, and missing children. People with disabilities will find legal information, entitlement programs, electronic resources, referral services, and special education programs. There is information on assistive technology, facilitated communication through typing, orthotic and prosthetic facilities, adaptive seating and transportation. Some special conditions addressed are Down's syndrome, polio, developmental disabilities, Language Based Learning Disability, Tourette syndrome, Moebius syndrome, dyslexia, muscular dystrophy, hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, cancer, and stroke. PHP Online is a free Telnet service, offering the National Resource Directory that focuses on children with a need for specialized services and their families.
http://www.php.com/

Kids Internet Delight
Gathered here are 116 links to sites worldwide that children and their parents will enjoy. Games, toys, treasure hunts, movies, magazines, crafts projects, mysteries, sports pages, art and writing by kids, and youth consumers' information can be found here. There are educational sites on animals, travel, science, math, literature, art, performing arts, schools, and museums. This web page is a good jumping off place from which kids can explore the Internet.


Baby Bag Online "The In-Site to Parenting"
How can you protect your children from E. coli? What is a labor assistant, and who needs one? Why is umbilical cord blood worth more than gold? Get the answers to these and other parenting questions at this website for prenatal to preschool parents. Find health and safety information, product recalls and alerts, feeding and nutrition, family fun, local and national marketplaces, and online maternity tours. Proud parents can publish birth announcements here and get a card signed by President Clinton. Some articles here are "Communicating With Your Doctor When Your Baby Is Sick"; "Day Care & Food Safety"; "Height & Weight Averages for Children"; "Products to Prevent Birth Defects"; "Arts & Crafts Fun for Small Children: Games, Links, Recipes, Songs and Fingerplays"; "Anesthesia Options for Labor and Delivery"; and "Changing Table Idea From a New Grandmother". Other areas of interest are covered in Kidcare Connection, Recipe Exchange, Parenting Information, Business and Job Opportunities, Pregnancy and Childbirth, and Missing Child Information.
http://www.babybag.com

Child Amputee Home Page
Parents who have a child who is born with a limb difference or who loses a limb in childhood may have a hard time finding information they need. This website was created to help these parents and their children. Some resources you can find here are the SuperKids Newsletter; articles and documents of interest; and I-CAN (Information Child Amputee Network), a mailing list that provides information and support contacts. There are articles with good medical information, and adults who grew up with a limb difference give encouraging and sometimes surprising advice. Through this web page you can also contact the Amputee Information Network, which has information and references for adult amputees.


The Kids Fun Club
This online club is being started by a brother and sister, ages seven and nine, as a place where kids can visit, have fun, exchange ideas, and make friends across the world. Kids are invited to join the club and send ideas, artwork, photos of pets, jokes, favorite recipes, and stories. The kids hosting the site will try out games and give their reviews, as well as inviting other kids to submit their opinions. The kids will list their birthdays in Birthday Roll Call, collect flags from around the world, and enjoy telling stories where each member writes one line.


FamilyWeb
FamilyWeb has comprehensive information on pregnancy, birthing, and baby care. Some prenatal care issues addressed are health care providers, special tests, pregnant lifestyle, common discomforts and problems of pregnancy, breathing techniques, breast care, medicines and drugs, nutrition, and prenatal exercises. There are sketches of a developing child from seven weeks all the way to birth. Some topics covered about the birth itself are getting ready, labor and delivery, the support person, the father, and hospital stay and recovery. After delivery, there are concerns about getting back into shape, family planning, and care and feeding of the baby. The website also makes available very informative FAQs from the misc.kids newsgroups, and birth stories sent in by readers.


PEP: Resources for Parents, Educators and Publishers
"Let's all work together to empower children with technology!" is the motto of this web page. PEP is an informational resource for parents, educators, and children's software publishers. The content of this site has been developed by experts in children's software. The PEP site provides children's software industry news, product reviews, software ratings, and teacher resources. There is a searchable database, and the PEP Registry has 535+ educational software publishers. There are 88 unique URLs, 300 pages of content and over 2,000 links within PEP. The site is updated daily. Some special features are Custom Computers For Kids, Teacher's SourceBook, Computer Recycling, Cool School Sites, Radio Reviews, Shopper Resources, and Computer Calendar. One of the best features of the site is Ask PEP, where parents and teachers can get answers about software for specific children's interests and educational purposes.


Real Kids, Real Adventures
A nine-year old Idaho girl uses her 4-H first aid training to save her father's life after his spooked horse kicks him in the face. A Colorado boy with a learning disability has only hours to absorb complicated pilot lessons when he's trapped in a runaway hot air balloon. Two Texas teens lead the daring river rescue of three small children trapped inside a sinking stationwagon. These true adventure stories are some of the highlights in the Real Kids, Real Adventures series of books. At this web page kids can meet some of the "Real Kids" in the stories, step into the photo gallery to see their pictures, and read behind-the-scenes interviews with them. Children are also invited to send in their own real adventure stories. Young writers will find encouragement here in the Young Writers' Clubhouse, where they can find out about kids who've had books published and learn writing tips from author Deborah Morris. Kids can enter a writing contest, or a drawing for a T-shirt. This page also has many links and valuable resources for teachers. In the Teacher's Lounge educators around the globe can share problems, ideas and war stories, or find connections to other cyberspace teacher's lounges. Rub an Alladin's lamp for a Teacher Genie that might make your wishes come true!
http://www.realkids.com/
"Former Computer Currents columnist Jay Gaines was the driving force behind getting this site up to start with - only one of the many online escapades in which he was involved. The Young Writers' Clubhouse page is dedicated to Jay's memory."

The Adventure Bonding Parenting Page
This lively and sometimes humorous web page, created by a psychologist and his wife who are the parents of nine children, shows how to create happy families through shared adventure. "Children are the hope of the future. Presidents and kings move armies and create the mighty events recorded in history, but you and I, as parents, will determine the course of the human race, one child at a time, depending upon how well we do our jobs . . . Kids are people, not worrisome problems, nor psychological projects. Kids are a lot more fun than you and I-just watch 'em! Parenting should be enjoyable, and family life can be mutual adventure, in which parents and kids (yes, even supposedly-dreadful teenagers) look forward to doing things together . . . Unfortunately, the widespread misapplication of psychological principles endangers an entire generation of children. The Adventure Bonding Page is dedicated to children and parents, and a return to time-honored, common-sense principles of parenting that have served mankind well, for centuries. . . . The parenting forums of the internet are replete with heartbreaking tales of conscientious, well-intended parents with children completely out of control. This will be a location where they can learn to take charge of their parenting problems by trusting their own intuition, and not be told by "experts" to keep doing things that are ineffective. . . . Together, we can reaffirm a parent's role as a benign, loving authority, and the parent-child relationship as the most meaningful, satisfying bond in human relationships."
http://www.imageplaza.com/parenting/

Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
Homeschooling is the fastest growing educational movement in the nation. Parents are turning to this alternative for a variety of reasons including to promote academic achievement, to ensure a wholesome moral and social environment, and to integrate religious or philosophical teachings into academic content. Homeschooling families create their own approaches to education, which may reach back to the time-honored practice of apprenticeship and stretch forward to high-tech approaches like CD-ROM and the Internet. This list of homeschooling links includes newsgroups, mailing lists, gopher sites, BBSs, FAQs, and FQAs (Frequently Questioned Answers). There are web pages of homeschooling organizations and people, and a 900 number hotline. Homeschooling publications include magazines and newsletters for parents, and publications by and for homeschooled kids. Find listings of homeschooling support groups and conferences by state, plus information on homeschooling law, charter schools, children's advocacy groups, and research on the effects of homeschooling. Various educational approaches are presented, including Christian homeschools, Montessori and Catholic programs, and others. Homeschooling families will find useful reading lists, online educational sites, and places to buy books, curricula, CDs and software. There are also reviews of books, programs, and games. There is a connection where homeschooled teens can meet each other, or learn about occupations they are interested in pursuing. Those looking for general educational and parenting resources will find much of interest here too.
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/

KidsNet
Come on in! Meet some new friends - the Rastakans. Their web pages have fun things to see and do. Click on one of those brightly-colored mushrooms and see where it takes you - there are secrets hiding behind all of them. You can visit Super's Studio to see art by kids, or try art projects you can do yourself. In Bamboozle's BookNook there are lists of books, book reviews by kids, and stories. Lightfoot's Software Loft has tips for choosing software, and software reviews. If you like puzzles and games, Paradox's Puzzles is the place for you. Go to Ragamuffin's Raft for interactive adventures, or to Pennywinkle's PetParade where you can share stories, pictures and poems about your pals. In Kudo's KidsKitchen you can find recipes for food, science and art experiments, and other projects. Another thing that's fun at KidsNet - read letters from kids all over the world! There are also some links for parents.


ACEKids
ACEKids is a friendly, kid-safe place with over 1,000 links to other such places, useful information for parents, and lots of original content that changes all the time. Sponsored by the Academic Center for Excellence, Inc., this website presents ways to make learning fun through interactive computer software. There are educational software reviews, a list of web sites for software companies, and a free CD-ROM trading service. This site also offers a newsletter, and email family computer consulting. There are stories by and for kids, homework helpers, kids' home pages, a science fiction adventure, challenging contests, and games, plus links for fun, research resources, sports, education, and general information.


The Daycare Page
"How do I select a daycare provider? What do I do if my child clings and cries in the morning? How can I make sure my child is eating right at daycare?" This web page is provided by the National Daycare Alliance as a resource for working parents and daycare providers. Parents can search a database to find a local daycare provider, get tips on how to find a service that fits their needs, and ask questions of experienced parents and daycare workers. The Daycare Information Pipeline provides updates on pending legislation and other news items. Daycare providers will find a place to list their services, a list of related World Wide Web resources, information on group insurance, and an upcoming forum where they can share tips, tricks, and antecdotes.


The Cartoon Corner
The Cartoon Corner is a safe and fun place for kids of all ages to play games, solve puzzles, read stories and comics, learn to draw cartoons, and laugh at jokes and wacky weather forecasts. This website contains over 500 interactive pages with more than 1,000 illustrations by cartoonist Emmett Scott. There are artist lessons and drawing tricks, and a funny pages section where kids can read comics and try writing their own comic strips or punchlines. Children can have hours of fun with the creative play and craft ideas. There are one-minute stories, longer stories, and poems to enjoy. The brain-challenging riddles and puzzles give inquisitive kids a chance to test their powers of memory and observation, and their skill with words, logic, and solving mysteries. The site also includes Internet safety tips for parents and children.
http://www.cartooncorner.com

Interesting Places for Kids
This website is a great collection of links to help young children and teens explore the World Wide Web. Some links offer help with computers and the Internet, and a chance to visit web pages set up by kids or with children's art and writing. There are music, art and literature sites, with museums, libraries, and other exhibits. There are science and math and other educational sites. There are links for toys, games, and crafts; movies and TV shows; and other places to go and things to see. Parents will be interested in finding "kid-safe" web pages and search engines. Kids can find pen pals or key pals around the world; ask questions of experts in computer and other subjects; and give feedback on their own interests. There are complete books available at various sites, and kids can visit school home pages to find out about the activities of other children.


Charmayne's Kids' Stuff
What's grey and has a trunk? (A mouse going on vacation.) What's brown and has a trunk? (A mouse coming home from vacation.) This web page has poems, riddles and jokes for children. There are links to pages made by kids, encouraging them to share their efforts with each other and the world. There are also links to fun pages for kids. There's even a recipe for Flubber!