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BlogSafety Forum
http://www.blogsafety.com/
BlogSafety Forum
Welcome to the BlogSafety.com forum, where parents, teens, educators, and experts discuss and learn about safe blogging and social networking. You might call this social networking about the social networks!
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Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens
http://cyber-safe-kids.com/
Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens
Essential strategies to keep children and teens safe online.
In Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, Internet safety expert Nancy Willard provides you with need-to-know information about those online dangers and gives you the practical parenting strategies necessary to help children and teens learn to use the Internet safely and responsibly.
Free booklets for parents and teens.
Parent - Teen Internet Use Agreement
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Pediacast: A Pediatric Podcast For Parents
http://www.pediascribe.com/podcast/
Pediacast: A Pediatric Podcast For Parents
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Courses Online Specifically for Parents
http://www.pta.org/local_leadership_program_1117205733828.html
Courses Online Specifically for Parents
| Conflict Management | Planning and Goal Setting | Grant Writing | The Platinum Rule | the PTAStyles Leadership Assessment | and | new in 2005 | PTA Basics | Leading a PTA Unit | Operating a Successful PTA Program | and How to Be an Effective Advocate for Your School |
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National Character Education Center : Parents Page
http://www.ethicsusa.com/parents.cfm
National Character Education Center : Parents Page (USA)
All successful school based Ethics Programs not only have parent support but often include direct parental involvement. In some cases it was through parent involvement that a program was initiated. See the links below for resources and ideas to help you get involved
Parenting Tips for Promoting Character | Comprehensive Parental Participation Program | 94 Objectives in the Parent Participation Program | Strengthening Character in your Kids | Your Greatest Response Responsibility | The Five Ps of Raising Responsible Children | Seven Habits of Effective Parenting | Fifteen Principles of Positive Parenting | Ten Rules for Discipline | Fifteen principles of Positive Parenting | Five Steps to Disciplining Your Kids |
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Welcome to The Parent Centre (UK)
http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/
The Parent Centre is for all parents and carers who want to help their child or children to learn. It is here to offer you support, information and advice about your child's learning and the English education system.
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Help Your Child Discover
http://www.parentcentre.gov.uk/discover/
The Help Your Child Discover... series of leaflets has been designed to support you in helping your child with their school work.
If you would like to print out a whole leaflet for any subject, click on print and customise options then select the topic you are interested in.
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Parents Information Network (PIN) .. UK
http://www.pin.org.uk/
Parents Information Network (PIN) .. UK
Parents Information Network (PIN) is an independent service established in 1994 providing a wide range of guidance on computers and education for parents with children of toddler age through to 18.
| software and website evaluation | computers and young children | parental guidance | staying safe on the internet | homework | learning at home |
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Parents Online (UK)
http://www.parentsonline.gov.uk/
Parents Online - showing parents the benefits of the internet.
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Help for Parents in Australia
http://www.education.gov.au/cgi-bin/ednabrowse.cgi?id=20279
Help for Parents in Australia
Education & Your Child - Contains information about literacy, numeracy, starting school and links to Education Department pages for parents.
Children With Special Needs - Information about students with learning disabilities, dyslexia, and who are gifted and talented.
Out of School Care - Includes childcare centres, after-school care and holiday programs.
Youth Issues - Information about issues such as suicide, drug education, bullying and child safety.
Transition to Further Education - Contains pages for parents with advice about further education and pages from universities.
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Facts for Families
http://www.aacap.org/web/aacap/publications/factsfam/
Facts for Families
Abuse (physical) Abuse (sexual) | ADHD | Adoption | Adolescent Development | Advocacy | AIDS | Alcohol | Anxiety | Asperger's | Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity | Autism | Bedwetting | Bipolar Disorder | Bowel Control | Bullying | Chronic Physical Illness | Conduct Disorders | Continuum of Care | Daycare | Depression | Disaster | Discipline | Divorce | Driving | Drug Abuse | Eating Disorders | Enuresis | Fighting and Biting | Firearms | Fostercare | Gay And Lesbian Teens | Grandparenting | Grief | Guns | Hospital Treatment | Internet and Children | Latchkey Children | Lead Poisoning | Learning Disabilities | Lying | Manic Depression | Medications | Mental Illness (talking about) | Mental Retardation | Moving | Multiracial Children | Music/Music Videos | News Programs | Normal Adolescent Development | Normality | Obesity | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Online Children | Oppositional Defiant Disorder | Panic Disorder | Parenting | Parents (alcoholic) | Parents (mentally ill) | Pets | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | Pregnancy (teen) | Psychiatric Evaluation | Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent | Psychotherapy | PTSD | Referrals | Schizophrenia | School Services | School Refusal | Seeking Help | Self-Injury | Separation Anxiety | Sex (talking about) | Sexual Abuse | Sleep Problems | Soiling | Sports | Starting School | Stealing | Step Families | Stress | Substance Abuse Treatment | Suicide | Television | Threats | Tics | Tobacco | Tourette's | Violent Behavior | Violence on Television |
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Parents' Centre ( UK DfES )
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/parents/
Explains the structure and organisation of children's education and how you can help.
parent | parents |
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Alexa Websearch : Top Parenting Sites
http://info.alexa.com/data/destination_site/traffic_rankings?ft=Parenting
This is a search engine that ranks websites ... and they have a section called "Top Parenting"
At the time of putting this link on Shambles the top listed sites were:
Parenting.com : Read articles, read expert questions and answers, or explore other parenting tips and resources.
Parent Soup : Consult the experts on parenting, chat with other single moms online, post your questions on the messsage boards.
ParenthoodWeb : Information for parents that the experts forgot to mention.
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GridClub for Parents
http://www.gridclub.com/external/index.html?www.dfee.gov.uk/parents/discover/
The Help Your Child Discover... series of leaflets has been designed to support you in helping your child with their school work.
Please select a subject from those available at the top of the screen.
If you would like to print out a whole leaflet for any subject, click on print and customise options then select the topic you are interested in.
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50 great sites for kids & parents
http://www.ssdesign.com/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
Links identified by the American Library Association
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A Parents Guide to the Internet
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet
A Parents Guide to the Internet ... includes some useful links!
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Learning Network (FunBrain)
http://www.funbrain.com/parents/index.html
Parent Quizzes | What's on your Child's Mind? | Parent-Kid Challenges | Find the perfect game for your child to play | News and trends that affect your family | Tips and resources to help you in your parenting | Learn how to manage your money | Ideas from Parents | Help with homework and school |
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Help your child revise smarter
http://www.smartown.com/vc-cgi-asp/content/parent/reallife/Oct06-helpYourChildRevise-1.asp
Before you tear your hair about the exams around the corner -- the parent invariably bears the burden of the child's revision -- know your child's learning style.
Each person has a different way of absorbing information. And knowing the child's learning style will keep both parent and child less frazzled.
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Einsteinonline (UK Daily Lesson Plans)
http://www.einsteinonline.co.uk/mainframe.asp
Welcome to Einsteinonline, the highly interactive educational learning experience for children between the ages of 4 and 11.
If you're a parent or carer you can rest assured in the knowledge that this daily structured learning programme follows the criteria established by the National Curriculum, and that your child is entering a safe, secure environment in which they will learn in small, incremental steps, and be praised and encouraged throughout their time with us. Also, at the end of the year you will receive a report detailing their progress throughout the year.
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Smartown
http://www.smartown.com/vc-cgi-asp/content/parent/main.asp
We give you articles that help you help your child or pupil. For instance, How to raise a bright child. Are boys really better at Maths? Why are we doing this? Bottomline: Teachers are the ultimate guide in school. Parents must answer for their children's schooling. And, goodness knows, we could use some help!
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Scottish Parent Teacher Council
http://www.sol.co.uk/s/sptc/addadvice.html
Setting up a PTA/PA - four easy stages | Fundraising ideas for PTAs and PAs | A simple guide to money matters | Good Practice for Committee Meetings | Constitutions Made Easy | Charities, Constitutions and Confusion | Devolved School Management explained | Talk About Bullying |
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ParentLine Plus
http://www.parentlineplus.org.uk/
Offers help and information to over 85,000 parents and families each year.
Works to ensure that families have access to good quality support and information.
Develops innovative projects working with children and adults to see how we can best support them when they experience changes to their families such as divorce and separation.
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The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
http://www.ace-ed.org.uk/
On this site, you will find news and information specifically for parents, school governors and teachers. ACE produce many useful leaflets and publications which are available to buy through the Publications Page.
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Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/
With over two hundred component pages (1.3 meg of HTML), it's one of the largest homeschooling sites on the Web. But what I find most gratifying is that it remains one of the most popular homeschooling sites on the Web, with over a thousand incoming links and hundreds of visitors a day.
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America Links Up
http://www.netparents.org/
A Kids Online Teach-In is a public awareness and education campaign sponsored by a broad-based coalition of non-profits, education groups, and corporations concerned with providing children with a safe and rewarding experience online.
This site contains a number of valuable resources for parents and kids.
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Safe surfing for the family
http://www.pin.org.uk/learning/safeindx.htm
We are very aware of the issues of safety and security for families using the Internet. Our feedback from parents indicates that the majority feel the benefits of using the Internet outweigh the potential dangers but we do not believe in ignoring the dangers as you will read here.
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Homework and computers: setting the scene
http://www.pin.org.uk/homework/index2.htm
Homework, an important link in children's lives between school and home, is often seen by both parents and children as one of those unpleasant daily chores. But there are many ways computers can change and enhance the way children and young people work and learn at home.
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Parents Magazine (UK)
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/parentsmag/
A new FREE magazine that addresses topical issues of interest to parents.
This first edition looks at issues like bullying, starting school, literacy, numeracy, and using the internet safely.
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Parents Online (UK Initiative)
http://www.parentsonline.gov.uk
Parents OnLine (UK) ... Its purpose is twofold - to strengthen home-school learning partnerships and show parents the educational benefits of the Internet.
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Parents' Website (UK)
http://www.parents.dfee.gov.uk
A School Search already lets parents find information about their local (UK)schools, and they can tap into information from the British Tourist Authority to find educational places to go for a day out. The site also lets parents search for educational resources on the net
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Kidz Privacy
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html
"Kidz Privacy" helps children, parents, & web site operators understand the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act & how the new law will affect them. Resources available on the site include "smart surfing" tips for kids & guides for businesses & parents.
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The Mom Zone
http://members.home.com/thekidszone/MomZone.html
Welcome to The Mom Zone, the zone for moms by moms. The goal of this zone is to empower, educate and inform parents about what is happening in our childrens world.
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Helping Your Child Series
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/hyc.html
Help your child ....
This offers help in many many areas!
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UK Information
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/elected/key.shtml
This zone will help parents keep in touch with the latest key UK publications and guidance relating to standards in education.
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Stop'em Product Information
http://jelsoft.com/products/stopem/
Stop'em is the perfect software package for parents, who wish to prevent their children from altering system settings. It is also useful for businesses, who are concerned that employees are changing important system settings.
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Parent Tech
http://www.parentech.org/
"Parent Tech" provides resources for families & educators of middle school children. The site includes interviews with high-tech professionals, educators, & families about how they are using technology & a "Discussion Corner" where visitor s can participate in an online forum on technology.
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Summer computer camps
http://www.computercamp.com
ACE (the world leader in technology education for kids) runs week-long summer computer camps at 80 top college campuses nationwide including Stanford, MIT, Bryn Mawr and Rice. ACE offers computer instruction at all ability levels for boys and girls ag es 7-16. Campers choose between our Programming or General Curriculum as well as learn about the Internet, web page design, video editing, 3D modeling and animation and more! Campers may register for day or overnight stay and attend multiple weeks wit hout repetition.
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Parents Online
http://www.parents.org.uk/
Welcome to Parents Online, the new web site to help parents with children through their primary school years. The Parents Online team is available to help with your questions. If your query is outside our own expertise and experience, we will try to sugge st other internet sites that may have more information
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Parents Information Network
http://www.pin-parents.com/
PIN is an independent organisation established in 1994 to provide information and advice to parents about the role of computers in their children's education. PIN believes it is vital for parents to have an understanding of how they can support their chil dren in this new and powerful area of learning. To this end, PIN also works with teachers who wish to extend support to parents in the rapidly growing area of computers and education.
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Parenting OnLine
http://www.parentingonline.com/
This site is managed by "CyberMom" ..... it is her "Passion to help parents get their Web feet wet"
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Family Guide Book
http://www.familyguidebook.com/
Understanding risks in cyberspace ... a site that rates the "safety" of sites for children to visit.
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Family Education E Network
http://www.familyeducation.com/home/
Our parent community dedicated to children's learning is an award-winning site that connects parents with information, with experts, and with each other to create a supportive and engaging community.
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Parents Guide to the Internet
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet/
Produced by the US department of education this comprehensive guide includes information on safety, a glossary and information on supporting school use of technology.
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DfEE (UK) Parents' Centre
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/parents/
This site tells you about your child's education and how you can help ........ Choose In School for what your child is learning, how they are tested, and school admin / Choose Out of School for admissions, health and welfare, and learning at home /
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America Reads Challenge:
http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/resourcekit/
"America Reads Challenge: Read*Write*Now Resource Kit" can help you organize an effort to make sure that all children in your community (through the 6th grade) learn to read & write well. The online kit provides reading & writing activities, directories of helpful organizations, & more. The kit also suggests ways to form partnerships among parents, schools, local businesses, & the community.
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What is the Internet
http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/~edu/technology/what_net.htm
What is the internet ..... I guess, though, that if you have got as far as reading this message then you already have a good idea!
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Switched on Students
http://www.leonet.co.uk/switched/
Schools / Libraries / Forums / LEA Support / Museums / Special Needs / Projects / Teachers / Education at Home
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Homework Heaven
http://www.homeworkheaven.com
..... more help ... to help with that homework! ...... over 150,000 links (don't stay up all night!)
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The Internet Subject Catalogue
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/catalogs.htm#subject
An annotated selection of Internet sites .... not a bad starting point for helping with homework !
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K-12 World
http://www.k-12world.com/home.html
Over 2,000 links to quality educational sites and resources ....including a cyber-library
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