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The After School Snacks Parent Portal, a special place designed to support parents with even more resources, articles, and tips.

The Better Homes and Gardens Magazine Family section offers articles and tips on everything from health and nutrition to family dynamics to helping kids be successful at school.

KidSource On-line is sponsored by fathermag.com, the on-line magazine for men with children. This site­—which is for mothers as well—has an impressively comprehensive selection of articles on parenting, health, education, and childhood development.

The stories on The Real Mom Club site are funny and real at the same time—just what the everyday mom needs to relieve some of that stress.

Parenting and Pregnancy at iVillage is a multiple award-winning site with numerous articles on nearly every imaginable aspect of parenting.

Family Corner online magazine offers lots of craft and recipe ideas as well as an extensive collection of parenting articles.  It includes a well-frequented message board encompassing a wide array of topics.

Zero to Three focuses on the first years of life and is a great resource for parents and anyone in the field of child advocacy.

Miserly Moms offers budgeting ideas and inspirations for stay-at-home moms, always within the context of its main goal: increasing quality family time.

The Family Education site focuses on the relationship between home and school.  A terrific feature is its organization of articles into three categories:  pre-K - 2, 3 - 5, and 6 - 12.

Kinderstart is the largest indexed directory and search engine on the Internet that focuses on children ages 0 to 7. 

International MOMS Club is a nationwide support group for at-home mothers with over 1,500 chapters and more than 75,000 members across the United States.

Education

California Association for the Gifted has 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.

The Gifted Children newsletter provides parents of children with great promise, insights in the identification, encouragement, and development of gifted children.

Health

At www.thebreastcancersite.com corporate sponsors/advertisers donate free mammograms to underprivileged woman in exchange for the advertising. To impact someone’s life at a click of a button, simply go to the above site and click the pink window "Fund Free Mammograms".

The U.S. National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest medical library, and the public may search its extensive data base of articles free of charge.

Meals and Nutrition

My Online Meals While trying to be sensitive to price and convenience each week, you  will receive your answer to “What’s for dinner?” -- including easy-to-follow recipes, a weekly shopping list organized by department, and cooking and time-saving tips.

Soy Online Service offers cautionary information that contradicts current media advertising on the use of soy.

The WebMDHealth Health and Nutrition Center offers an extensive database of articles as well as a message board on health and wellness issues.

Pregnancy

Fit Yummy Mummy Discover the Secret Method Busy Moms Are Using to Burn the Lingering “Baby Fat” and Get Their Body Back with Fun, Fast Sessions You Can Do in Your Living Room.

Pregnancy and Parenting at iVillage focuses on all aspects of pregnancy, enhanced with an on-line chat forum.

The WebMDHealth Pregnancy and Family Center contains a large database of articles on getting pregnant, pregnancy, and parenting.

AskBaby provides information relating to getting pregnant, being pregnant and parenting. You'll find everything from medical advice to baby names to reviews of baby items.

At Your Baby Today, find lots of useful advice—everything from nutrition guides to fitness ideas to checklists to make sure you and baby have everything you need.

Toys, educational materials, and activities

Family Fun focuses on crafts, recipes, and all-around fun stuff for families to do together.

If you are a serious toy collector, visit Cool Toys for everything from Burger King kids' meal toys to Disney collectibles.

The Disney site has an interactive format with lots of kid activities.

Lillian Vernon has neat toys and decorations for kids as well as household items. This is also a great source for Halloween costumes!

The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio is an independent, on-line guide to children's toys, videos, books, audio, and software.

The Activity Idea Place contains a huge variety of fun kids’ activities—many seasonal and theme-based—as well as many parenting articles.

World Wide Web

At SurfNetKids, newspaper columnist Barbara J. Feldman surfs in search of the most wonderful sites on the Web for kids and organizes them into a comprehensive directory.  Subscribe to her free newsletter to get a weekly update.

The staff at KidSites searches the Web for the best kid sites.  Each site is approved by the staff before being included in their listings.

At Great Web Sites for Kids, the American Library Association offers their selections of best sites and categorizes them into Pre K, Elementary, and Middle School.

Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800 + outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format. You can search by grade level, topic, and more.  A free newsletter brings you five new additions weekly.

The U.S. government’s Kids' Portal provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations, all grouped by subject.

Kids’ Search Tools includes over a dozen search tools that will produce safe, recommended Web sites for children.

Books

Children’s Book Awards contains a comprehensive compilation of U.S. and international English-language children’s book awards in an easy-to-use format.

Booklist, a division of the American Library Association, offers their new Nonfiction Series Roundup where you can search for books by subject or age:  young (PreK-Gr 2), middle Gr 2-6), or older (Gr 6 and up).  Your search will yield a list of titles, each of which can be clicked for a review and other information.

The Big Red Book of Children's Crafts showcases 101 fun and easy arts and crafts projects for ages 3 - 6.

Other

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