Parent Resources
 Parent Internet Resources |
LD Onine is the world's leading web site on learning disabilities and ADHD, LD OnLine seeks to help children and adults reach their full potential by providing accurate and up-to-date information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHD. URL:http://www.ldonline.org/
Pros: The site features hundreds of helpful articles, monthly columns by noted experts, first person essays, children's writing and artwork, a comprehensive resource guide, very active forums, and a Yellow Pages referral directory of professionals, schools, and products.
Cons: specificlly directed to students with disabilities
MNet's foundation program examines a wide range of media, including television, film, video games, newspapers, advertising and popular music. This site informs teachers, parents and students about cyber saftey.
URL:http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
Pros: The Parents section of our site offers tips for talking to kids about the media, and advice on managing media use in the home. The Educators section includes teaching units and supporting materials designed to Canadian provincial media education outcomes for grades K-12. The Media Issues section examines media-related topics such as stereotyping, violence, privacy, marketing to children, the portrayal of diversity in the media, and online hate.
Cons: Younger students will need supervision as they go through the site.
Fun, Fun and more fun at Nick Jr's. Nickelodeon has created a site with parents of small ones in mind. Here at Nick Jr's, parents and the little ones can find engaging activites to spend quality time while learning how to use the internet for exploring interactive activities on a site that promises safe and healthy fun. This site features; Healthy Kids, Flicks for Kids, podcasting, parenting features, and parents T.V.. URL: http://www.nickjr.com/
Pros: Children will love that they will find their favorite cartoon characters such as Blues Clues, Dora the Explorer and the Backyardigans.
Cons: This site is rated 3 to 7 years of age.
Pros: Activity worksheets and educational activites are easy to print and download.
Cons: lots of clicking to get to various activities.
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/parents/index.html
Pros:The vivid graphics on this site capture your attention and sustain your children to play here for hours.
Cons: Clicking on the Mc Donald's Happy Meal or Hello Kitty will get you stuck at that site. The back button will not return you to Funbrain.
Sites for Parents contains over twenty pages of links to educational , health, or any topic concerning children. These sites are rated and organized by the most popular to the least popular. URL: http://www.sitesforparents.com/
Pros: Contains only links to sites that have an emphasis on parenting and the sites are ranked by popularity. No more surfing countless pages to find the occasional "good" site. Also, sitesforparents.com doesn't just allow any site on the list. sitesforparents.com has strict rules for the listed webmasters.
Cons: Lots of sites to look at.
Funschool
Parents will have a funtime interacting with their little ones from preschool age to 6th grade at this site. Funschool will engage your child in educational activities to put them at the the head of their class. URL:http://funschool.kaboose.com/parent-teacher/index.html
Pros: Sections are broken up by age groups preschool, kidergarten to 2nd grade, 3rd to 4th grade, and 5th to 6th grade. Teachers and parents will also find links to special sites just for them.
Cons: All links are contained to the Kaboose site family. Tweens might find this a boring place to hang out.
