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Adoption & Foster Care  |  Child Advocacy & Welfare
Child Rearing | Computers & The Internet  |  Missing Children
Movie Reviews  |  Summer Camps  |  Youth / Sports

 

Adoption & Foster Care

Adoption.com

ARIA: Association for Research in International Adoption

Child Welfare Information Gateway
A huge amount of information from the federal government, including a national adoption directory, resource guides on adoption and out of home (foster) care. Includes links to many national organizations.

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

New Jersey Foster & Adoption Services

Child Advocacy & Welfare

Association for Children of New Jersey

Child Welfare Information Gateway
>From the federal government: "access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families." In addition to adoption resources, this site highlights child abuse prevention and family education and support.


Child Welfare League of America

Children's Defense Fund

National PTA

New Jersey Department of Children & Families

New Jersey PTA

 
Child Rearing

Baby Center
For new and expectant parents, this site from Johnson & Johnson focuses exclusively on pregnancy and early childhood issues. Their sister site, ParentCenter.com is for parents of children age 2-8.

Babynamer
Find the meaning and origin of names, the most popular names, or choose a name from lists of sports figures, entertainers, and other notables from their database of over 21,000 names.

Children's Health

FamilyFun.com
This site from Disney Online offers lots of practical ideas and tips on raising kids, as well as fun stuff like the Disney Thrill Seeker, a parent's guide to the rides at Disney Parks.

iVillage Pregnancy & Parenting (formerly Parent Soup)
Packed with information and a lot of useful features, this is a well-organized and easy to use site from iVillage.com that is definitely worth a look.

National Parenting Center
Features articles written by parenting experts, and the "Seal of Approval Product Testing Reports", which reviews products and services for kids and parents..

ParenthoodWeb.com
Features parenting discussion boards, live chats, book reviews and recommendations, plus family safety and product recall information. See also Parenthood.com for articles, reviews and ratings of other websites.

Think! Baby Names
Baby names reference on the origin, meaning, and history of names for boys and girls. Includes statistics of name trends based on data from the SSA.   

Zero to Three
Information for parents and professionals on the first three years of life from the national, non-profit organization Zero to Three. A special section called "Brain Wonders", talks about how the brain of a newborn develops.

 

Computers & The Internet

Children's Literature Web Guide
Links to children's book reviews, book awards, recommended book lists, online
children's stories, author's websites, and other web resources related to books
for children and young adults.

Computers -- Security and Tech Support

Great Websites for Kids
The American Library Association's lists of selected sites for children and parents.

SafeKids.com
"Your family's guide to making the Internet and technology fun, safe and productive."

Superkids Educational Software Review  
Reviews and ratings of educational software. The reviews are written by teams
of educators, parents and children from across the United States.

Missing Children

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Movie Reviews

Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
Provides in-depth movie reviews on various aspects such as violence, sexual content, profanity, imitative behavior, etc.

Kids-In-Mind
Large database of movies and video reviews tailored for parents with non- critical assessments of potentially objectionable material contained in the movies.

 

Summer Camps

American Camping Association
Helpful advice regarding how to choose a camp, what to pack, coping at camp, and more.

Frost's Summer Camp Guide

Kids' Camps

National Camp Association, Inc.

 

Youth Sports Coaching & Safety

For local teams and individual sports, see  Kid stuff in Sports

American Sports Education Program

Little League Online
Coaching tips.

National Youth Sports Safety Foundation
National, nonprofit, educational organization focuses on injury prevention, emergency plans, individual risk factors, and coaching education.

 

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