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right direction. America Online's
Kid's Only area (keyword: kids) and
Yahoo's child-friendly site, Yahooli-
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great places to begin.
No matter how your child gets to
a certain Web page, it's always a good
idea to monitor their progress.
Learn2.com (www.learn2.com ), for
instance, is a highly touted educa-
tional Web site, but you might not
want your 9-year-old visiting too
often.
Amid helpful tips on how to write
your congressperson and how to
avoid repetitive stress disorder, this
site also offers advice on beating
hangovers and coping with hemor-
rhoids. Learn2.com's cheeky humor is
geared toward high school- and col-
lege-age students, not your fourth-
grader.
The Kids Did This! Hotlist
(sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists) is for the
younger set, but it, too, poses sensi-
tive issues for parents. This site
includes hundreds of kid-generated
reports - including papers on the
American Revolution written by
Mr. Welch's seventh-grade Social
Studies Class - but your unsuper-
vised child might be all too tempt-
ed to download and copy someone
else's work.
The Family Education Network
(www.familyeducation.com) does a
good job of bundling information
and activities for both parents and
children. This constantly updated site
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students to do better in math.
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showers kids with brain teasers and
homework tips, but it also recognizes
that parents can use help when it
comes to raising their children.
Weekly features cover health and safe-
ty issues, legislative news that affect
your youngster's education and
changes in school policies that might
not have come up at last month's
PTA meeting.
The Parent to Parent Digital Dia-
log is also nice, as it allows parents to
participate in polls - sample ques-
tions: "Do kids need more time to be
kids?" and "Should we invite the
teacher over for dinner?" And because
the Internet grants users a certain
amount of anonymity, you are more
likely to get honest answers from
your chat-mates in cyberspace than
you would from your next-door
neighbor.
Kids grow up learning about the
Pilgrims and Christopher Columbus
and George Washington, but very
often schools scrimp on contempo-
rary issues that affect their lives. Poli-
tics Now Classroom (www.pnclass-
room.com) allows parents to address
this educational gap by introducing
them to kid-friendly, academic per-
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