A nice initiative from the writers and illustrators at Astrapi, a leading children’s magazine for the 9 to 11 year old crowd, in the country that invented the concept 30 years ago: France, with Bayard Presse Publishing. Lulu, one of the star characters in a cartoon in the magazine, now has her blog!
Its truly fascinating […]
E-Enfance is an association with a superb web site and blog and a new TV campaign here in France that seeks to inform the public of the dangers of letting children surf the Net without adult supervision. Far from representing a rejection of the Web, they embrace this technology, but simply wish to see […]
Have you given real thought to what your seven year old might stumble upon when peforming an Internet search for the world ‘ girl’, if she was looking for images of little girls to decorate a birthday party invitation? How about famous cartoon caracters that are used to attract them to sites having nothing to […]
* One is the YummymummyCareers site out of Canada (my home and not native land)
Based on the great idea that moms who dropped out of work to better care for their children ( and keep some sanity on their lives) may just feel the need to go back to wortk after the wee years of their children (say till age 3) have passed, this site offers jobs targeted to them - which do NOT include changing diapers.
* Other piece of news is I’ve noticed the San Francisco Chronicle site has a blog for parents, very humourously called The Poop!
I just posted a question on educational products for kids in Yahoo Answers. Pretty neat, I must say! I’m jealous of course as the one behind the Frenchparents site, because my first goal in creating this platform was to enable parents ( like me) to easily find answers to questions they had on raising and caring for their children, from birth to adolescence. This is the member-only Recommendations area of the site.
