UT Parent

Directory of many sites related to parenting, including sites for stepparents, single parents, losing a parent, many more. Gives topic of site with link to the site itself, no fee for use.

Acne Regimen

One man details his regimen for treating acne. This site was sent in by a visitor. Could be helpful to adolescents battling this difficult problem.

Aspen Youth

Aspen Youth offers a variety of residential programs for children aged 9-25. The site is attractive and well-organized and they even offer an application online.

athomedad.com

Part of the ParentsPlace.com Village sites. Peter Baylies runs this site; he's an " at home dad" and offers resources for others. You can sign up for his newsletter by clicking here.

Bellaonline

Site intended to meet women's needs for information online. Contains a "family/parenting" section, but also many others links of interest to women with careers outside and inside the home.

Bullyproofing Schools

Excellent discussion of issues involved in bullying at school and how to overcome bullying.

Black Families

Site specialized to meet the parenting, actvitity, information needs of African- American families. Somewhat commercial but appears useful.

Buzzed

The web site promoting the book by the same name, reviewed on this site. The authors are researchers at Duke University, . The book offers facts on drugs, from alcohol to ecstasy, as substantiated by clinical research. See the review on the Readings page. The web site lets you read an intro to the book and correspond with the authors: they will answer any questions about drugs/alcohol sent in e-mail messages to them. This could be a very valuable resource. This site considers the book a Parenting Adolescents Outstanding Selection.

Colage

Bills itself as "the best--oh, all right, the only" site on the web devoted to supporting the children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered parents. Appears to be wholesome, on the up-and-up, offers info to the public and to researchers, support features for kids.

Dads and Daughters

Much good information and helpful tips for improving and maintaining the relationship between fathers and their daughters. A not-for-profit site, offers links to other resources and tons of helpful facts. Highly recommended.

Depression.org

Resources and information about depression. Site of the National Association for Depressive Illness. Excellent resource for anyone with the illness or who lives or knows someone with the illness.

Families Online

Lots of information and resources for families with young children--and especially for families with young children who live in the U.K. Nicely separates general-info portions from locally-applicable information on their "Contents" page.

Family Diversity Projects

Family Diversity Projects, Inc., is a non-profit organization that devotes itself to educating people--students, parents, teachers, religious leaders--about diversity. They try to help eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on persons' religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or mental/physical abilities. They offer several award-winning photo-text exhibits that can travel--you can ask them to your school, church, library, conference, or other venue. Some of the projects are: "Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families," "Love Makes a Family: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered People and Their Families," "Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family," et al.

fastWEB

fastWEB calls itself the Internet's largest free college scholarship search service. It claimed to be indexing 400,000 scholarship sources on the day we accessed it (3/13/99). You set up a personal mailbox, and they send you updated scholarship news. A real service, and it's free, unlike some other web scholarship search engines.

Fun: Bug Recipes!

Fun for kids at that certain "I love gore" stage... site featured on Jay Leno's show gives recipes using insects as food... Try some "Banana Worm Bread"?

Half the Planet

Great collection of helpful information for that half of the planet's population that have some kind of disability.

Click here to visit Interactive Parent - find ideas, interaction and inspiration for moms and dads, from pregnancy and on throughout your adventure of parenting. Don't miss the free day-by-day baby calendar!  

iCONNECT A wonderful resource for kids going through divorce.....run by U of Illinois. Kids can read what others are going through, search for information on their specific issue, post their stories. There is space for live chat. Sophisticated graphics. Great resource!

kidseq.com

Focuses on "emotional literacy, " offers free downloads of emotion-based activity books for children, article on "emotional literacy," and links to related sites.

LD ONLINE

Resource for kids with learning disabilities, their parents, and teachers. See also: Facts for Families, ADOL.

Mega-Math

A site run Los Alamos Laboratories (hence the "gov" connection), with colorful, beautiful demonstrations/explanations of things like graphs, knots, etc. Beautifully done and a lot of fun, but the bad news is, no one is maintaining this site anymore, so you can't interact with the people who run it, because they're not running it anymore. "Sad but true," as the page states. Still, if your teen likes (or hates) math, they could do worse than check out this site.

ePregnancy - Pregnancy articles, interactive tools, message boards and more!  

Sex Etc.

A not-for-profit site sponsored by many organizations and foundations, dedicated to supplying teens with accurate information about sex, as well as answers to their questions. Section for parents/other adults, book reviews, articles.

teenwire

Reliable sexual information and advice for teens and pre-teens. Parents may wish to check out the site before referring teens, so they know what is offered. The information is all professional and presented in a format appealing to teens. Recommended.

Court Tv: Choices

Helps teens learn to make choices in moral/ethical situations; includes snippets of teens on television show.

Click here to visit Myria - a weekly magazine just for moms! Find articles about parenting, your love life, health, style, money, home and work and more -- and meet other parents on the message boards.  

Alan Guttmacher Institute

A site of interest to parents and older teens, or teens doing research on sexuality, birth/contraception. Lots of statistics on sexual behavior, birth, around the world, info on contraception.

Starbright

A web site for teens/pre-teens who have serious, chronic illness, and their parents/caregivers.

Especially neat is that they offer videos about being an ill teenager, made by the teenagers themselves. Two videos, each 15 minutes, are said to be both " credible" and "entertaining" in advising how to cope with illness, doctors, hospitals, living life to the fullest even though ill. The two videos are called, "Plastic Eggs or Something!?:Cracking Hospital Life," and, "What Am I, Chopped Liver? " They are free to seriously, chronically ill teens and their families. There's also plenty else to do at the sight--lots of info. It's a project chaired by Steven Spielberg and Norman Schwarzkopf.

StepFamily Support LINKS:

Stepfamily Association of America
The Stepfamily Association of America provides information, education, and advocacy for stepfamilies and those who work with them. They develop and disseminate research- based information and materials; design, implement, and evaluate educational opportunities; evaluate and recommend materials, programs, and standards of practice; and advocate for financial, institutional, political, and social changes that support stepfamilies.

StepfamilyNetwork

This site offers informational/educational articles about being part of a stepfamily, including first-person narratives, as well as referrals to support sources in different States. They also feature a Question of the Month, although the answer to the presented question is not signed by anyone specific, so you don't know the qualifications of the person who supplied the response. [For Karen Martin's qualifications and 'Statement of Beliefs,' click here.] See the next resource, below.

Stepmoms Network

Specifically for stepmothers, this site includes message boards, artaicles, chat rooms, resources for stepkids. Part of a ring of stepfamily and other family resources sites.

Stepparenting Connection

"Therapist's Corner" offers opportunity to send in a question and get a response for free, and the therapist's credentials are clearly listed. In addition, there are articles, book reviews, related site links. A favorite feature of this reviewer is
"Stepkid Advice," in which kids (whose ages and life situations are clearly presented) give advice from a " kid's point of view." To take advantage of all of the features at this site, you have to become a member, but membership is free and facilitated online. [If you want to be part of their discussion groups online, there is a further step of signing up with Excite.com that supplies the technology for their group discussions.]

Teen-to-Teen

Teen-to-Teen is an online magazine directed to Jewish adolescents both in the US and in Israel and other countries, with new issues monthly.

Teens can get their own creative writing or visual art published here, can talk to each other on the "Teen to Teen Bulletin Board," and more. It is run by Sites for Education and Culture, and managing participants are volunteers. They invite teens to become part of the web-design group. Connects Jewish adolescents all over the world. Looks healthy and helpful.

The best online resource for an "A" on your next paper

teknokids.com

A mother who suffered from carpel tunnel syndrome invented kids' gloves that help keep their wrists in appropriate position for preventing wrist strain while using the computer. She sells them through this internet site.

The History Channel

Great site for all things historical. ...lots of time lines, look up date of event, review the 20th century. Fun and informative. Great homework aid.

America's Doctor

These docs make "house calls"--they are on duty 24/7 to give information to online visitors. No fee, little waiting.... ask your question, get an answer.

Dr. Koop.com
General medical information.

Youth & Family Counseling

YFC sponsors this web site. It is a not for profit mental health agency in Libertyville, Illinois, with its own web site. 

Hostels.com

A list of hostels all over the world, with information and details. Just click on their map of the world or search by country. For your or your teen's summer traveling plans.

Rational Recovery

an alternative to AA for people who want to quit drinking... the web site offers information about this approach to abstinence, including links to research studies that indicate that participation in Rational Recovery results in better stats, regarding numbers of participants who maintained abstinence, than does AA. The web site details the approach, and even says that you can stop drinking just by taking in the info at the site. It takes on AA for keeping the wish for alcohol "alive and well" by fending it off 'one day at a time.' If you or someone you know drinks too much, you definitely owe it to yourself to check out this site, especially if you've tried AA already without lasting results.

Sarah Brady's handgun control site

Sarah Brady calls for common-sense handgun control. The site offers links to the latest news, opportunities to communicate with your political representatives, more...recommended.

Million Mom March

Information on the Million Mom March on Washingtron, DC, Mother's Day 2000, and further links to handgun control issues.

unfolding

Resource for re-inventing yourself. Beautiful, calm site with suggested activities that help you bring forth the best that is in you. Example: what is your greatest fear? Write it down, e-mail to yourself through the site (no one at the site sees it). You'll include exactly what you think will happen if your fear comes true and suggestions to yourself for how to deal with this fear. It works! to help put fears in perspective. Much more. For Parents and older adolescents.

Self-Improvement

SelfGrowth.com offers a directory to sites about self improvement and natural health, plus subscriptions to one of two different newsletters.

Gifted kids:

I Promise Program
A program to help teenage drivers and their parents to drive more safely, through use of "How Am I Driving?" phone numbers which other drivers on the road can use to report drivers' behaviors. Supported by educators, insurance companies, parents' organizations.

Internet Safety

Troubled Teens
One parent/therapist's attempt to provide help to other parents of troubled teens. Message boards, articles, more....

Visit SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center web site. Other related features sites include: The National Suicide Awareness Week web page , which highlights this celebration May 4-11. The event sponsor, the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), and its partners use this opportunity each year to disseminate information and resources on risk factors for suicide and emphasize suicide prevention strategies. Recent SAMHSA research finds that one out of every 33 children may have depression. Go to http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/highlights/May2003/depression/ to learn about the signs and symptoms of this mood disorder and find out what parents and caregivers can do. All the featured sites referred to here link users to publications, related topics, and a select list of links to organizations that offer additional information on each topic. These resources are available for free.  For more information at this web site about when to seek professional mental health care for your teen or preteen, go to About Getting Help.