Top 12 Website for Kids and Parents

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Top 12 Websites for Kids

One of the great things about the worldwide web: endless information.

One of the worst things about the worldwide web: endless information. Having the world at our fingertips is awesome, but sometimes knowing the best places to go can save us time and peace of mind. We’ve screened hundreds of site for you.  Here are our top twelve.

When it comes to kids stuff, here are 12 websites that you will want to know about. As a parent, you know what is best and appropriate for your child, but these safe sites can certainly be a great place for them to start.

Our criteria: These sites are all safe content and especially good for young children because they are both fun and also provide leaning opportunities for them — and us.

Seussville.com What do we need to say about this? How about: “Dr. Seuss!!” Who doesn’t have great memories of reading Dr. Seuss as a kid?   They are also vocabulary stretchers.  Many young children today are even familiar with the many different Dr. Seuss movies that have been hugely successful! And of course, the books are as great today as ever before. Kids love them. So Seussville.com is a fun and safe place for your kids to land and even learn while they are there.

Seussville.com good for kids and parents says kamaron institute

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Young & violent: 10 signs of troubled teenagers

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Margaret Ross, Kamaron Institute founder, was recently featured in Associated Press news story about teen violence.


BY MEGAN K. SCOTT
ASSOCIATED PRESS

One young man had a history of depression and drug abuse. Another was said to closely follow the Columbine case and reject help from counselors. And a fight at school appears to have provoked a third.

Three shooting rampages in a one-week span have refocused attention on troubled youth: a 19-year-old man opened fire at a Nebraska mall, killing eight people and himself; a 24-year-old man killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school in Colorado and then killed himself; and two gunmen who wounded six students at a school bus stop in Nevada, following a fight about a girl….

Margaret Ross – Teens Have Poor coping skills

A troubled child may be unable to cope with frustration, disappointment or stress, manifesting into anger or severe depression, says Margaret Ross, President and Founder of the Kamaron Institute.

“The reaction is larger than the situation and it’s regularly larger than the situation,” she says. “There are no small deals. There’s only big deals.”

Depression

If your child is isolating himself, puts himself down and talks about feeling hopeless, like the world is out to get him, these are all signs he is depressed. Males are more likely to act out their depression in a violent way than females, Margaret Ross says….

READ MORE FROM THIS ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071220/FEATURES01/712200334/1076

 

http://www.northofboston.com/eagletribune/pulife/local_story_355093917

 

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071218/LIFE01/712180309/1023/life01

A Presidential History Lesson

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We can learn so much wisdom from studying history and all the great men and women who lived before us.  This is a little fun history lesson.  If you like math you could try to figure up the odds of this happening.  It would be hard to even figure out!  Not only is it odd that it was the same day but that it was a VERY meaningful day in both of their lives.  It is amazing.  OK, read on to figure out what I am talking about…

These two men were both signers of the Declaration of Independence, they were also both Presidents of the United States and they were also both great friends.

Did you know that both of these Presidents and friends died on the exact same day? Not only was it the same day but it was a very special day…

Jefferson died on the Fourth of July, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the same day as John Adams' death.

On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at his home in Quincy. His last words are often quoted as “Thomas Jefferson survives.” Only the words “Thomas Jefferson” were clearly intelligible among his last, however. Adams was unaware that Jefferson, his great political rival — and later friend and correspondent — had died a few hours earlier on that same day.

The fact that both Adams and Jefferson, both of whom had been so instrumental in creating the Declaration of Independence, would die on the fiftieth anniversary of the date of its publication, is one of the greatest coincidences in history.

Education lesson resources from Kamaron Institute for parents and teachers.

Booker T Washington Quotes: Wisdom of Booker T Washington

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About Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

 

Lecturer, Civil Rights & Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Executive Founder of Tuskegee Institute

 

Dedicating himself to the idea that education would raise his people to equality in this country, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington became a teacher. He first taught in his home town, then at the Hampton Institute, and then in 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.

 

QUOTES SAYINGS OF BOOKER T WASHINGTON

 

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

Booker T. Washington

 

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

 

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Booker T. Washington

 

  “I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.”  – Booker T. Washington

 

 “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

 

“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”

 Booker T. Washington

 

“No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.”

 Booker T. Washington

 

      “Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”

 

 “At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”

 

 

 

Kids And Teachers Humorous Moments

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Parenting and teaching are sure to bring hilarious moments like these conversations reported by teachers.

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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />North America.

 MARIA: Here it is.

 TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?

 CLASS: Maria!

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 TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell “crocodile?”

 GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L”

 TEACHER: No, that's wrong

 GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

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 TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?

 DONALD: H I J K L M N O.

 TEACHER: What are you talking about?

 DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.

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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.

WINNIE: Me!