Parenting Online
Amazingly enough there are other parenting websites… I know, who’d have thought?!?! We plan to post reviews and opinions on them and other sites of interest. Your honest feedback and experiences will be most welcome too and you are welcome to offer a review of your own site for publication.
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Empowering Girls…
Last modified on 2010-11-26 06:37:27 GMT. 18 comments. Top.
…To Fly High! Empowering Girls; an appropriately titled site, recently opened a new online store 7Wonderlicious. Both sites encourage women to join a global tribe and role model the true ability of girls and women to be anyone and do anything they want in life. Gender stereo-typing through misguided role models, media and peer pressure often results in girls who do not reach their true potential personally, professionally or socially.
Inês from Empowering Girls was kind enough to allow me to pick a post to share with you all. It was a hard choice between the original Welcome and the great post on 7Wonderlicious; however I feel this Welcome Post explains what this great new site is about beautifully:
“Our mission is to reduce the threats to a girl’s health, happiness, confidence and ability to succeed by overturning the gender stereotypes that affect a girls’ lifelong potential.
Our research shows that gender stereotypes have a devastating impact on five critical areas of a girl’s life. Stereotypes promote:
1. lack of confidence, distorted body image and low self-esteem;
2. low involvement in sports and physical activity;
3. lack of engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics;
4. lack of boldness, risk taking, perseverance and resourcefulness;
5. challenges with assertiveness and fear or unwillingness to speak up;
Our focus is to support you: parents, educators and trusted adults in your journey to develop the future generation of confident and empowered young women. We will provide you with information and tools that will allow you to prepare your pre-school aged girl to be immune to the plagues facing women in today’s world.
There are fantastic organizations out there focusing on mentoring and coaching teens and women in overcoming the limiting beliefs and stereotypes that are fed to them every day by out of date social and cultural rules, old stories, media and unfortunately also parents and educators. Our strategy is a little different, we focus on building a future where we will not have to try to remedy the harm done, where we will not need to patch things up.
The first years of a girl’s life are a crucial time when their identity and model of world are being shaped. Our goal is to nurture in our girls such a strong empowered identity and belief system that they will simply ignore misinformation and limiting beliefs.
Do ensure you sign up to our weekly parenting and coaching weekly tips and tools series, only available via subscription.
Love,
Inês
© http://www.empowering-girls.com/”
The site is also supported by a great blog and facebook page; well done Inês I am really looking forward to following your journey and reporting your achievements.
© 2010 Luisa Foliaki/SassyLu – Proud Mumma of MicroMe & MissyMe
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My Parent Book
Last modified on 2010-11-14 01:32:44 GMT. 15 comments. Top.
I asked my friend Angie from My Parent Book to give us the first online parenting site review:
“I created My Parent Book after being disappointed with the way my friends and my self were treated on a different parenting website. I felt that the general atmosphere of that site was too policed and “nice” no one was free to disagree or have an opinion that didn’t go along with the majority. So out of the ashes My Parent Book was born.
My site is a place where parents can vent, talk, laugh, share, support, gain information, have fun and feel safe. As admin I will only step in when it is 100% needed. The only thing I will not tolerate is verbal abuse, bullying and spam. I believe people can argue the idea without attacking the person. I’m also new to the whole ‘running a website’ thing so they may be some hiccups along the way but I will do my best to keep the site fun, fresh and vibrant.
I will also take member suggestion into account as much as I can. When you join you get your own profile, you can up load up to 5000 pictures, have your own blog, join in many different forum discussions, join a diverse range of groups, participate in live chat discussions and make new friends.”
So why join?
Here are some of the Member benefits:
Site content is not searchable or viewable to non members including your personal blogs / discussions
Photos
o Multiple photo albums o store up to 5000 photos o Tags/rates/comments
Video
o Embed videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and all other major video sites o Tags/rates/comments
Forum
o Many different parenting / life topics o File attachments options on discussions o Rich text formatting and photo uploads o Freedom to discuss topics in an open minded enviroment where debate is encouraged.
Blogs
o Monthly archives o Tags/rates/comments o Rich text formatting and photo uploads
Links
o Vote up/down, Digg style o Tags/comments
Groups
o Add any HTML/RSS/media items on group page o Many different group avaible or create your own group
Comment walls
o Comment thread on any piece of content Activity streams o Showing activity of the whole site o Up to date, real time activity stream
Mailbox
o Send/receive private messages o Conversation format o Mark conversations read/unread o Email notification
Status updates
o Send status updates to activity stream, Twitter-style
o Coming soon: IM, events, classifieds, wiki, and many other features.
Of course I have joined; how could I not, it is a FREE and FUN way to make FRIENDS with other parenty types like myself. As Angie mentioned, the content is PRIVATE and viewable to members only, however here is a sneak preview of my profile page to give you an idea of what to expect.
Way to go Angie, double thumbs up! My Parent Book is a great concept, so far I am finding it fun and easy to use, best wishes from SassyLu – Sassy Parents.
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Word Domination
Last modified on 2010-11-14 01:23:37 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
If you want a war of words, or are into word games of any sort, this site; which I stumbled across randomly could be of interest to you: worddomination.com. I was doing a quick Google search to find MicroMe, so I could post a blog link on the side menu bar and this came up:
microme
Examples microme’s examples
- © Luisa Foliaki sassylu – Proud Mumma of MicroMe & MissyMe So, here I am, with my own self indulgence that I dedicate to my greatest achievements, MicroMe and MissyMe. — “Sassy Parents”, sassyparents.com
It was the first example in the list of three for microme and there are photos and videos for the search as well. You can also type in letters into a word finder tool at the top of the page to help you out.
It’s a pretty neat site if you are into word games and interesting for me because I made it on to the site with my little man MicroMe, (aka Jaydee).
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Guide To Pirate Parenting
Last modified on 2010-11-15 13:44:12 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Whilst sailing the seven seas of the world wide watery web, fishing for free-ebooks and unique parenting posts, I hooked this: Guide to Pirate Parenting. Cap’n Billy kindly gave me permission to post some gems from his chest of treasures:
Avast ye land lubber spawn raiser!
If you’re like most parents, you long to raise your children as pirates but just don’t know how. In the Guide to Pirate Parenting, Cap’n Billy “The Butcher” MacDougall provides everything you need to know to turn your little powder monkeys into happy, healthy buccaneers. You’ll learn:
- At what age your child should be able to remove a bottle cap by taking out his glass eye and using his eye
- Which offense requires administering The Flying Dutchman Wedgie
- How to prevent sogging the quartermaster
- The best place to maroon your disobedient child
- How to remove chewing gum or a giant octopus from your child’s hair
- The difference between plundering and pillaging
- How to convert your minivan into a pirate schooner
- When to smack your teenager in the side of the head with an oar
And best of all each information-packed section of the Guide to Pirate Parenting ends with “Your pirate’s progress,” a short quiz that shows whether your child is reaching his or her pirate development milestones.
Check out the site and get your own copy of the paper book or download the free e-book, (you are invited toss a few coins to the pirate should ye choose), by talented Tim Bete. Cap’n Billy’s Magic Pieces-of-Eight Ball will provide answers to all your questions, so give it a shake, or try out Cap’n Billy’s pirate schooner name generator or some nursery rhymes and other surprises.
PS Cap’n Billy, I am seriously considering the SassyWench idea, safe sailing 
© Luisa Foliaki/SassyLu – Proud Mumma of MicroMe & MissyMe
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