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Talented Warren designed and programmed the website for me with whatever spare time he had available. Thanks Dude!
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matrx internet solutions www.matrx.co.nz Talented Warren designed and programmed the website for me with whatever spare time he had available. Thanks Dude! |
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Media Associates www.media-associates.co.nz Ralph, a trainer in emotional intelligence, was so kind to give his time. He reviewed the questionnaire and the worksheets and suggested improvements I didn't want to miss. |
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new lingo / lingo24 www.lingo24.com Christian deserves the praise for the idea of creating this very link directory for visitors who want to find out more. |
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WebbWords homepages.globe.net.nz/carol/ Carol crafted the wonderful tagline: "Take your child's emotional pulse". It won her the prize of a bottle of wine for the best tagline one night. But I feel that I am the winner. |
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EQ.ORG www.eq.org This is a must-visit-website for people interested in their own or their children's emotional development. The site maintains a huge number of high quality links all about emotional intelligence. There's even a Parents and Kids section. |
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Feelings www.parentingpress.com/violence/talk.html This is an article from the Parenting Press website. They offer books on child guidance, parent education, emotional competency and children's safety. But there is more to their website, e.g. parenting tips, a newsletter and articles. The link above takes you to an article that offers parents a means of helping kids understand feelings. |
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Parent Journal www.parentsjournal.com/InterviewsEmotionalDevelopment.html Based on a radio talkback for parents it has information relating to toddlers, pre school, school age, pre teens, and teenagers. It has useful tips and information from other parents that have gone through various experiences. I especially like the interviews on emotional development. |
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Teach With Movies www.teachwithmovies.org An excellent idea: Teach with movies. If we like it or not, movies and TV are part of our children's life. So rather than fight the inevitable, let's use it to our advantage. Some of the discussion questions of their Learning Guides might even help the emotional development of your child. Be creative and develop your own questions or ask me for samples. |
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The Children's Emotional Literacy Project www.kidseq.com This project seems very valuable for helping children in their emotional development. There is information on seven emotions and how to help kids with them. This site looks like it hasn't been updated for years but the information is relevant nevertheless. |
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How stuff works www.howstuffworks.com Here is explained how all the stuff around us works, e.g. why the sky is blue. It is a bit difficult for younger people to read and navigate. I got around it by reading the articles myself and translating it to my son. Unfortunately, the site recently introduced annoying popup windows and all sorts of ads. |
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KidsHub www.kidshub.org Kids Hub is a free online interactive learning centre for school students. It features fun educational games, puzzles, and quizzes that get the mind thinking. I really enjoyed this site - it offers a fun learning environment. |
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Summer of Discovery www.summerofdiscovery.co.nz The Summer of Discovery 'Summer Fun Kit' contains a video and activity book full of adventures to excite children about science and technology. The video can be rented in New Zealand. My son loves it and even I learned something and got a giggle or two from the video. Vicki has done a great job. |
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Teach With Movies www.teachwithmovies.org An excellent idea: Teach with movies. If we like it or not, movies and TV are part of our children's life. So rather than fight the inevitable, let's use it to our advantage. Some of the discussion questions of their Learning Guides might even help the emotional development of your child. Be creative and develop your own questions or ask me for samples. |
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About our Kids www.aboutourkids.org This site is from the New York University Child Study Center. But it is not just an academic exercise for researchers with a PhD. This site is for parents, too. It tries to join the best of both worlds: sound research and applicability of results. There are several useful and informative articles. Checkout for instance the parenting section, category: emotions. |
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Family Education Network www.familyeducation.com This site is a great source of information for enhancing children's learning and helping your kids with daily life. Parents can find information on helping their kids with homework, reading, recipe ideas, dealing with bullying and puberty. Kids can participate in quizzes, get cool ideas for arts and crafts and play online games. |
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Parent Journal www.parentsjournal.com/InterviewsEmotionalDevelopment.html Based on a radio talkback for parents it has information relating to toddlers, pre school, school age, pre teens, and teenagers. It has useful tips and information from other parents that have gone through various experiences. I especially like the interviews on emotional development. |
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Parent Soup www.parentsoup.com This site is packed full of information on kids from activities and fun, child health through to step-parenting and working mothers. There are relevant articles on parenting and dealing with stages in kids lives. The learning section of the site is great it gives useful tips and alternative ways to dealing with learning problems.  |
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Parents down under www.parentsdownunder.co.nz This site offers articles and information on a range of parenting issues. There are several topics including health and development, interesting articles, handy hints, recipes and much more. Some of the information is very relevant - other's not, e.g. star signs. The handy hints section offers parents solutions on how to deal with bee stings through to removing chewing gum from carpet. |
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Parent Centre www.parentscentre.org.nz This website contains a wealth of topics related to pre and postnatal issues, birthing, parenting, families and education, as well as news from the Parents Centre organisation. The site links to the kiwi parent magazine and has the latest articles online. There are several parent centres in New Zealand and the site gives location and contact information. |
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Parenting with confidence www.parenting.org.nz This is the website for the New Zealand magazine 'Parenting with Confidence'. There are hot tips that offer suggestions to deal with parenting issues. It is a parent friendly site - it is parents helping other parents. There is a good section on anger for kids and parents that offer alternative ways of dealing with the emotion of anger. |
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Kids Health www.kidshealth.org This is a great interactive website for parents, kids and teens. The site has information for parents, fun activities for kids and information on how to deal with problems and issues in teenagers. It provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. I found the site very informative and fun. |