Best sites for parents, kids and education - what do you think?

[JaneGMumsnet]

Hi all,

We've been asked to recommend the best websites for parents, kids and education that everyone should know about.

They could be blogs, useful sites, homework sites, sites for fun, sites for children and sites for adults.

Which are your recommendations? Apart from Mumsnet, naturally

We'd really value your help.

Thanks very much,

MNHQ

My lot really like Friv.

Lots of games to choose from there.

Piterest and Houzz are my go to site.
Mumsnet?

Never heard of it,

Pinterest!

Piterest is quite a niche site for miners. Obvis.

Reading Eggs really helped dd1 with her phonics

www.parentchannel.tv - video clips and advice on parenting issues from 5-19yo.
www.wordsforlife.org.uk/ - advice to parents on developing children communication and literacy skills
www.ican.org.uk/ - charity helping children communicate
www.essexmums.org/ - brilliant local portal for parents in Essex, probably explains why MN Local for Essex isn't very well used.
BBC website are all generally fantastic, the parenting stuff is very good, CBBC and CBeebies sites are both excellent and Bitesize etc. are also great.
Every community should have a local parents forum like this www.billericayparents.com

I may be back with more

Yes, I second Reading Eggs. It was a great start for DS1, who went quickly from having little interest in letters, to being thrilled with the idea of learning to read.

The British Museum's Young Explorers site - lots of recipes for kids and other stuff to make as well as guides to lots of stuff at the Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/explore/young_explorers1.aspx

oops, bad linkage, i meant: Young Explorers

The student room for older children www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
The Khan academy www.khanacademy.org/ for revision/ study help
BBC bitesize www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/
I'll ask the experts later

For maths mangahigh. You can play the free games or there is a subscription option for a tailored programme. Some schools use it. (No vested interest.)

My 7 yr old daughter showed me a site about physics stuff that children can try out yesterday but I can't remember what it was called. Let me have a look in the history and see if I can find it. Anything that gets girls into science has to be a good thing...

here we go - marvin and milo - www.physics.org/marvinandmilo.asp?id=77

Great for homework help kids.nationalgeographic.co.uk/kids/

There are other websites?

Seriously, it's trite but true that my preschooler loves CBeeBies and is actually learning things from playing their games.

Another vote for Cbeebies DSS2 (just 5) really enjoys the games and gets the hang of them really quick.

Www.thestudentroom.co.uk. Www.UCAS.com.

unistats.direct.gov.uk. Guess what stage my DSs are at?

Khan academy is excellent.

the fungooms and samorost for intuitive games (ds, 5)

www.show.me.uk is a brilliant way of accessing games from museums around the UK, whatever their age and interest (or school project) you'll find something to look at. DD (8yo) loves breeding new creatures on Thingdom (basic genetics) and my personal favourite is the Snowflake maker.

I love the imagination tree.

Ex-teacher with 3 kids with genius messy play ideas for preschoolers and babies.

www.kidslocal.co.uk - I love the fact that it's just for second-hand kids stuff, and the 'local' aspect is great - it means you don't need to trawl through endless ads. I've sold a few bits on there and find them so much better than gumtree or ebay.

Khan academy is brilliant.

3yo DS likes The Mouse Club for educational games

Day Out With The Kids is comprehensive, current and really easy to navigate

The Crazy Kitchen is a great blog for cooking with and for kids

Poissonrouge for preschoolers upwards.

My ds6 loves the cool maths websites, and i love the fact he is learning without knowing it

I wish the internet had been around when we were young. But in the old days I suppose mothers had to help each other and give each other advice.