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Affluenza Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza are PBS specials on the high social and environmental costs of materialism and over consumption and how we can avoid them. This site is an informative companion to the TV programs. Click on Diagnosis to find out if you have the disease, visit Web sites that encourage us to buy more useless stuff, and read about consuming moments in American history. Click on Bugbuster Profiles the The Show section to read about how others are overcoming Affluenza and visit The Escape from Affluenza section for suggestions on beating this "affliction." |
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BabyCenter This is an attractive site that offers information about every aspect of pregnancy: before, during, and after. Visitors have the option of setting up a specialized personal page that includes the latest updates on the parenting topics that interest them most, and they can track their baby's growth and development according to the site's weekly developmental updates. Daily features include articles and polls, and the site also offers bulletin boards and chats. Major topic areas include Preconception, Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler, and Topics A - Z. A shopping section helps you find items for mothers, babies, and children. |
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Betty Crocker: Betty's Kitchen The options for searching for recipes at this site are excellent. You can browse through lists of types of food or type your key terms into the search engine. A great feature is the What's on Hand? Section, which allows you to check off the food items that you have at home. Then the site recommends several recipes you can try using only those ingredients. The Grocery List feature is also helpful -- as you locate recipes you would like to try, the site adds them to your grocery list. Then you have a full list ready for you to go shopping. You can also plan your meals for the week with the Dinner Planner (which has express, kids', adventure, healthy, cooking for two, and find out about dinner recipes that take less than 30 minutes to prepare. |
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Consumer Education for Teens Developed by Mt. Rainier High School Students as a project sponsored by the Washington State Attorney General's Office, this site offers solid information to help teens become better-educated consumers. Here, young people will learn about credit and calling card scams, music clubs, car buying and repair, and health clubs. Also covered are fake product scams, the perils of get-rich-quick schemes, tattoos, online scams, modeling agencies, telemarketers, and college scholarship scams. |
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The Cook's Thesaurus Recipe ingredients can be expensive, unhealthy, or hard to find. Visitors to The Cook's Thesaurus will learn how to adapt recipes to suit their lifestyle. The focus of this site, compiled by Lori Alden, is to suggest substitutes for ingredients you may not have on hand. Did you know that garlic or onion salt will substitute nicely for beau monde seasoning? Or that clarified unsalted butter, safflower oil, or canola oil will do if you're fresh out of ghee? In some cases, the site has sim0ple instructions about how to make the ingredient in your own kitchen. |
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Decorator Secrets Subtitled "Where Interior Decorating is Made Simple," Decorator Secrets has numerous home decorating tips, including a Tip of the Day, a Tip of the Week, Quick Tips (featuring articles such a Lamp Creativity and Live with Literature), and Pro Tips. The eight Steps to a Beautiful Home is an excellent starting place, and you can also read tons of other articles, such as ones about choosing colors and selecting decorating products. Also, the Best of the Web section gives you additional links categorized by subject area. |
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The Dollar Stretcher Articles here, submitted by fellow penny pinchers, discuss money-saving strategies, fro saving for your baby's college tuition to hosting a low-cost wedding reception. Dollar-stretching recipes and home repair tips accompany advice on making natural cosmetics and saving on children's clothes. A great site for learning how to save before you get into unhealthy spending cycles. |
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Frugal Living These links from About.com cover everything from budgeting to becoming free of debt to tips about shopping, decorating, and personal care. You can search for books about frugal living and read the tip of the week. A related site called Couponing and Refunding (http://couponing.about.com/) contains sites that allow you to type in your zip code for coupons for nearby businesses. |
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House & Home Are you looking for decorating ideas for the bathroom? An easy curtain pattern? Tips on setting the perfect table? Better Homes and Gardens gives you ideas to liven up your living room, kitchen, bathroom, dining room, and bedrooms. You'll also want to browse through the entertaining, crafts, and remodeling ideas. If you're not sure what to choose, start with an interactive quiz to help you determine your decorating style. You can also share your ideas on the bulletin board. |
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House Beautiful: Decorating Take a quiz to determine your decorating style (you'll be asked to select your favorite lamp, chair, rug, and so on). The Interactive windows section lets you sample shades, blinds, and shutters. Get personalized tips on maintaining your floors, furniture, windows, and silver in Maintain Your Home. House Beautiful editor Peggy Kennedy answers your decorating questions in Ask Peggy. search through her past answers to see if your question has already been addressed., The site has a combination of serious and light-hearted articles. |
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I Am Your Child I Am Your Child is "a national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early childhood development a top priority for our nation." Its founders include actor Rob Reiner as well as many child experts. At its site, you'll find parenting materials that focus on the first three years of life. Information is divided into several areas, including Ten Tips, Brain Facts, Ages & Stages, Quality Child Care, FAQ, Resources & Research, and Expert Advice from child development experts T. Berry Brazelton C. Everett Koop, and others. |
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Interior Decorating This site provides reliable resources and is a good place to begin searching for home decorating information. An exhaustive collocation of links, community-building features such as chat and bulleting boards, and frequent updates help distinguish the site as one of the vest, and its feature articles will undoubtedly pique visitors' interests. Recent topics have included virtual room makeovers decorating a nursery, and home decorating deals from flea markets. |
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JoyofBaking.com The creators of this site are quite clear about their goal: to revive "the lost art of baking." The information is divided into five main departments: Breakfast, Cookies, Cakes, Tarts, and Entertaining. Under Breakfast, for example, you will find recipes for baked goods certain to make the morning meal more of a treat. These include a variety of scones and biscotti. And what's a scone without some lemon curd on top or even Devonshire cream? The recipes under Cakes include genoise au chocolat, ladyfingers, and lemon and cranberry pound cake, to name just a few. |
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Low-Fat Living Low-Fat Living is not just about recipes. It also addresses the need to develop a healthier lifestyle that incorporates exercise as well as a diet lower in fat and cholesterol. However, the archive of recipes remains the most useful component of this site. Among the dishes featured here are healthier versions of guacamole, chocolate cheesecake, tiramisu, tomato and onion pie, low-fat spicy fries, chilled beet and raspberry soup, and cayenne shrimp stir fry. Additionally, visitors can access tips about how to stay on a diet when dining out, read book reviews and sign up to receive free low-fat recipes by e-mail. |
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Native Way Cookbook: Cookbook of the Grandmothers This collection of Native American recipes offers an appetizing way to get back to the roots of the United States. collected from a number of Native American tribes and traditions, the recipes range from the ordinary, as in hoe cakes and sweet potato bread, to the unusual and exotic, as in parched yellow jackets and O-Ga-Na, a groundhog recipe for which there are two variations. You'll find traditional and contemporary recipes from the Apache, Cherokee, Choctaw, Iroquois, Mohawk, and Navajo nations at this site. Begin your visit by clicking on the image; then you will learn how to navigate the rest of the site. You can also subscribe to an e-mail discussion list. A section called Homework Help, Educator Resources, & Student Projects gives helpful information for students and teachers.
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Parent soup This is an excellent site with a wealth of information regarding all aspects of child rearing. You can solicit expert advice, participate in a daily poll, or join a community of parents with similar concerns at this large parenting site. Major community of parents with similar concerns at this large parenting site. Major topics include Sleep, health, Safety, Eating, Childcare, Milestones, Behavior, Education, Fun, Kids & Money6, Siblings, and Divorce. The Tools section includes a baby name finder, a pregnancy calendar, a recipe finder, a mothering style quiz, and a sleep deprivation quiz. Teachers will appreciate the Education Central section; resources are divided into grade level and information is given on learning disabilities, home schooling, standardized tests, and more. |
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Teen Driving Getting a driver's license shouldn't signal an end to the need for driver's education. This site, designed for new teen drivers, offers valuable tips that will help teens improve their driving skills. Created by University of North Carolina graduate Rick Buckholtz as a community service, Teen Driving provides advice about a number of driving situations, including driving in bad weather, parallel parking, passing, the dangers of fatigue, and driving in urban versus rural areas. |
From: Web Feet©: Guide to Search Tools, Search Engines, Directories, and Tutorials, Thomson Gale, 2004. |
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