Sorting through the infinite Internet can be a full-time job, and you don’t have time for this (which is not to say we all don’t get sucked into it from time to time). I’m offering up some of my favorite sites that are either written about parenting or by parents. Enjoy!

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Common Sense Media – This Web site features tons of sensible (parent-oriented) reviews of TV shows, games and movies for kids…

Southwest Airlines, that is. Why? Well, it’s definitely not because of the airline’s seating policy, which I find to be family-unfriendly. But my psyche smiles like a happy little emoticon when I discover places where technology is used to benefit kids. And today I stumbled on one of those places as I was meandering around the big blue sky of the Internet for my real job (as editor of a travel magazine you’ve probably never heard of unless you chalk up frequent flier miles in the six-digits annually).

Southwest…

Could high school students consider good grades to be as cool as the latest sneaker brand? Some educators in New York City are hoping to elevate scholastic achievement to a hot brand, using a special school-issued cell phone as a status symbol.  Esquire covers the story in its December issue. I love the idea because it hooks into what’s driving kids these days. No ivory tower or holier-than-thou idealism here. 

Here’s how it works. Every student in a high school gets a cell phone. It’s basically a silver Razr-esque Motorola phone, inscribed at…

I’m sure glad we’re focused as a country on having “no child left behind” (though results are questionable), but what about parents? The other night at dinner, Joe sadly reflected, “When it comes to technology, I fear I have just slid from the number three position in the family to number four.” (This after something Alex, our four-year-old, said about computers.) It’s a strange and eerie feeling when your kids have an understanding about the world–even a small slice of it–that you don’t. After all,…