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• Five Kid Things You Should Have Seen on the Internet

  When the Internet isn't providing access to crucial information (Jennifer Love Hewitt is dating Jamie Kennedy? Do tell!) or dishing out hours of endless entertainment (ah, Garfield Minus Garfield, will you ever get old?), it's also very effective at something else: making people feel stupid for not being aware of various pop cultural trends. To that end, you may have seen or received a link to Greg Rutter's Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something, a pretty comprehensive list of the viral Web phenomena that have dominated the online world during the past decade or so. (Who is Greg Rutter? He's a New York ad writer, blogger and, evidently, a guy who relishes the challenge of making definitive lists.) Some of you may read this thing and recognize every reference on here. (Many of the videos -- like the Dancing Baby and the Star Wars Kid -- are indeed pretty solidly embedded in the public consciousness.) Others may scan it and feel like a clueless loser. Or old. Or something. But if you're a parent, you may be particularly interested in the number of kid-related features that earned a spot: more than 10, by my count. If you don't have time to peruse all of them, here are five of the more compelling child-oriented Internet Things on the list, each of which I have highlighted because they a. are slightly more obscure than some of the others, b. really funny, or c. both. Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 10:32 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Jen Chaney, kids on the internet, bert and ernie, Boom goes the dynamite, Web video, Greg Rutter's Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something, I Like Turtles

• Kids Can Build Habitat Houses Without Lifting a Hammer

  As important as it is to promote philanthropy when kids are still young, sometimes it's logistically impossible to put kids to work for your favorite charity. Take Habitat for Humanity; construction sites aren't for kids (at least not the younger set). A toddler swinging a hammer is a safety issue on a job site no longer. Thanks to a new online game, kids can build virtual houses while the money paid to access the games goes to build real houses for Habitat for Humanity's Honduran chapter, and a host of other charities. Read More... Posted Jan 10 2009, 11:32 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: gaming, philanthropy, Jeanne Sager, kids on the internet, online gaming, charity and kids, kids helping, Habitat for Humanity, Elf Island

• Say Hi To Grandma Through the Screen

  My three-year-old likes to show her grandparents her nursery school projects. Too bad they're in Virginia, and we're in New York. Seeing a construction paper elephant is a tough job when you're looking through a phone line. We're still working on that. But if an article in yesterday's New York Times is any indication, there may soon be a nation of toddlers who never have to use adjectives to tell Grandma about their new artistic creations. Grandma and Grandpa have gone digital so they can keep up with their grandkids living half a world away. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2008, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: grandparents, family, Jeanne Sager, babysitter, grandma, phone calls, grandpa, kids on the internet, grandparents visiting, kids on the web, long distance family, long distance relationships, kids on the computer, web cam

• Mom Won't Let Eighteen-Year-Old on Myspace, So He Stabs Her

  Shelley Sue Pangle might want to pick her battles next time. The Iowa mom told her six-foot-two, three hundred twenty pound son he couldn't use Myspace anymore. Then she tried to confiscate his cell phone charger. Now she says the eighteen-year-old stabbed her. Can you blame him?    Read More... Posted Nov 06 2008, 10:26 AM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: MySpace, helicopter parents, social networking, teenager, Jeanne Sager, overbearing parents, kids on the internet, momma lift, kids and cell phones, internet danger