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Old 11-07-2007, 03:08 PM
diebitter diebitter is offline
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Default And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

Okay, I'm really after some sort of community web site suitable for an 11 year old. Type of second life thing. My son, who is 11, wants to use 'weeworld.com' but the reviews say whilst it looks kiddy, it can be adult.

Anyone know any?

Google wasn't any help, btw.



In addition, my 7 year old wants to use the web, since we spent most of the weekend wiki-ing about all the different digimons, copying pictures, printing them etc.
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Old 11-07-2007, 03:11 PM
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I say forget the internet - give 'em a football and push 'em outside, the lil bastards.

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Old 11-07-2007, 03:33 PM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

Webkinz
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Old 11-07-2007, 03:34 PM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

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Webkinz

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my little sister loves this, and from what I have seen it is quite good
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Old 11-07-2007, 03:34 PM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

Ditto. If I had kids I think I'd throw a hammer through the t.v. At least if they just go over to someone else's house to watch t.v., they'll get some socialization in there by accident.

Diebitter, lots of toys have websites built around them these days. Barbie, etc. Disney has Toontown, I think, etc.

And there is a huge lego community out there that is pretty awesome. There are videos of people's lego creations and step by step tutorials from simple to unbelievably elaborate, design discussion and advice, a number of contests including national ones, etc. It's hard to think of anything more wholesome than legos, and frankly if I had some here right now it would be impossible not to play with them myself. That's something you and the kids can do together without your being bored silly. Create new stuff together, then build stuff on your own, and intersperse with learning projects where the kid picks one design and you both build it, then your turn to pick one, etc. Keep or destroy as desired -- a perpetual sandbox and family activity. Or at least have the kid turn on to an online community that's actually about self-expression and accomplishing something, besides the pure yapping.

I think that's what I would do. Good for a really broad span of ages too.

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Old 11-07-2007, 03:37 PM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

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Webkinz

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my little sister loves this, and from what I have seen it is quite good

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Yep. For 10 and under it is the current gold standard.
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Old 11-09-2007, 09:16 AM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

i was deep into porn by 12
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Old 11-09-2007, 10:59 AM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

My kids - going on 13 and 11 - have spent a lot of time on Runescape.
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Old 11-09-2007, 11:00 AM
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My kids - going on 13 and 11 - have spent a lot of time on Runescape.

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Do you leave them to it? Or monitor it at all? Or have they been told to raise any weird stuff to you?
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Old 11-09-2007, 11:41 AM
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Default Re: And good web sites for kids? 12 years old and less.

Diebitter,

We have had many talks with them about safety on the internet, like what information they should not disclose and what they should tell us about. But aside from those talks, we essentially leave them unmonitored on that site (except for us occasionally looking over their shoulders).

I'm sure some would think we're too lax, but I'm pretty comfortable with this approach.
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