by guest author Jason Bradley
There has always been a great demand for options that let
children have their own virtual pet to love and care for in
order to receive some virtual affection. I would hope that you
can remember the old days of the little Tamagotchis that would
cry and beg for attention and selfishly demand food on [...]
Following my own advice about going to kid-friendly products to find kids games online, I started looking at different toy brands.
I came across the “American Girl” historical dolls and books, which are very popular with girls from the age 7 to 12 set, I understand.
My six-year old DD had recently seen the movie Kit [...]
Online games are a great attraction for kids and their parents alike. A parent, who may be familiar with online games for themselves, may wonder where their child can begin, though. The choices for kids’ games online are immense.
One great way to begin is to view your child’s television programs with them and look at [...]
Miniclips is a games site that claims to be the largest free online games site. With at least 279 games in the Miniclips kids games category alone, I believe it. DD and I dove in for a try. First we tried Narnian Prince Caspian. Six-year old DD said it was challenging… a bit of an [...]
Here may be a novel idea for finding games for your kids to play online. Check the package of your child’s favorite foods. Especially check the packages of foods that market to kids. We are talking snack foods, candy, drinks, and so on. I know we do not like how some of these companies aggressively [...]
First we tried UptoTen.com. We tried the Treasure Chest Race but found that getting the boat to follow the cursor was frustrating on the first try. On The Great Honey Race we only had to click on a die to make our honey bee race a butterfly. I liked the realistic bee buzz noises. Ads [...]
Seeing the off-site links on the Yahoo Kids site, that I mentioned in the last blog post, reminded me that I should probably be a bit more mindful of child safety on the internet.
During my next search for kids games online, I found a site called I Keep Safe. Although it is a very useful [...]
Yahoo! Kids offers several kids card games online: Go Fish, Twenty-one, Canasta, Euchre, Hearts, Gin, Pyramids, Spades. An applet must load.
Bill’s Games offers a no-fuss way to play Solitaire (also known as “Patience” in England) on the internet. Bill’s Games is compatible with all browsers including TV browsers like MSNTV (WebTV), WorldGate and AOLTV. [...]
Making some searches we found a kids gaming website at Yahoo at kids.yahoo.com/games. Duh, I thought. Why didn’t I try here before. I used to be an addicted backgammon player on Yahoo many years ago. Let’s see what Yahoo for kids has for us.
First there was a very prominent image for Kungfu Panda which appeared [...]
What We Did on Our Summer Vacation…
In the quest to drive away summer boredom, DD and I are reviewing kids games online by trying them out and posting our findings here. DD is my six-year old daughter, and she will be in first grade in the beginning of the school year in August.
After browsing [...]
