We're grandparents adopting our 5 & 8 yr. old grandchildren. They were removed from their mother. We have to monitor her choices of computer games, TV, etc. She doesn't always use good judgement. We supervise ALL visits at her place or at ours.
Mother paid for and enrolled the almost 9 yr. old boy up for Club Penguin. We purchased a computer for them to play games on which we located in our dining room so it can be monitored. They are allowed 30 min. computer game time each night after homework is done. They get 1 hour on weekends. We know that's not a lot but the boy is extremely hyperfocused with TV and computer games. The little girl doesn't have this problem.
My question: Is Club Penguin safe for this age group? We don't won't Mom to be able to "Chat" or "Blog" with the kids but Club Penguin seems to have these options? What are the safest and unsafest websites for this age? We'd prefer free sites.
Webkinz
Nick Jr
Playhouse Disney
Starfall
Also there is a new free internet browser designed for kids. Lets you montior how long and what they play
It's called Kidzui
http://www.kidzui.com/
It has links to many different other kids sites and games.
You can create each of them their own profile and it pulls up their own age appropriate sites and games
for someone the 9 yrold candy stand and shockwave both have a lot of games and are not "adult" at all and the girl disney and nickoloden have games she can play but i would look into getting some educational games look into leap frog stuff and other eduacational games
PBS Kids
My son loves Pokemon and there is a pokemon website with games and TV episodes.
Treehouse.com
http://treehousetv.com/kids/games/play.aspx?activity=Games
I love this site because it allows my child to play games that includes her favorite characters
jigzone.com for both, the puzzles can be six pieces or more
wordworld for th five year old
pbs.
I can rattle off a few that are educational as well. My sons love these sites and will actually ask for them over regular game sites.
http://www.coolmath-games.com/
http://www.funbrain.com/
Not so educational
http://www.addictinggames.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/
Has some great, educational games.
My girls also play on
iknowthat.com - it's free to play, but there are options with paid membership also so that you don't have to see the ads.
studyisland.com - this is through the school so I do not know if you can get on it without a username and password through the school. It's specifically for TAKS testing so your school may be able to give you that info.
My daughter is 5. She got her very own laptop for Christmas (yes, Daddy spoils her LOL). She has already mastered opening bookmarks for Nick Jr. and PBS Kids. And she's a pro at navigating the sites too. She LOVES them! She will play the games and also watch some episodes of the shows.
And she also knows how to open & play Angry Birds...LOL but that's not online and not free (I think it's still $5).
Oh, forgot to mention that the Nick Jr. & PBS Kids sites are very educational. I am always sitting near my daughter as she's playing & I can hear everything and I LOVE hearing how much stuff she is learning :)
Club penguin is good there is the option to play for free, Nick Jr, Lego.com has some pretty cool games. and Jumpstart.com
-Nick Jr. for the younger child
-Disney
-Nickelodeon
-Lego has a really cool game site
