By Cheryl Bac
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About this blog: I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, home cook, marathon runner, and PhD. I recently moved to the Silicon Valley after completing my PhD in Social Psychology and becoming a mother one month apart. Before that, I ran seven marathons incl...
(More)About this blog: I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, home cook, marathon runner, and PhD. I recently moved to the Silicon Valley after completing my PhD in Social Psychology and becoming a mother one month apart. Before that, I ran seven marathons including Chicago and Boston. Exercise is an integral part of my life. I hope to one day go back to long distance running and tackle the New York City Marathon. Right now I run after my one year old son. Although I am a stay-at-home mom, we are rarely "at home." My mom also stayed at home with my brother and me. She warned me that, although rewarding, it can be isolating. So, with her help, I learned the importance of getting out into the community and meeting other mothers. On the rare occasion when I am at home and have a hand or two free, I squeeze in time to scrapbook. As a new mom, many challenges are thrown my way. I hope my opinions, triumphs, and struggles help experienced parents reminisce, new parents cope, and parents-to-be get an honest glimpse of what the first years of motherhood can entail.
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We all know that kids ask a lot of questions. And one question can quickly lead to another and another and another.
I remember one of the first times I googled a question our son asked me. He wanted to know what sound a giraffe makes. And I was stumped. Thankfully we quickly found a variety of kid-friendly websites with lots of different animal videos to satisfy his curiosity.
Last week I checked out
Kiddle,
a kid-friendly search engine, and so far we've loved it. Our son likes the robot on the homepage and it's easy to quickly search topics and find websites or videos designed with kids in mind.
Our son is too young to use the site himself, so I'm not as concerned about which words are being
blocked and whether kids can still find
inappropriate content.
With more rainy weather in the forecast, I'm sure we will be using Kiddle to check out videos of cheetahs running, spiders creeping, elephants playing and whales eating.
Have you used Kiddle yet? Or have you checked out another kid-friendly search engine?
