Family and Parenting General Resources

YOUR RIGHTS and Responsibilities as a Renter - Protect Yourself

Protect yourself from illegal landlord practices. Learn about your rights as a renter and save time, money, and countless headaches with annoying landlords. Protect yourself from illegal discrimination based on your race, gender, or religion. Make sure your landlord is not charging too much for the rental deposit - find out how to get it back after leaving. Find out who is responsible for keeping the apartment repaired and in good condition. Learn about your duties so you do not get evicted. If you have already run in to trouble with your landlord, find out what your rights are, so you can protect yourself from abusive landlord practices.

Academic Software, Student Software

Gradware.com offers thousands of full version academic software titles discounted up to 80% for students, faculty, staff, and schools. Academic Software - Graduate Limited is the guaranteed low price leader for academic software, student software and student discount software. To purchase discount software from Gradware, a customer must provide us with proof of their academic eligibility when placing an order.

Adult Dyslexia Screening Online

The first internet performance-based dyslexia test for adults is now available. Find out right now if you are showing any signs of dyslexia! This is the only dyslexia test that simply runs within your web-browser - no CD or delivery required. Unlike most dyslexia screening tests available on the internet - we don't rely on a check-list. Instead we assess your performance, against one of the largest samples ever collected for dyslexia screening. In just 30 minutes* you will receive a full and highly accurate report on whether you show any signs of dyslexia, or have any other literacy difficulties.

ApartmentAccess.com - Innovative Apartment Referral System

ApartmentAccess.com is an innovative apartment referral system that assists renters in locating apartments without the personal expense of a broker's fee. The service matches client's preferences with current apartment availabilities, enabling the client to rent an apartment directly from the owner therefore eliminating the real estate broker and fee. ApartmentAccess currently operates in Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. For additional information about ApartmentAccess.com please go to www.apartmentaccess.com.

AwesomeBabies.com - A Supportive Community for Parenting and Life

A community for preconception, pregnancy, parenting and life in general. Come start your free pregnancy or parenting journal or join an online playgroup and become part of this fun and supportive community.

B*E*S*T Doula Service

Certified birth doulas, postpartum doulas and Hypnobirthing practitioners serving the greater Los Angeles, California area since 1996. Services include professional labor support, pregnancy and birth photography, Reiki, massage, hypnosis and more!

Baby Bee Hat Company - Hats, Caps, Bonnets, and Mittens

Baby hats, caps, bonnets, and mittens - all handmade for quality and comfort - your tots will flip their lids over our hats! We're not a mega-factory cranking out the same run-of-the-mill, poor-quality hats for twice as much as they're worth. We're just a small family-run operation sewing hats by hand to ensure lasting quality and uniqueness at an affordable price. We pride ourselves on our workmanship. Three of our hat styles (sailor, train engineer, and beret) appeared in a Halloween costume section of the October 2002 issue of Parents magazine!

Baby Sleep Help - Empathic Sleep Teaching

Are you a parent looking for a common sense, yet distinctive way to cope with colic and/or solve your infant's sleep problems ? Need professional support and encouragement from others in similar situations? Don't have the time or energy to wade through countless books on infant sleep that may not be applicable to your particular child? This site and support forum are operated by social worker Darcie French (founder of EST) and family law lawyer Natalie Johnson, both mothers of post-colic children, devoted to teaching EST and supporting parents through the implementation of their sleep plans. We know you will find the ebook and support forum invaluable, as others are right now, during one of the most important parenting efforts you'll ever make; teaching your child to have healthy sleep habits in a way that promotes attachment, trust and life-long relationship skills. Don't waste any more of your precious time, start making positive changes now, to get the sleep you and your baby deserve.

Baby Sling Baby Carrier - Attachment Parenting & Instinctive Parenting

InstinctiveParenting.com is devoted to promoting and supporting secure healthy attachment between parents and children. We provide a comprehensive range of baby slings and baby carriers to suit every mood and occasion. We have the hug-a-bub wrap-around baby carrier, Maya Wrap side sling, Ergo backpack and more. We even have a sling comparison chart to help you choose the right baby carrier for your needs. Browse our growing abundance of information on babywearing, attachment parenting, kangaroo care and premature babies, co-sleeping and adoption. We hope it provides inspiration and helps instill a deeper confidence in your innate expertise to care for your baby. Enjoy!

Beauty Worlds: The Culture of Beauty

All about beauty in nature and cultures past and present with informative articles on fashion, body image, hairstyles, and covering topics ranging from Aztecs to orchids.

Beyond Indigo- NDE, Death and Dying

Death and the Spirit and Near-death experiences. Beyond Indigo is part of a a privately held company called Kelasan Inc. based out of Minnesota, MN. Beyond Indigo has been live on the web since 1997. The goal of this company is to provide grief support, products and services to individuals and companies who assist people who are grieving.

Cell Phones for Soldiers

Non-profit group that collects used cell phones and sells them to get calling cards for soldiers in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The Cell Phones for Soldiers program was started by thirteen year old Brittany Bergquist and her twelve year old brother Robbie of Norwell MA. They hope to provide as many soldiers as possible with prepaid calling cards for now, with an ultimate goal of providing banks of cell, satellite, or VOIP communications. They have already distributed calling cards to soldiers in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Jim Kelly, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback of the Buffalo Bills is a proud sponsor of Cell Phones for Soldiers. With Jim's help not only will you be helping soldiers call home, you will be saving money at the same time. Country Music star Maggie Austin is also a proud sponsor of Cell Phones For Soldiers.

The Chris Farley Foundation

Chris Farley, one of the most popular comic actors in the world, died of the effects of substance abuse at the age of 33. Chris's battle with drugs, his memory and his humor are at the heart of The Chris Farley Foundation. In the battle against drugs, The Chris Farley Foundation and we, his family, want to empower a young audience to think again when it comes to experimenting with drugs. And we want to do it with laughter, concentrating on what comics do best - communicate.

Communication Tips To Help Improve Your Communication Skills For Better Relationships

Improve relationships with family, friends, spouse or lover by learning communication tips. Use communication skills to get your point across and really hear what the other person has to say.

The Complete Online Business Reference Center - Free Downloads!

Why build JUST a Web site...when you COULD build a Web BUSINESS? Outstanding for work at home moms with a home based business and/or website. There is a special free prize inside every e-box of SBI!A sense of freedom, self-reliance, joy of living, passion... all the things that REALLY matter!!

Dream Work With Nightmares

Nightmares may be upsetting, but they are not real and can't harm you. And if you have one, you're in good company: almost everyone gets them once in awhile - adults, as well as kids. During REM sleep, you have dreams and sometimes those dreams can be scary or upsetting. Read our article on nightmares to find out more.

Eco Roommates - Vegetarian roommates, Vegan roommates, Adventist Roommates

Ecoroommates.com - Vegetarian roommates, vegan roommates, Adventist roommates and macrobiotic roommates seeking vegetarian or environmental living in a place with a vegetarian kitchen or kosher kitchen. Find a Roommate who shares your environmentally oriented, healthy lifestyle, vegetarian diet.

Eileen Fisher - Fashion Designer

A fashion designer specializing in minimalist clothing in natural fabrics. "I only want to wear clothing - and make clothing - that works with all the dimensions of my life. I want to do yoga, go to work, and go out for an evening in the same clothes -change a single piece instead of changing my outfit three times. In clothing that embodies who we are, we feel like we can do anything - stretch at a desk, run a meeting, or have a vision - and realize it! Eileen"

ePublicEye.com

Directory of Registered Safer Shopping Sites. All Public Eye registered merchants agree to be conitinuosly monitored for reliability and customer satisfaction, independently rated and reviewed by their own customers, and to fully disclose their customer satisfactionrecord. Consumers may also file complaints on Internet businesses. Top 10 Scams, Identity TheftScam, Weight Loss Scams, On Line Sex Scams, Know Your Rights on Late Holiday Shippments, Buying Anthrax Antibiotics and Other Drugs Online, Avoiding Debit Scams, Are You on a Sucker List? Keys to Safe Shopping, High Octane Gasoline, Who's Selling Gas Masks? Gifting Club Scams, Your House as Collateral, Your Credit and Divorce, Why Low Tar & Nicotine Ratings are Unreliable Timeshare Scams, Helping Your Children Understand Toy Ads, Making Sense of Long Distance Offers, Disaster Relief Scams and more!

HomeSchoolArts.com

HomeSchoolArts.com is a free visual arts lesson site offering lessons in Pen & Ink, Pencil/Graphite, Color Pencil, Perspective, Watercolor, Pastel, and more.

How To Win A High School Election

You don't have to be popular to win a high school election. Looking for great ideas for your campaign speech & posters? this is a book of advice and ideas from over 1,000 high school Seniors about campaign speeches, posters, slogans, issues, and platforms to use when running for Student Council. You can run for Student Council against the most popular kid in your class... and WIN! (REALLY!) Copy their ideas. Avoid their mistakes. See what worked (and what didn't work) for candidates in other schools. Underdogs win all the time. Visit us and learn how.

Infant and Children's Clothing by Anna Bean

In an effort to stay home with her newborn daughter Anna, Karen Fontaine started Anna-Bean Clothing, Inc. an online children's clothing store. The company's goal is to provide convenient online shopping, quality merchandise, fair prices and excellent customer service. Here you will find adorable, affordable, quality infant and baby clothing, baby shower gifts, toddler and children's clothes. Now offering luxury diaper bags, girls' christening gowns, boys' christening gowns, Flap Happy swimwear, Wippette raincoats, custom crib bedding and custom kids' bedding. Girls' clothing by Peaches n' Cream, Pervenche, Hartstrings, BT Kids and more! Boys' clothing by Dogwood, BT Kids, Mulberribush, Tumbleweed and more! Sweet baby gifts by Nana Knits, Fattamano, Kinderware and Clean Shopper®!