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Child
Development
Children's
Literature
Consumer/Family
Studies
Child Care/Early Childhood Education
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Children's Music Web
- Daycare Providers
This site is for daycare providers - at home and in centers. It is for
sharing activities, issues and information.
- EduPuppy
Edupuppy bills itself as "everything for Education
Preschool-Grade 2." It is a large subject directory/metasite with over
2,600 links arranged by category.
- Head Start
Program for young children that is sponsored by the U.S. government.
- Idea Box Dedicated to the
education of young children, this site has ideas, articles, projects, seasonal
themes, and printable pages. It includes a very active message board for
parents and teachers.
- Montessori Activities for
Children
- National Head Start Association
Families
- Access America for Seniors
A gateway to government information and services for seniors and those who
work on their behalf.
- The Family Education Network
The main divisions of this site are by grade level categories: pre-school and
younger, elementary, middle school, and high school and beyond.
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Fact Sheets
for Families
The site by the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry provides concise and up-to-date information on issues
that affect children, teenagers, and their families, with topics ranging from
Abuse to Violence on Television.
- Family Network Homepage
A commercial site with lots of fun and informative articles/links.
- FatherMag The web version of Fathering
magazine, with articles for Dad.
- Kid Source Advice
for parents on issues including safety, nutrition, and coping with
disabilities.
- La
Leche League An organization that promotes breastfeeding.
- National Parent Information Network
A government sponsored site for parents and those working with parents.
- National Survey of
America's Families Snapshots of America's families highlights four
major subject areas: Income, Health, Children's Environment and Behavior, and
Adult's Environment and Behavior.
- Parent Time The content of
this site is geared from pregnancy to age six. Pregnancy and birth resources
are its strength.
- Parenting Q&A This site is
sponsored by Parents' Plus, the publisher of Boston Parent's Paper.
Besides having articles at the site there is a place to submit your questions
to parenting experts.
Health
Nutrition
Children's Nutrition
Sports Nutrition
Fashion
Design and Merchandise
History
- The History of Costume historical
dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century
- Clothes and the
Man history of men's clothes
- Historical Dress
- Costumes
This site provides access to textual
information, historical images from classic costume texts, and includes a
timeline of costume history.
- The
Costume Page This site indexes over
2000 costume-related sites, including museums and exhibits. It is also strong
in ethnic sites.
Style
- Style The style
section of the CNN news site.
- FashionWorld
This site links to sites of interest to
fashion retailers, manufacturers, and shoppers. It also provides a search
engine of fashion sites.
- Angel
of Fashion This site links to alternative fashion sites, e-zines,
designers, modeling and more.
- World
Fashion Sites Links to international
fashion sites, museums, schools, magazines, textiles and more.
- FirstVIEW: Collections Online THE
Internet publication for fashion show photographs from both haute couture and
ready-to-wear collections shown in Paris, New York, Milan and London. The most
recent fashions require an expensive account, however, you can view the past
season for free or purchase hourly passwords.
Industry
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Apparel.net
This site provides links to over
2,000 apparel resources and includes information on trade events,
organizations, statistics and news.
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Virtual
Garment Center This site is
divided into two sections; a section where companies can list garments or
textiles needed and a searchable database of companies such as
manufacturers, jobbers, supplies or retailers.
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Fashion
Windows This site has four
main sections: mannequins, visual merchandising, windows, and fashion
designers. Each section has a selection of articles and the windows has
examples of successful window displays.
Designers
Quilting
History
Gateways
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World Wide Quilting Page
- This site has quilting techniques, glossary of terms, diagrams and
directions for quilt blocks, a collection of foundations for paper piecing
and more.
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Quilting About.com
- A lot of information about all aspects of quilting. Be sure to checkout
the "Resources Here for Quilters" link.
Fabrics
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these sites!
Food Service
Nutrition
- American Dietetic Association on the Net!
- Bad Bug Book - A handbook
with information of food borne pathogenic microorganisms (bacterial, viruses and parasites)
and natural toxins. It provides basic facts.
- Food Guide Pyramid
- Information About Nutrition
- Information from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration. This includes information concerning labeling of candy,
vegetarianism, women and nutrition and protection against health fraud.
- La Leche League - This
web site is dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed.
- Nutrition
& Food Science Links - A really good site with excellent links.
- Nutritional and Metabolic
Diseases - Includes coverage of vitamin and mineral deficiencies and associated
illnesses, such as pellagra, beriberi and rickets as well as vitamin and mineral toxicities
and metabolic diseases such as Gaucher's disease, diabetes, and hypocalcaemia.
- Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary
Guidelines for Americans
- Quack
Watch - is dedicated to combating health-related frauds, myths, fads, and
fallacies.
- Tufts University-Nutrition
Navigator - This site provides links to other nutritional sites and
rates their quality.
Recipes
Restaurant Industry
- California Restaurant Association
Includes technical research and data, news releases of interest to California
restaurant industry, and job board among others
- National Restaurant
Association - Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading
business association for the restaurant industry. It's mission is to represent, educate and promote a rapidly growing
industry that currently employs 11 million people.
- Food Safety Index
Food borne Illness Education Information Center - sponsored by the USDA
- Food Safety Organization
National Food Safety Database
- Food Industry Information Gateway
electronic information services specifically for organizations in the food
service industry. This site includes links to News and Trade Journals.
- Gateway to Food
Safety Information - This database was designed by individuals with the Cooperative
Extension Service at North Carolina State University to promote food safety education via
the Internet. It is not intended to repeat information that is already available on the
Internet, but to provide a "Gateway" to these food safety sites, while also
including new information.
- Restaurant
Supplies Yahoo provides over 100 links to all kinds of suppliers
for restaurants, from cups to Walk in Refrigerators.
- Food
Service Consulting Yahoo provides links to commercial sites
that offer consulting to the food service industry.
- Kitchen Links
Master Index to over 7000 Food and Cooking Related Links on the Net.
- Ketchum Kitchen
This company develops recipes, test ingredients, tracks food trends, and
dreams up creative new ways to use food and beverage products.
- Bon Appetit Food Service
A company that markets to the institutional food service operations
Interior Design
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