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Website lil Loves: Pee on a Stick
Any woman who has gone to the store in search of a home pregnancy test — even if it came from the dollar store — has encountered an aisle filled with different brands claiming to provide the earliest, most accurate results. If you've ever wondered which tests truly were the most sensitive and how the sticks differ, be sure to check out Pee on a Stick, a comprehensive look at the sensitivity and accuracy of virtually every home pregnancy test on the market.
Using anecdotal evidence from women around the world, the site offers advice on everything from when to take each test to what odd looking results could actually mean.
Website lil Loves: Speakaboos
The benefits of reading with children are beyond debate. It helps teach them letter and word recognition, engages them in conversation, and introduces them to new concepts. Transferring those benefits to the online world is not easy, but Speakaboos tries to do just that.
Website lil Loves: Schoohoo
Email trumps school fliers and phone trees these days, but it's not always the fastest way to make contact. Some parents only check their personal email a few times a day or week, or don't sit at the computer. Schoohoo offers the technology for schools to send free messages and alerts to parents, students and faculty via free text messages and email, so the community stays in-the-know whether they sit behind a desk or at a phone.
Website lil Loves: Little Jet Set
With the Easter and Passover holidays less than a month away, many mamas are eyeing their calendars in anticipation of Spring breaks. Whether you are excited at the prospect of a break from your daily routine for one that involves beaches and Disney or if you are dreading the idea of hours of travel to your destination of choice, Little Jet Set will prepare you for the plane, train or car ride ahead with a selection of toys and games to make the trip a little easier.
The site, started by two former lawyers, categorizes products by age or toy type and features everything from Automoblox and lacing cards to magnetic puzzles and snugly animal blankets your lil one can cozy up to for a mid-trip nap.
Website lil Loves: One Laptop Per Child
My five-year-old daughter thinks typing on my BlackBerry while in line at the store is a treat. She is no different than the other children of the world that delight in learning new things or testing out electronics — except for the fact that she has access to them on a daily basis. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an organization that puts educational tools into the hands of youngsters that need them from little girls in Afghanistan to poverty stricken elementary school students in Alabama.
Website lil Loves: Where Do Kids Eat Free Today?
The economy has made life particularly hard for parents. Finding entertaining and fulfilling family and budget-friendly activities is a daily challenge, which is why I was instantly intrigued by this Where Do Kids Eat Free Today? site.
Website lil Loves: BabyNameWizard
If you've ever spent hours pouring over baby name books, get ready to clear your calendar for the next few days. BabyNameWizard.com, the online sibling of the best-selling Baby Name Wizard book, provides visitors with access to three of the author's computer models to help find the perfect name for your lil one. Through Namipedia, you can discover a favorite name's meaning, popularity and origins.
Website lil Loves: YoJoMama
The people that brought the world MizPee, the mobile restroom tracker that helps you find a clean place when you just gotta go, launched a parent-friendly site called Yojo Mama today.
Described as a "concierge for your cell," the site helps moms and dads find child-friendly restaurants, toy stores, kids clothing stores, diaper-changing stations (can I get an amen!) and playgrounds from your computer or web enabled cell phone.
The results are based on the user's current location, neighborhood or city.
Website lil Loves: HealthyToys
Don't toy with your child's health. The site HealthyToys.org has tested more than 1,500 toys and children’s products for lead, cadmium, arsenic, PVC, and other harmful chemicals and posted the results. While lilsugar reader's voted the new lead testing laws for 2009 to be too extreme, the site found that one in three toys tested were found to contain "medium" or "high" levels of chemicals of concern.
Website lil Loves: Nannies4Hire.com
Moms wishing there were more hours in the day often look to a nanny for help, but finding a person suitable to care for your lil ones takes time.
Instead of trying to poach your friend's nanny who makes Mary Poppins look bad, turn to Nannies4Hire.com. Whether you are looking for full-time, part-time, temporary, summer, live-in or live-out nannies there are a variety of experience levels available.
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