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"Surfing the Net with Kids" has been noticed by:

  • January 31, 2000
  • Britannica.com is contacting you because our editors have selected your site as one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability.
Rated by Schoolzone's panel of expert teachers
  • January 24, 2000
  • Congratulations on your site Surfing the Net with Kids: Mozart, which has been awarded a Highly Commended rating by Schoolzone's panel of 250 expert teachers.
  • November 24, 1999
  • BR Anchor Publishing has selected the Surfing the Net with Kids website to be included in our revised edition of "Let's Make A Move!" This story/activity book is for young children who are moving to a new city. We believe that your website provides an excellent means for children to research the geography, history and people of their new city/state.
  • November 11, 1999
  • Barbara, Thank you for continuing to provide incredible information to surfers on the Net. We placed your site in our kids book (300 Incredible Things for Kids on the Internet) over two years ago and I always recommend the site and newsletter when I do my radio interviews. Keep up the incredible job! Ken Leebow http://www.300Incredible.com
  • September 12, 1999
  • Glad to hear you are being recognized even internationally. I knew it would come as you are so consistently able to pick sites that are worth checking into. Not a kid myself (almost 80) but able to enjoy the clever things you find. Don't know how you do it. A fan.... Ernie Herr -- Combat Stories of WWII
  • August 19, 1999
  • I LOVE your newsletter. It is so clever and worthwhile. My kids are 12 and 8. I am a clinical social worker and hubby is a high school teacher. These are instructive and educational and enjoyable topics. Thank You Barbara Fritz
  • August 17, 1999
  • Dear Friend; I sure do wish to THANK YOU for your frequent newsletter. I am having a ball keeping up with it. Grampa Dennis Merritt
  • July 15, 1999
  • Your site is truly a gem! I enjoy browsing through it and seeing all of the wonderful sites for kids. Noah A. Prawer
  • June 8, 1999
  • I just wanted to let you know I love Surfing the Net with Kids. My son and I look forward to receiving the weekly email. The sites you suggest are fun, entertaining, informative, and above all - kid friendly. Thank you for providing such a great service. Christine Shore-Harrison

  • June 1, 1999
  • Your column is supposed to be for "kids". I guess I am a 70 year old "kid" because I have surfed with your recommendations since I learned how to use the computer. Many thanks for all your recommendations. Barbara Buhrer
  • March 25, 1999
  • Parents, Surfing the Net with Kids, is the Web equivalent of the kids' version of TV Guide that you always wished for but never had. Barbara Feldman--a syndicated columnist, former computer consultant, and mother of two--chooses a new kid-safe, kid-savvy site every day. Because she's been doing this for some time now, she has hundreds of sites archived in sensible, easy-to-navigate categories. In the future, we'll probably use this resource to find (and then tip you off to) the occasional outstanding kids site. But don't wait for us. Dummies Daily Internet Tips
Dummies Daily Internet Tips
  • February 1, 1999
  • This week's featured site is "Surfing the Net with Kids." This is one of the premier internet resource sites out there. If you haven't visited you, owe it to yourself to spend some time there. There are archives of the weekly topical web listings and a free subscription to a weekly e-mail, giving you a host of interesting places to visit. GET gives it an A+. Guided Educational Tours
World Village Site of Day
  • January 27, 1999
  • Called "Surfing the Net with Kids," it is the online vision of Barbara J. Feldman and what she feels is wonderful to experience on the Internet. ... The amount and variety of material here is truly wonderful. This site is a great place to explore and poke around. There is such a wide range of material here that there is truly something for everyone. Be sure to sign up for the free email column as well. Enjoy this site, I sure did.
  • January 19, 1999
  • Congratulations!!! Your web site has been selected as TeacherNet's "Site of the Week." Elsa M. Pagliery, Highlights for Children, Inc.
Highlight's Site of the Week

MSNBC
  • January 15, 1999
  • MSNBC chose "Surfing the Net with Kids" as an MSNBC Web Pick.
  • January 14, 1999
  • Today Yahoo! listed "Surfing the Net with Kids" as a Daily Pick on their What's New page (right along with WD-40 and Dunkin Donuts.) Of course, we all know I'm not new, but if Yahoo! wants to call me "new" that just fine with me!
Yahoo!
  • December 18, 1998
  • My name is Johnny B. I am nine years old. I wanted to thank you for taking your time to mail me all the nice things that you do! And I wanted to say Merry Christmas. My Mom and Dad like the things you send too. Johnny. Thank you! Editor's Note: It's messages like this one that keep me writing. BJF
  • December 26, 1998
  • GTE.NET listed me as a Cool Site for Kids
USA TODAY
  • December 9, 1998
  • She [syndicated columnist Barbara Feldman] advises parents to set time limits, to allow kids under age 16 only into monitored chat rooms and to use preset parental controls to limit e-mail to certain users. And if the rules are broken, the computer simply can be shut off.
  • Karen Thomas, USA Today
  • November 22, 1998
  • This site offers weekly selections of the best kid sites in a variety of topics, reviewed and rated by Barbara Feldman. Each week's collection serves up the best sites in a particular topic, from Dinosaurs to Ghost Stories to Beanie Babies. Written by Excite for The Seattle Times
Seattle Times
NY Times
  • November 5, 1998
  • Barbara J. Feldman, a San Diego-based newspaper columnist who writes a guide for parents on online safety and other issues, enforces one steadfast rule in the home she shares with her two teen-age [sic] children. "I won't allow a computer with Internet access in a room where you can close the door, like in their bedrooms,"she said. By Catherine Greenman for the NY Times


Net Mom
  • October, 1998
  • Barbara Feldman's syndicated column, "Surfing the Net with Kids," runs in almost 30 newspapers. Each week she picks five great Web sites on a favorite topic, such as Beanie Babies, paper money, robots and more. You can read her excellent column at the Web site and even subscribe to the e-mail edition for free.Jean Armour Polly, Net-Mom
  • October 4, 1998
  • Dear Barbara, I've enjoyed and used you resources for quite some time. Thanks for all the enjoyment and experiences you've given my students. Pat McDonnell Wilkes-Barre Area School District Wilkes-Barre PA 18702
  • September, 1998 Issue
  • Barbara J. Feldman, syndicated columnist and mother of two, scours the Web every week to find five great educational sites for young minds.
Editor's Note: Yahoo! Internet Life included my site in their list of the best educational sites for the K-12 crowd. Thank you Yahoo! BJF
Yahoo! Internet Life
POW
  • September 20, 1998
  • We are always on the lookout for great kid sites and we found one here. The author is a syndicated newspaper columnist with several major papers across the country. Her site is easy on the eyes, very easy to navigate, and the content is most worthwhile. Some of her past feature subjects have been Apollo II, Creative Cats, Wind Power, and Soccer Fun. Her site is set up for parents, kids, teens, grandparents, teachers, and the incurably curious. We love the way she describes herself, "columnist, mother, wife, and Net surfer supreme, not listed in order of importance of course". This is a run to and bookmark site.Frank Severa
SixPack
  • September 8, 1998
  • The "Surfing the Net with Kids" site has been Six-Packed for September 8, 1998. The Six-Pack showcases a variety of sites that may be of interest to the Internet Public. Pat Cashin
  • September 9, 1998
  • Your site, Surfing the Net with Kids: Ireland (http://www.surfnetkids.com/ireland.htm) has been reviewed by Doras and given a 4 Shamrock award. Doras is Telecom Internet's directory of Irish sites and your site can be located in the Family Corner section under Children's Corner. Emma Kavanagh, Doras Editor
Doras
  • August 31, 1998
  • Stopped by your site --- Terrific pages. Great Design. Great contribution to the World Wide Web. Ernest Slyman
EXCEL
NET MOM
  • July 7, 1998
  • Hi Barbara! I'm adding "Surfing the Net with Kids" to the 3rd edition of my book, which will be out next September if all goes well. ... Congratulations. Jean Armour Polly, Author, "The Internet Kids and Family Yellow Pages "
NYSIE
Hart Enterprises
  • May 31, 1998
  • Congratulations! Your web page has been selected to receive the "FLY WITH EAGLES" award presented by HART Enterprises. This award was implemented because in 1984, as the result of an accident while serving as an officer on active duty with the US Army, I became a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down. In a veterans hospital for 10 months, I was among many young men struggling to put a sense of worth back into their lives. I always admired our national symbol, the bald eagle, for its strength, courage and beauty, and its ability to soar on the slightest of winds. It was what those of us in the hospital were trying to do - muster up the strength and courage to live our lives with the least amount of help. Now I am in a position financially, physically, and spiritually to recognize others for their efforts. Thus, the "Fly With Eagles" award was born. We surf the net looking for worthy web pages. And, in some cases, web pages are recommended to us. Your respect for proper NET ETHICS and your ability to display your web page in a LOGICAL, INFORMATIVE, and CREATIVE format places you among only a handful of web masters that have received this award. Bruce Hart LTC USA (Ret) Life Member of the Paralyzed Veterans of America
  • May 15, 1998
  • I was very impressed by all the hard work you have put into the site and have to congratulate you on an outstanding achievement in web site design, both in appearance and content. I would much rather be succinct and just say WOW, but I just wanted to let you know that it has been a long time since I reviewed a site as informative and well designed as yours. A wonderfuly diversified family site and a definite pleasure to visit... Ben Ciolczynski
Award of Excellence
BBC Online Web Guide
  • April 28, 1998
  • Barbara Feldman is an American newspaper columnist who specialises in reviewing creative and educative children's web pages. In her own index site, she shares her "vision of what's wonderful on the web". She's got good vision, too. A wide range of topics span word games to paper airplanes. Links whisk kids to poetry workshops while taking parents to CD-ROM reviews. The graphics aren't high tech, but the content is high text. Perfect for new-to-the-net parents and their three- to thirteen-year olds. BBC Online Web Guide
  • April 17, 1998
  • Your site is featured this week in my "Kids Stuff" article on Suite101.com focusing on Earth day. Wayne Dawe Contributing Editor, Kid's Stuff Suite 101
Suite 101
Parenting Q&A
  • February 20, 1998
  • We are awarding your site the coveted Parenting Q&A Seal of Approval in recognition of your contribution to excellence in content for parents. Ellen McHale, Parenting Q&A
  • February 10, 1998
  • Barbara J. Feldman reviews several great related sites each week for newspapers across the country. This site contains those excellent reviews, available by topic or chronologically. This is a wonderful source of interesting material on the Web, whether you're surfing with kids or not! Nancy Frank, Education Index Editor
Education Index
  • February 3, 1998
  • I've read your column for quite a while. Now that I've left San Diego for Australia, I think I'll miss it. Do you syndicate to Sydney? Tom March, Sydney, Australia
  • February 1, 1998
  • Just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for the awesome column & links... my son is a paper airplane fanatic, and we got a lot of enjoyment out of this page. Jim Bement
As Seen on WebTV
  • January 19, 1998
  • Yes, it's true. I can be seen on the Explore page of WebTV!!
  • January 18, 1998
  • I have just dusted the surface of your Web Site and have been thoroughly impressed with the collection of valuable information you have for classroom teachers and students. Pat Lammers, 3rd/4th grade teacher, Portland, Maine
  • January 17, 1998
  • I REMEMBER WALTER CRONKITT'S APPROACH TO HISTORY IN THE 60'S ???? "AND YOU WERE THERE". I FELT YOUR ARTICLES HAVE THIS FRESHNESS THAT CHILDREN NEED TODAY. W. KENSEL
  • January 12, 1998
  • Just a quick note, to let you know how much I enjoy your site and appreciate all the hard work. Although I left childhood long ago, everyone can find something to enjoy with you!Larry Hall
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