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Kid's Channel - Provides activities, games and stories for young children and kids of all ages.
United Kingdom Missing Children - Dedicated to helping reunite missing children with their families. A tool designed to aid law enforcement agencies and other authorised organisations in the safe recovery of missing and/or exploited children. The site has support from a number of UK charities and organisations.
British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering - Resources and information for those wishing to adopt as well as professionals in childcare who need to keep up to date with the adoption issue. Events, news, legal details and directory of agencies.
Baby Bond - Tax-exempt savings to provide a head start for a child.
Care Today Childrens Services - Operator of childrens homes and a residential special school in the North West with core provision in Liverpool, Manchester and Staffordshire.
UK Children's Directory - Directory of children's services and activities in the UK.
All Parents and All Kids - Directory offering guidance and links to shopping and advice sites dealing with a wide range of topics and parenting issues. Includes channels for 'Days Out', 'Childcare' and 'Education', as well as a chat zone and All Kids section containing age-graded child-safe links.
The National Association For Gifted Children - Aims to provide help and support to gifted and talented children and their families and others involved in their education. Contains details of publications and research, young person's area, and guide for schools.
Adoption-net - Presents information about adoption and fostering. News, child profiles, bulletin board, and glossary of related terms are included.
Families Online - Local listings, discussion forums and monthly features for parents of young children and babies in the UK.
After Adoption Caring - A consultancy to aid people find a way of re-contacting after the adoption process and offering emotional support.
All 4 Kids UK - A directory of services and items of interest related to children. Site is searchable by activity and location.
UK Wild - Dedicated to helping young people take note of the wildlife around them by participating in wildlife surveys, and contributing pictures and stories to the site.
Hidden Lives Revealed - Online archive of material relating to children in the care of the Children's Society 1882 - 1918. Includes case files, photographs and oral histories.
Cloth Nappies - Information on washable cloth nappies. How to use, wash, types available and handy tips. Review section on different nappies.
The Foster Care Co-operative - Providing a range of foster home placements to children accommodated by local authorities in the United Kingdom. Includes descriptions of the three types of placements and information for prospective carers.
The Fostering Network - National foster care agency, helping whole families when children cannot be with their parents because of a crisis. Created by the NFCA, supported by the UK's Department of Health.
BabyCentre - Information and advice on pregnancy, birth and childcare from baby to toddler. Includes buying guides and an online community.
SACCS Child Care Services - Offer a variety of care, residential, and therapy services for traumatised children. Includes information on training and contact details.
Voice for the Child in Care (VCC) - Advocacy for children and young people in care. Campaigns, projects and services.
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Children The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Children Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Children "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Children Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Children Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Children A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Children We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Children "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Children Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Children Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Children A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Children There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Children Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Children "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Children Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Children Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Children "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Children "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Children The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Children "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Children
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