Cute Website For Kids

Posted Jan 18, 2006 by Janine Dorsey

Updated Jan 18, 2006 at 11:00 AM

Pokemon is passe. Digimon is dated. And anime is antiquated. At least according to my elementary school-age kids. What is of-the-moment is “Neopets.” My kids have plenty of regular pets (four guinea pigs, a hamster and two cats). But those pets don’t eat magical omeletts. Those pets aren’t able to bid on auctions for magic fishing boots or itchy scratchy cream. http://www.neopets.com/ is a free “play” website for kids that doesn’t solicit personal information from them to play. To get them set up you can just use your email address to get their password and after that they are left alone. Of course, ultimately they are trying to sell something. Which is the Neopets product line. But kids are bombarded with advertising no matter what.  At least this site offers puzzles and other challenges in an attractive kid-friendly format.  And kids really love the site. Kids do. Just kids. By the way, some of my pets are Waterfall The Wocky and Goldie The Meerca ...