As a parent, I’m always looking for safe things my daughter can do online that will help her learn the computer skills she needs to make it today. Lets face it, when I was a kid computers were rare (we had one because dad worked for IBM) and the opportunities to use them were even rarer (does anyone else remember Tink Tonk?? I used to love that game!).

Todays kids are lucky, there lurks around every corner a world of electronic fun, but the problem is how to make it fun and safe. Well, leave it to Disney to buy (they bought these guys recently for a nice chunk of change) one of the best things on line for the younger crowd, Club Penguin. Following on the heals of the popular run of Penguin movies lately, this fun online “myspace for the younger crowd” is set around penguins. As the site says “Club Penguin is a kid-friendly virtual world where children can play games, have fun and interact with each other” and boy do they deliver.

Members are able to create their own penguins in kind of a virtual wonderland of penguinocity and they can interact with other penguins and make friends exploring the arctic. Its actually a very cool (pardon the pun) online tool for your kids and its a good way to help them learn about internet safety as well.