Mothering Many

You know, the internet is a lovely place. You can find anything on it. Stuntman is learning about cottonwoods and Coronado while reading Tree in the Trail, and Country is helping him finding it online (her request). Of course, not every page that comes up in the search result for Coronado is going to be about the explorer. It can take some wisdom to sift through the results to find the relevant information.

Now, Coronado is an innocuous, you can kinda tell from the blurb if a site is worth a visit or not, but what if your search is a bit more.life altering. What if you need information on cerebral palsy therapy, or your teen needs info on STDs for a report? It’s can be a little more difficult to track down reputable sources on the internet than in the library. Any whack job can throw up a website for the price of domain and hosting, but that doesn’t make him an expert, yk? And while I know there are some less than beneficial published books out there, at least they are more or less classified by the Dewey Decimal System. You can at least sort the truth from the fiction from the pure fantasy.

How do you go about teaching children to do that when the internet isn’t broken down into neat little numbered sections?