The Starfall Web site allows the parent to access sections for each of these skills. To learn the alphabet, the child can click on a letter, hear the phonetic sound and see it “fit” into a word. There ...

Like many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans ...