BellaSara has dream horses for our ‘horse-loving’ daughters
Bella Sara
Magical world where our daughters can nurture horses, play games, and be the hero in your own story. And it won a prestigious iParenting Media Award!
The Scoop:
- User nurtures and builds a virtual family of horses and friends, decorates living quarters.
- Free registration by parents for ages under 12. Free receipt of 1 online horse to care for in virtual stable.
- Card packages of collectable additional horses and friends are $2.99/package of 7 cards. (At all National Chains). The images “come alive” with a code input.
- Cards also “buy” items at a virtual bazaar to use with horses.
- Users can play virtual animated games without any purchase.
- Range of additional activities including journals, stories, coloring.
Ambience:
Beautiful pastel world of horses and nature, all with peaceful, melodic background music.Recommended for: Girls aged 6-11
Pluses:
Safe, no chats
Parent can limit usage time
Range of attributes for early through older readers
Promotes: nature, family, friends, nurturing, responsibility, creativity
Messages inspire loving, caring, self-empowerment discussion.
Pull downs helpful
Minuses:
Slow to load
Needs some time for explanations to early readers
Users may become bored without continuing purchases
Horses don’t yet have range of manipulations
Random card packs mean duplications
From the Horse’s Mouth:
6-year old daughter Lailee gushes, “I love him! I take care of him!” “Plllllease, 1 more time!”(favorite Fantasy Rider game)
Good to Know:
“Cool news” type promotion on the website of new additions brings continued anticipation for users.
Quick Facts:
· Safe, no “chats” parent controls
· Girls 6-11-More simple aspects for younger girls, more complex for older.
· Free to join and start
· Collectable card packs $2.99/package of 7
· Gentle, peaceful, reflective background music
· North of Norths a virtual fantasy world of nature
· Fun games, beautiful images,
· Concept involves, nurturing, family development, nature awareness
· Card messages for self-empowerment discussion possibilities
· Top 5,000 site, 478K US users
· Tom Grayson of Santee Sioux Nation and Chair at U. Washington consulted on creation of Native Lights
How many ‘Clicks’ does this world get?
We like this site and give it 9 Clicks! What do you think? Send your views and votes to OneClickMoms.
Our Reviewer Today is Cynthia Lechan-Goodman
Cynthia Lechan-Goodman is a seasoned educator/counselor/writer/artist. She has a Master’s Degree in Education and Counseling from Columbia, and B.S. in Elementary Education, but she finds the highest levels of learning (and most amazing and complex) are marriage and being a mommy. Both of these stations happened to her late in life-proving dreams can always come true. She loves juggling her writing, painting murals and portraits, with seeing the world through the eyes of a child, and a man! Cynthia has written on parenting and families for magazines and online, including Mother and Daughter Bonding, Family Maker Magazine, and DUO Miami, has written and edited for Scholastic Inc., and taught and tutored all levels and capabilities from New York down the coast to Florida. For this column on the internet, she brings the grand appreciation of one who earned her Master’s using manual typewriters, and the joys of mutual discovery and insights of experiencing cyberspace with children.
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