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You think that's bad, check out the Social Security kids' site:
http://www.ssa.gov/kids/kids.htm

There's even an kids section for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. (They also do explosives.)

http://www.atf.gov/kids/index.htm

I've always be a fan of the NSA for Kids site:

http://www.nsa.gov/kids/intro.htm

Here a government kid's site that every child should see :)

http://www.cdc.gov/global/kids.htm

It's educational, don't you know.

Sure is, J Swift, just not in the way the government intends it! :-)

I wasn't aware that having a kids' page was government policy for their websites. In the case of Yucca Mountain, it makes sense to head off the inevitable class assignments with info that might help head off the hysteria.

Somehow this situation seems like a prime candidate for a song parody, based on Neil Young's Sugar Mountain.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/sugarmountain.html

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OMG I thought y'all were kidding until I checked the links

I love the rather chunky Bill the Bobder character on the Yuccy page.

Here's a kid's page from my collection:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/

I just posted a list of funny government sites for kids that I found after being inspired by your entry. I'd repost it here but it's really more of a blog entry than a comment.

Also, you can't pass up the CDC's disease trading cards.

Unfortunately, the pinnacle of this thing disappeared some time ago: the Simplified Tax and Wage Reporting System... for kids.

The site was like many economics-lessons ones where you run a lemonade stand: though in this case, you ran it by the book. There was an incredible amount of paperwork, all of it presented in a 'hey, kids, now it's time for that cra-azy form 1046-B!' kind of way. The whole thing must have been conceived of by a libertarian.

Wayback Machine link for the STAWRS for kids site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010605060829/http://www.employers.gov/stawrs/kids/

Good thing Abu Ghraib didn't have a website!

I checked with a friend of mine who is involved with the IRS website. He said there's no actual requirement that government websites have a kid's section, but it is recommended.

As Markm suggests, part of the reason for kid's sections is to help teachers who want to include information in their lessons. Then the agencies include games or something for the kids to do if the teacher sends them to the website.

Thanks to all for the fun links.

As one who works in the nucular industry, I have to say that the site link is an excellent idea.

Over many moons, the kids' parents have had drilled into their heads that NUCLEAR=BAD (via Sierra Club, public schools, and other special interest groups).

If the DOE presents facts [horrors!] about the proposed waste depository at Yucca Mtn., the kids have access to information that counters the received wisdom from their elders. Then, when the kids have a science project on Yucca Mountain to write about, they will have actual facts to back them up.

The feds do something right, eventually!

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