MomsMinivan.com has been active since 2001 and has undergone many changes over the years. One of the biggest changes was the addition of my YouTube channel. As of 2020, my channel currently has 37 million views and 69,000 subscribers.
Here is a collection of awards MomsMinivan.com has received. Most of these were awarded in the “early days” of the Internet when there were many search engines that were all fighting for their share of the growing market, and blogs and social media hadn’t even been invented yet.
Tripbase Awards 2011 Blog Award.This year our panel of judges reviewed hundreds of sites from across the Internet before hand-selecting the best ten for each travel category. Your site is among these elite ranks, and can be seen here: http://www.tripbase.com/d/awards/2011/categories/winners/car-bike.htm The awards have been featured in CNBC, CBS and AOL News.
“Surfing the Net with Kids” newspaper column on 07/25/2005. “Surfing the Net with Kids” is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, and appears in many papers across the U.S. including San Diego Union-Tribune and The Boston Globe.
Parenting Site GOLD Seal Award from American Baby Contest. March, 2004
USA Today (June 11, 2003)
Hotsites – MomsMinivan
Do roadtrips featuring endless rounds of “Punchbuggy,” “The Name Game” and “99 Bottles of Beer” make you ache for a portable day-care center? It’s time for MomsMinivan.com. This site strives to make cruising with kids fun, or at least somewhat tolerable. Print out cards for bingo games, find instructions for making finger-string figures, and learn how to make a cootie catcher (which should come in handy for those truckstop restrooms.) Carsick kids? They’ve got help for that too.
Doc Trish’s Award for 2002 “Excellence in Internet Information”
Golden Web Award for 2002-2003 Presented by The International Association of Web Masters and Designers
ChildAvenue.com site of the week for October 8, 2001
RaisingASon’s “Son”shine award for June 5th, 2002
KinderStart.com Kid Friendly Site Award “Indicates your site is friendly to kids and parents.”
Key Sites Award
“We have presented you with our coveted and distinguished key site award. This award is known throughout the internet as representing a site that is of high quality and well suited for kids and parents.”
Linky & Dinky Certified Cool Site Award
Sites4Moms selected MomsMinivan.com for it’s award for Family Friendly content and gave a nice review:
101 Car Games – Vol. 2 No. 25 06/19/2001 www.momsminivan.com/
That cumbersome symbol of the American family, the minivan now has its own website. Only in America, I say. I’m not making fun of them I have one. What I like is that this site is not discriminatory; it is an equal opportunity kid appeaser. (If there is such a word.) This is the time of year when you get to find out just how roomy those vans are or aren’t as the case may be. If you don’t have a van, television for the car or are just plain nervous about traveling 1,000 miles with children, you need this site!
The web host has done a great job compiling travel games by age. Babies can definitely travel by car. They are too young to say, “He’s touching me!” If your kids are older and less tolerant many more ideas are here too. We personally have used the tinfoil modeling idea. It is great! A generic roll of tinfoil is cheap and the kids had a blast.
This site is a must see because even just traveling across town can be a hair raising “adventure” and I use that term loosely. Until next time.
Review: By the editor at Save.com
“Ah, the summer road trip. It’s a less expensive alternative for the family vacation. The only trouble is, most kids hate being trapped in the car for a long time. It’s hot, crowded and boring. You can only play travel Monopoly so many times, right? Family road trips can be a wonderful learning and bonding experience – if you know how to do it right. I stumbled across a fabulous site that has all kinds of information and ideas for making a summer road trip fun.”