CreativePlayPlus.com Celebrates First Birthday!

Step2 and the Schubert Center proudly recognize 1-year of
http://creativeplayplus.com/category/child-development/ and creative play
information for parents

STREETSBORO, Ohio, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Remember your child's first
birthday? The cake, the candles, the hats and decorations? Remember how proud
you felt?

That's how we're feeling about the first anniversary of CreativePlayPlus.com.

In the past year, we've been growing organically, adding relevant content, and
connecting with families to inform, discuss and encourage their children's
development. It's wonderful to be part of a vibrant community helping each
other's kids grow up successfully, and we'd like to congratulate everyone
who's helped contribute to our early success.

"CreativePlayPlus.com connects parents with child development experts at Case
Western Reserve University who have a wealth of knowledge about children and
imagination," says Jill Korbin, PhD, Executive Director of the Schubert Center
for Child Studies. "In just a year, we've been able to share significant
resources with the 'blogosphere' and are thrilled to be an active part of the
dialog."

"Creative play is essential to the healthy development of a child," says Scott
Levin, President and CEO of Step2. "If families are more informed about play
and their children's development, we believe they'll make better choices about
the products they buy."

Since we first launched in June of 2008, CreativePlayPlus.com has:

-- Been visited by over 23,000 unique visitors
-- Received 502 comments on 112 posts in 18 different categories
-- Launched both Twitter and Facebook accounts

As part of our celebration, we've added a blogroll of some of the top "mommy
bloggers" dealing with the topics of child development and creative play This
list is by no means complete, but we feel it is a great place to start --
we've been reading these blogs since before we launched CreativePlayPlus.com.

Stop by and help us wish CreativePlayPlus.com a happy first birthday. We look
forward to many more.

CreativePlayPlus.com is a resource for parents that provides information and
ideas about creative play. We engage noted experts to inform, discuss and
encourage dialogue and fresh ideas around this topic.

CreativePlayPlus.com is supported by Step2, where we believe that parents,
grandparents and child care providers can benefit from being better informed
about the role of imagination and creative play in child development.

We do not provide personal advice, but simply aim to create a vibrant portal
for information on creative play for children.

SOURCE CreativePlayPlus.com

George Nemeth, +1-216-574-8700, gnemeth@optiem.com