Children is the broader term for infants, toddlers and tweens. These posts are about children of all ages.
As a gift the other year we gave one of the Hallmark interactive story characters to a friend’s child who had just turned 6. The child loved the gift but I didn’t really get it. Now that we have a child who is on the cusp of reading, I get it. The Bigsby Interactive Story Buddy is another avenue for kids to enjoy reading and it really works.
Continue reading Children will love the Bigsby Interactive Story Buddy from Hallmark
Some ads take a moment to grab you, especially if your main character is a dad. The dad ad two years ago from Tide, where he’s talking about braiding hair and doing home stuff was awesome. More often than not the dads in advertisements are lame, stupid, overly machismo or just don’t resonate with me. Game on for the new Lego ad that features a dad building stuff with his child. It’s awesome, brings back great memories and might just make you tear up.
Continue reading The new Lego spot is the best dad ad in a long time
So recently we participated in a campaign with Crayola and Create 2 Destroy. They provided us with a Create 2 Destroy set and asked us to let a rampaging 4 year old (and me!) create things and destroy them with a dinosaur and rock throwing volcano. Yes, it’s a voting then-but the punch line is, if our video has the most mojo then we’ll give away 10 Create 2 Destroy sets.
Here’s our video. If you think it rocks then you can follow the link and vote, remember it’s a vote for us and for you (we say in our best cheesy politician voice).
Continue reading Create 2 Destroy: vote, build, have fun, vote and win
For our oldest son’s Halloween party at school we were responsible for the drinks, cookies and music. I asked my wife if she had Thriller on the MP3 player. Thriller is a lot of parent’s default Halloween music, more for the memories of the video than the music itself. It was then when I was about to dust off my moonwalk shoes that I found about a family friendly free Halloween music for kids playlist that Disney put out.
Parents to children know that something strange happens to them on Daylight Savings Time. Specifically in the fall when folks in the United States are coming off Daylight Savings Time, ie, losing an hour, young children may behave differently. Differently, waking up at odd times, being crabby or otherwise behaving unlike the angels that they normally are.
Continue reading How to make daylight savings time easier on small children
The other day I read this great article in The Daily Mail. It was written by a health professional at a weight management center, or centre as he would write. This morning I was greeted with the obvious bait link of a headline, “Hot Mom on Facebook Defends Herself”. That story was not what I thought it would be, but it was also a great read about motivation, exercise and parenting. I simply combined the two stories in my head to come up with the train wreck of a headline: In Defense of a hot mom on Facebook and fat children in England.
Continue reading In defense of a hot mom on Facebook and fat children in England
Kids have it lucky nowadays. Their toys are smarter than mine were and their holidays just seem bigger, witness Halloween. In our neighborhood most of the neighbors have at least one Halloween decoration in the yard and the kids know what they’re dressing up as weeks before the big night. Enter the #KmartHalloween twitter party on 10/16 at 1PM ET where we’ll be scaring up tweets on Halloween, the cool candy, the costumes and giving away $200 in Kmart gift cards.
Continue reading The #KmartHalloween twitter party on 10/16, 1 PM ET, $200 in possibly spooky prizes
What kind of freak would steal pedals to a children’s bike, I thought to myself when I first saw the Joovy Bicycoo Balance Bike. It was then explained to me that the pedals were never there and that a balance bike helps young children learn and practice their balance. Why can’t children just learn by falling off their bike the way that I did, my old school self said in my inner monologue. Enter the Joovy Bicycoo Balance Bike, a product you may not think that your toddler needs, but they do. Continue reading Joovy Bicycoo Balance Bike review: Stylish, helpful and kids love it
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