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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Kids Edition review: great tablet for safety and learning

Our four-year old boy loves the family tablet. It was a handy potty training device and quite useful when on road trips. However recently it has become an issue because of one word: YouTube. One day he discovered an ‘R’ rated, unauthorized version of a cartoon that he loves. We were in the same room and turned it off immediately; but it was apparent that the learning aspect of tablets comes with a side that we don’t want him to be exposed to. Enter the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. It was created by someone who needed a kid’s tablet while not worrying about the wrong kind of barnyard video spoiling the fun.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flying Attack review

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be very big in 2014. In addition to the cartoon on television the rebooted movie comes out and you’ll be hard pressed to not see a ninja turtle on a 7 year old boy. You’ll also see a flurry of games including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flying Attack! that we were sent for review purposes.

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A visit to Festival of the SEAson at Georgia Aquarium

On a cold, rainy Sunday we received tickets to the Festival of the SEAson at Georgia Aquarium, featuring SCUBA Claus, the FantaSEA in Lights, Mermaid Performance and Seaside St. Nick. Not that you really have to convince our children to go see animals. This, however, was different – we were combining Santa Claus and animals – not to mention that this was the first family trip out together in at least a month, since the entire family has been sick with stomach flu, foot & mouth or colds since mid-November. To put it simply: excitement was off the charts.

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Man of Tai Chi: better than average martial arts with great fight scenes

Man of Tai Chi is the story of a tai chi student who is fighting in a tournament in China. The tai chi student is played by Tiger Chen who has been doing stunts in many high profile martial arts movies since Crouching Tiger. His character in the movie is also called Tiger, but anyone who has ever seen a Jackie Chan movie can forgive that bit of name play. The story in Man of Tai Chi is straight forward stuff, but the fight scenes are really good and the movie is better than you would expect.

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer shines at Center for Puppetry Arts

As if we need another excuse to go to Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, my oldest son and I went to see the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It is so much fun to do mother-son dates now that he is 4 and can sit through short presentations.

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Danger in the Manger disappoints all, even the diehard Whovians

Danger in the Manger is the sequel to Nativity!. I never saw Nativity!, but it must have been good enough to merit a sequel, right? They would never make a sequel to a Christmas movie just because it’s a seasonal movie, would they? This is the story of a Christmas song competition, a class of regular students with a jokey teacher that gets into the finals, the pretentious yet well meaning class of talented singers and a class representing the ones that win every year. Think of it as Christmas themed episode of Glee with elements of The Bad News Bears tossed in for comedic effect.

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Children will love the Bigsby Interactive Story Buddy from Hallmark

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.

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The Descender from Rockboard is an all terrain adrenaline rush

Remember the “a ha” moment in A View to a Kill when Bond took the blade from his snowmobile and turned it into a snowboard? That feeling is the same as when you step onto a Rockboard Descender. It’s essentially a skateboard for the dirt. The Descender from Rockboard uses treads instead of wheels that allow it to move off road with ease. So, perhaps it’s more appropriate to call it an all terrain skateboard, with wheels like a tank that provides adrenaline and fun.

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