Melissa’s Anti-Gift Guide (Worst Children’s Toys)
I’m not someone who believes television is evil, because how can television be evil when Spongebob Squarepants is on it? No television isn’t evil, but advertising is (also, my husband works in advertising….hmm…). I know how to say no to my kids, so when they ask for every single thing they see on television it [...]
Best Children’s Board Games (Please, save yourself from Trouble)
I know it’s getting a little heavy on the gift-giving Christmaukkah postings here, so let’s just call this: “Family Bonding Not Gifting!” I mentioned before I’m not particularly good at general “playing” with my kids. Meaning anything which involves freestyle imagination. My brain shuts down and I’m left wearing lots of beads, a tiara and [...]
Finfare for the Common Tot
by Isabel
By Eden Marriott Kennedy You should have heard my son, Jackson, when he first got his hands on this pop-up book. He opened the first page and shouted, “WOW!” He turned the next page and became thoroughly entranced. “WOW,” he said. I left him in silence at the dining room table to go unload the [...]
Dream, Draw and Dress
by Isabel
By Melissa Summers Letting my daughter create her own t-shirt has been a lesson in letting go. When I first opened the package of Peace Monkey’s Do-It-Yourself Tees, I was instantly struck with the kind of crippling anxiety which will only grip an anally-retentive adult when faced with a permanent marker, a t-shirt and an [...]
Alpha Mom’s Favorite Gift for the Holidays: Last Minute Idea
by Isabel
By Heather B. Armstrong of dooce.com When the Buddha Board arrived and I removed the red laptop from its sleek packaging my husband had to pick his jaw up off the floor. “You shouldn’t have!” he said, convinced I had bought him a new computer. “I didn’t!” I shot back, hiding the tablet behind my [...]
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