Since puzzles are supposed to be great for developing math skills, I put my daughter through the ultimate test— completing four different beginner jigsaw puzzles.
Yes, I saw the actual tween Dora doll in-person. Read more to learn about the good, the bad and the sparkly.
Dollhouses are a classic and beloved childhood toy. We’ve gathered some of our favorites and are sharing them with you.
How do you get urine smell out of beloved stuffed animals that live in the cribs of toddlers?
Are you considering buying a Furby? This is our third review of Furby as a toy. What’s the verdict?
We’ve put some award-winning board games for school-aged children through their paces to see which ones we like best.
in 2013, there were 113 children’s products recalled. Whoa. I couldn’t name one of them. However, Empowered SAFETY does all the legwork for you.
This year we pick a dozen toys on a various Holiday Hot Toy Lists to test out ourselves. Learn which toys we would recommend buying, consider skipping and avoiding altogether.
This week, I continued to play board games and dice games with my toddler, trying to teach her valuable lessons in counting, taking turns and good sportsmanship.
I love the vocabulary lesson these books give my kids. It’s fun to hear them come up with different parts of speech. Give them a try with your kids.
Apparently, regular wooden blocks are SO TODDLER 2011 and I should get with the times. So this week my young child played with some of the more innovative beginner building sets to see what they offer.
Sprinkler meets beach ball.
There are a ton of game options for the younger and older crowds, but finding something in the middle of too babyish and too mature isn’t easy. But we found some great choices.
Check out some of these awesome outdoor toys we reviewed. They have been tested by my children and a few neighbors and any other kid that looked bored. And some of these toys definitely got the Alpha Mom Favorite award!
For my toddler’s first foray into the world of games, I played four different toddler card games to see which she responded to the best.
Furby is back and is a supposed Hot Holiday Toy for 2012. My family, which includes an almost three year old, has lived with it for three weeks. Here’s our Furby recommendation.
‘I Never Forget a Face’ is a fabulous matching game. The sweet and colorful illustrations of children from Tanzania, India, Iraq, and Israel, to name a few, beat pixels any day.
Check out how a master block builder makes you your very own creation solely out of innovative Tegu magnetic wooden blocks.
It’s all about Alice now that Tim Burton’s big screen-version has opened. It reminds me how we all went gaga over Where the Wild Things Are this past autumn. So here are some of our favorite Alice in Wonderland lovely things out there.
Deciding whether to get your child(ren) a learning tablet? We review the LeapPad Ultra and the Tabeo e2.