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Ridiculous Parenting Products

January 27, 2009

Ok, so I saw this on the Cookie Magazine site today and I just had to share. They put together a list of silly parenting products and boy are they ridiculous! Just take the above Take out time out mat. The good people at Cookie are concerned about the possible effects of public humiliation. Ya [...]

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This Year’s Champion 6th Birthday Present Is…

November 30, 2008

The Lego Star Wars video game. That’s right, not just a Star Wars video game, but a Lego Star Wars video game. I believe it is technically called Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. The characters are all made of Legos and they don’t die when they get shot, they just fall into their [...]

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What is Bakugan And Why Are My Kids Willing to Sell Their Sister To Get Them?

November 13, 2008
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Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Book Review

October 28, 2008

I never had this book as a child, but Mrs TR did and it was one of her favorites.  Everyone has a bad day every once in a while, and Alexander here has a pretty terrible one.
It’s a frequent request by the Boys at bedtime and a great lesson on how sometimes life stinks but [...]

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How Young Is Too Young for Clone Wars?

August 29, 2008

Wordpress gives you the ability to see what search terms people used to find your blog posts, and I’ve been seeing a whole lot of these types of searches on this blog lately:
“is clone wars scary for six year olds”
“too young clone wars”
“how old for clone wars”
“clone wars under seven”
And so on.  It’s people finding [...]

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Gifts For Kids – 8 Tips For Choosing Unique Kids Toys

August 20, 2008

Last week we published Gifts for Kids – The 6 Biggest Mistakes as a guideline for how to avoid gift giving disaster.  This week we’re following up with advice on how to give that perfect unique gift for a child.
Know Your Audience
Use what you know about either the child or the parents to guide your decision.  [...]

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How Young is Too Young for Star Wars

August 16, 2008

Both of our two boys (5.75 year old twins) have been begging me to let them watch Star Wars lately, Speedy in particular.  We don’t watch a great deal of TV in our house, trying to keep it under 5 hours a week of select programming, mainly from PBS (We’re big fans of Fetch!), and [...]

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