Weekend Box Office: Expendables Extends Its Eminence
The Expendables 2 easily fought off three new movies over the weekend. Here is the Top 10 for August 24 – 26, 2012.
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Tragedy in Colorado: How It Affects Younger Kids
We were as shocked as the nation was to wake up on Friday morning and hear of the attack on moviegoers at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” This senseless, random horror makes no sense to us – or anyone – and our hearts and thoughts go out to the families and friends of all those affected.
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The End of Civilization—No Really, I Mean it This Time
My good friend Lenore Skenazy over at Free Range Kids tipped me off to a story in the New York Times about an alarming new product—food pouches for kids. The basic idea seems to be that when the young ‘uns are hungry, you just strap on the feedbag. Or in this case, hand them an expensive pouch with some processed foodstuff that lets the little tikes suck out a meal, rather than eating. The inventor says this helps busy parents keep their kids fed without the fuss of having to prepare a meal. He also confuses Lenore’s concept of being “free range”—learning to be responsible for one’s life without a parent hovering over every second—with being so over-schedued that there’s never time to eat.
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Making Messy Messes
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of talking to a lot of moms about a wide variety of products from child development to education to politics. I feel incredibly lucky to be able to have this level of face-to-face dialogue in an often exclusively virtual world.
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Please Try This At Home: Fun With Language
When I was a kid, my family loved word games—Scrabble, Anagrams a now sadly long-forgotten game from Parker Brothers called Probe. We would banter in puns and parody and in our home being quick-witted was the same as being a sports star.
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My Trot Through BroNYCon
This past weekend I ventured to BroNYCon at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. I had been to conferences like GenCon and Comic-Con before, but this was different. Leading up to the event, I really didn’t know what to expect and was a little apprehensive. It appeared a little odd to me; a convention for Bronies, mostly males 18+ who are huge fans of “My Little Pony Friendship is Magic,” a show whose target audience is 2 – 6 year old girls.
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Toys for Kids with Special Needs
Timetoplaymag.com has launched a section featuring toys for kids that have special needs. We wanted our section to be different. Following our Real Parents/Real Reviews, instead of working with doctors we wanted advice from parents that have children with special needs and the experience is hands on. Working with Emily Vanek, our “Colorado Mom”, we’re thrilled to debut our section, which features ten different categories of toys. We’d love to hear any feedback or thoughts about this section.
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Wacky Video Break: Not-Crazy Cat Lady’s Crazy Cat House
Today’s Wacky Video Break is a “news” clip from a Fox affiliate in Texas. A Harry Potter fan who claims she isn’t a crazy cat lady, hired an incredibly talented carpenter to build a 9-foot tall cat house …
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Wacky Video Break: The Mommy Tummy Simulator
Who doesn’t love a great and wacky video from the Internet?
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Game News: DreamWorks Super Star Kartz
Activision announces DreamWorks Super Star Kartz.
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Netflix Testing New Kid’s Section
Netflix is testing out a new kid-friendly section of its website.
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Weekend Box Office:America Loves Captain America
Weekend box office recap for for the weekend of July 22-24, 2011
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Space Shuttle Launch from Student Balloon
Give me a balloon in the summer and I’ll fill it with water. Give one to a group of students in California and they will turn it into a shuttle camera.
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The Many Jobs of Troy McClure
You might remember Troy McClure from one of his many memorable jobs on The Simpsons but do you remember him from these?
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Summer Civics Lesson
School’s out, but there are always opportunities for learning. This summer, the tragic case of the murder of Caylee Anthony gives us a chance to talk with kids about our court system and how it works, reality—and the media. If you haven’t followed this, a young mother Casey Anthony was accused of murdering her preschool
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LEGO Builder Creates Sweet Lord of the Rings Tower
A LEGO builder created Sauron’s Tower (Barad-Dur) from Lord of the Rings and it is all sorts of impressive.
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X-Wing Fighter Soapbox Derby Car
A fellow Star Wars fans creates an amazing X-Wing Soapbox Derby car. Who knew Soapbox Derbies still existed?
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LEGO MBA
We recently met with the LEGO team in their headquarters in which they filled us in on some exciting news. LEGO is launching a Master Building Academy (MBA) to teach children of all ages to become Master Builders. The first kit, Space Designer, is available June 1. What is a Master Builder? Stealing a line
Keeping Summer Safe… And Sane
Summertime is all about great play—and at our recent Spring & Summer Showcase, we got to play with a wide variety of creative, engaging toys designed to make the summer fun for kids.
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Zen and the Art of Toy Assembly
That grinding sound you hear is my teeth, and that loud crash you just heard was me throwing a toy against the way.
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25 Years of Pixar Animation
Are you a fan of Pixar animations? Check out this compilation celebrating 25 Years of Pixar Animation. Feature films in the video: Toy Story (1995) A Bug’s Life (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) Monster’s Inc. (2001) Finding Nemo (2003) The Incredibles (2004) Cars (2006) Ratatouille (2007) WALL-E (2008) Up (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) Cars
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