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American Family Adventures Series — The Rose Parade
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American Family Adventures Series — The Rose Parade

Tickets for the 126th Annual Rose Parade are now on sale. Yay! But…but you don’t really need tickets to the Rose Parade to attend the Rose Parade. And you don’t need to spend your New Year’s Eve in a tent on the side of a Pasadena road. I’ll tell you […]

Required Reading: Lorne Jaffe’s 7 Unintentionally Dirty Things I’ve Said to My Kid
Required Reading

Required Reading: Lorne Jaffe’s 7 Unintentionally Dirty Things I’ve Said to My Kid

I’ll concede that the conditions have to be just right. It’d probably help if you’re a parent. If you’ve got a daughter, that’s likely a plus. And having a sense of humor someone might describe as at least ‘slightly askew’ will serve you very well here. If you self-identify with […]

The Amazing Zach Rosenberg Does It Again — 25 Reasons Kids Should Be Left Alone With Their Dads
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The Amazing Zach Rosenberg Does It Again — 25 Reasons Kids Should Be Left Alone With Their Dads

Sometimes, there’s an internet dust-up about kids being left alone with their dads. Oh, this isn’t because something bad happened when a child spent quality alone time with their father, no, this is because some mom with an audience decided to roast all dads by penning some hideous diatribe on […]

New from PBS Kids: Plum Landing
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New from PBS Kids: Plum Landing

Plum Landing is an online environmental science project from PBS Kids that hopes to flick on several switches inside early elementary school age kids at the exact moment in life when their curiosity is peaking and their sense of wonder about the world and how it all works is at […]

Not A Day Goes By
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Not A Day Goes By

Not a day goes by, not a single one, without this girl amazing me. It’s not always a grand gesture, something recordable with modern technology. Not always something to slap onto Instagram. She might look over her shoulder at me with wise eyes or a wry smile or pretend to […]

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OWTK Philly Local: Free Alastair Moock Concert in Malvern

Save for a few gems at The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville each year, it’s rare that the creme de la creme of family music comes to the Philly suburbs. That fact makes this free Alastair Moock concert a must-attend family event at 7pm on May 19th at the People’s Light […]

Curious George Goes To Mars on May 19th
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Curious George Goes To Mars on May 19th

I can only imagine that the set up for this new Curious George episode airing on PBS Kids on May 19th, which sees George and the Man with the Yellow Hat take off for Mars, starts with something like this: “Now George, I need to go over there and speak […]

Zach Rosenberg’s Open Letter To His Son About Microsoft Excel Is Today’s Required Reading
Required Reading

Zach Rosenberg’s Open Letter To His Son About Microsoft Excel Is Today’s Required Reading

Today’s required reading comes from Zach Rosenberg, all around good dude and dad.

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