We were warned. Rainbow Loom is taking youth culture by storm in a way not seen since Silly Bands. And we were warned. But unlike those passive shape-based rubber bands, shapes that, regardless of how clever in the package and on the floor waiting to be vacuumed up, take on […]
This month’s podcast is stacked with talent. Like, mucho talent. Primo, high-grade, top shelf talent. Get the point yet? Good. You and your kids are in for a treat, and add to that, several guest appearances by The Bear and Mouse! Here’s what you’ll be hearing on the July episode […]
Welcome to the 4th installment of the summerlong Movie Mondays series on Out With The Kids! This week, we’ve paired up Toca Boca co-founder & CEO Bjorn Jeffery with kindie darling Lori Henriques. Bjorn Jeffery As the co-founder and CEO of Toca Boca, the wildly innovative and highly successful iOS […]
I was with the girls in Whole Foods without much of a menu plan for the week. This is, generally speaking, an awful idea. But free samples awaited us around every turn and so the kids were wearing their Kool-Aid grins tasting fancy cheeses, fruits they already love, and chips […]
I’ve made several arguments in defense of children’s music here and there over the 7 years I’ve been writing Out With The Kids, and I continue to be outwardly critical of the shortcomings in the genre, but Zooglobble’s recently published manifesto on the topic slays the dragon with a measured […]
EPIC PLAYDATE. Those are three pretty rad words, right? EPIC. PLAY. DATE. There’s just no way that something or a collection of somethings, having had such a marquee-quality title bestowed upon it, could be sucky in the least. No. Way. I left a very cush corporate gig five years ago […]
I participated in a campaign on behalf of Dad Central Consulting for AVEENO. I received product samples and a promotional item as a thank you for participating. I haven’t shaved in years. I trim my weird beard once a week or so, more frequently during the hot months, but that […]
Monsters Inc. predates my life as a parent by several years. I reckon the genesis of your relationship with Pixar’s 2001 animated gem isn’t radically different. It was the first family movie I remember loving. I was 25 years old. It should go without saying that it was damn near […]
