Welcome back! This week we sit down with the CEO & Founder of Putumayo World Music and the boys of Recess Monkey! Dan Storper Storper is the CEO & Founder of Putumayo, the world music label that has sold more than 20 million CDs since it began in 1993. Putumayo […]
As colorful as LEGO construction in the physical world and as architecturally engaging as the pop culture phenomenon Minecraft in the virtual one, Toca Builders is a sheer delight for children. This brand new app is Toca Boca’s finest hour. And for anyone who has ever played, or watched their child […]
This post is brought to you by ConAgra Foods and The Motherhood, and I’ve been compensated for my time. However, all opinions are my own, as always. During this Hunger-Free Summer campaign over the past few weeks, I learned that my daughters’ school does not participate in a program that […]
Some three decades after my first go-around with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it’s once again ‘cowabunga time’ as my girls (and our cat) recently discovered, and have fallen in love with, the hard shelled pranksters Leonardo and Michelangelo, Donny and Raph. My memory, while still holding down the fort at […]
We’ve got some heavyweights in this edition of the Music Video Therapy session! Hey, school’s out, you’re gonna need something to occupy the kiddos! Sit back and enjoy five terrific videos from the world of kindie music. Oh, and this just in! Entertainment Weekly has the premiere of “Shrimp” from […]
I wanted to have Mouse’s school buds, the ones who came to her paint-yer-own-pottery party two weeks ago, over to the house for an end of school par-tay, a brief frolic in the meadow, er, backyard, to pick up their finished gnomes and glazed dragons, and to say fare-thee-well to […]
Welcome to the 2nd installment of OWTK Summer Move Monday. This week, we have another fine author & illustrator and a talented kindie musician sharing their fave movies and movie food! Miss the first one last week? Check out Kate Messner and Frances England! Bryan Langdo Langdo is the author […]
Quick, run-don’t-walk-but-don’t-trip-over-your-own-feet-ya-dunce to your local bookstore and buy your baby daddy a book that’ll make him misty-eyed from the copious amount of gut-laughter he’ll experience while reading it. *Note: this is the kind of book non-readers will like to read. I promise. Family-friendly (hehe) comedian Jim Gaffigan’s first book, Dad […]
