Forget the 3D glasses, theater box offices should provide a packet of Kleenex with your movie ticket purchase because there certainly isn’t a shortage of sentimental daddy/daughter plot lines in the multiplexes lately. The Croods continues this heartstrings-a-tugging trend with a none-too-subtle girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy […]
Happy spring, happy baseball season! Here’s the playlist for the April episode of the OWTK Kid’s Music Monthly. Thanks to Lola’s Math Train for sponsoring this episode. Read the OWTK review of the new Nintendo 3DS game, and visit them at LolaPanda.com Underbirds “Bright Leaf” from Underbirds Recess Monkey “Bunk […]
Bird chirps, topped off gas tanks, and the crack of the bat — there isn’t anything quite as beautiful as springtime. Being a homeowner has had a number of strange impacts on me, but the most curious is my inspiring, hopeful gaze out onto my lawn. And THAT is a […]
LEGO Super Heroes Iron Man 3 LEGO Set Reviews by Cooper McHatton Three days at Disneyland, three trips to the LEGO Store! Fully stocked on the shelves was the entire Iron Man 3 LEGO lineup. I was in heaven, inside heaven. There they were, in their shiny red packaging with […]
I formally invite you to join my Kindie Rock Fitness Challenge! The challenge will run for 1 month, beginning on March 26th and ending on April 26th, the opening day of the 2013 Kindiefest Family Music Conference in Brooklyn, NY. Join John Joyce (of Poochamungas) and me as we try […]
This was a first for us. Having had a Nintendo 3DS in the house for just about 3 months (it was a Christmas gift from Santa, one which I discussed at length here), we hadn’t yet ventured out into the virtual video game eShop that sits waiting only a few […]
Last week wrote this piece for The Good Men Project about the Steubenville, OH rape case. I used that forum to reflect on our role as parents and caretakers in preventing assaults of this nature going forward. I believe good parenting will shift the tide, and that we can delicately […]
It is probably very telling that the most endearing characters in Oz The Great and Powerful, the ones with the most emotional gravitas and who demand an audience’s empathy, are a china doll and a bellhop-clad monkey. Because for all the many fanciful things in this new Oz, a real […]
