I’ll give you the mountains-meeting-the-sea, picturesque cliffs, and the general mystique of left coast life. You win. But if you’re a music loving family, you can’t beat being a parent on the East Coast. Consider the summer kid’s concert series at Wolf Trap’s Theatre-In-The-Woods and the ’12-’13 Just Kidding Season […]
The Mrs. has offered to pen her first guest post for OWTK. All it took was a 6 year wait and a promise to rub her feet. Not a bad trade. Here she dishes on some ideas for occupying children on a loooooong road trip without using DVD players (shock!) […]
Surely there are worse things in the world; pink slime, Bratz dolls, and the thought of yet another Ice Age movie quickly come to mind. The Bear and Mouse both have become enamored with hotel fitness centers. Being inspired by an up-too-early, breathing-too-heavy dad is a curious thing. Yet they’ve […]
Anything that can induce as much genuine gut-laughter as the card & prop game 100 Wacky Things is destined to go down as nothing less than a legendary family activity. The game is built around a series of sometimes and all the time mandated actions on cards that may at […]
LUNCH MONEY SPICY KID You could almost see it. You could almost imagine pulling open one of those secret compartments on the side of a child’s jewelry box revealing the inside of that itsy bitsy space designed to hide away not much more than a stray fallen gem from an […]
This song, from Dog on Fleas’ latest album Invisible Friends, is nothing short of brilliant. Bizarre (what the heck is this lucky creature?) and hummable, “Fortunate Mistake” is simply a wonderful tune for families to sing together as they try to figure out just what it is all about. The […]
Here’s the scene: It is 75 degrees, sunny, and breezy. Assuming you’re not a crazed storm chaser or a gloomy Gus, this day equates to absolute perfection here in SE Pennsylvania. We haven’t been outside for a minute of it, not even a gulp of the fresh cool air has […]
Neither have you. I’ll start there, because neither of us have ever heard of the Race Across America, also called “The World’s Toughest Bicycle Race. And I reckon many of you have no idea what SenseAware is. I’ve got a handle on all of it now thanks to Dad Central, […]
