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How My Mom Became a Member of the TracFone Family
Parenting Blog

How My Mom Became a Member of the TracFone Family

My mom already owns a cell phone. It has a tiny antenna. Need I say any more? As a result of her extremely lo-tech phone situation, she’s gotten into the habit of being one of those people who carries their tablet — and not one of the mini variety — […]

My Daughters’ Top Four Reasons For Loving Project Mc² on Netflix
OWTK TV News

My Daughters’ Top Four Reasons For Loving Project Mc² on Netflix

Project Mc² is a brand new show for girls who exist in the 21st-century’s O.M.G. L.O.L. pop culture world but do so not at the expense of their wit and smarts. Project Mc² is a show for and about confident young women who are brilliant and funny, and who aren’t […]

OWTK Kid’s Music Monthly Podcast August 2015 Playlist
OWTK Kid's Music Monthly Podcast

OWTK Kid’s Music Monthly Podcast August 2015 Playlist

The August episode of the podcast has been so graciously sponsored by . Check out their BYOP 4G LTE deal and their super rad TMNT kid’s phone bundle complete with a turtle shell phone case and a year of NQ Family Guardian monitoring service. Here’s the playlist for the August […]

The Perfect Family Car for a Cross Country Road Trip
Travel

The Perfect Family Car for a Cross Country Road Trip

  From the lofty heights of the continental divide some 12,000 feet into the Colorado Rocky Mountains, with snowcapped peaks piercing heavenly blue skies, to the dramatic depths and oppressive heat of Badwater Basin, a staggering 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley National Park in California; and then […]

A Mid-Summer Snowball Fight
Photos of Growing Up

A Mid-Summer Snowball Fight

Cross country road trip highlight? There were many, but the mid-summer snowball fight we had 13,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains ranks way, way, way up on the list.

A Surprising Weekend With Kids in Indiana
Travel

A Surprising Weekend With Kids in Indiana

When the rotten winds of hateful politics blew through the state of Indiana earlier this year, I looked at that one night on our cross country itinerary and cringed. Do we have to pass through a place that has made it okay, and even celebrated in some circles, to not […]

How To Road Trip
Photos of Growing Up

How To Road Trip

This is how to road trip. Give them stickers and duct tape and pipe cleaners and scissors and glue and tape and…don’t turn around. They will have the time of their lives and you will, well, you will stay sane. This photo of the mouse is from day 1. It […]

Hanging On And Letting Go At The City Museum
Photos of Growing Up

Hanging On And Letting Go At The City Museum

It’s not a metaphor. It’s the City Museum in St. Louis, where holding on is every bit as essential as letting go. There’s no place better to be a child in America than this rough and tumble wonderland. Read more about City Museum and other family fun spots in and […]

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