I’ve written many glowing words on modern indie kid’s music over the past half decade but I’m still prone give the sub-sub-sub genre an occasional WWE top rope smack down too, because song cycles for young ears too often ignore one obvious fact of childhood: moodiness. The best all-ages kindie […]
It’s all connected. All of it. I’ve never had a drink, I’ve never done a single drug, and I try like hell to never look at my phone while at the helm of the family car. My burning desire to be keenly aware for and of every waking moment started […]
“We didn’t fail, we found a new way of doing it wrong.” That sentence, cheerfully said by Anne in the first episode of Amazon’s original live action kid’s show Annedroids, defines the core tenant of inventing. We fail but we do not give up. We fail but we learned something […]
The trio of wide-release animated movies to hit theaters this fall is an early holiday gift for movie loving families. The Box Trolls is pure cinematic magic and The Book of Life is a feast for the senses, but Big Hero 6 is the best animated movie of 2014. I […]
Sure, Disney is nice, and is probably still the glittery gem of Southern California family travel destinations, but there’s a red ruby brick located about an hour south that deserves its own place in your future vacation construction. And there’s no time better to visit LEGOLAND California than on New […]
On our last flight home from wherever we were, we four straddled evenly the center aisle of row 16. Mouse was next to me, in the middle, anxiously waiting to see who would occupy the window seat. The Bear cuddled up next to mommy, an extended-arm’s length away from me […]
Huge thanks to Animal Jam for sponsoring the November 2014 episode of the OWTK Kid’s Music Monthly Podcast. Read my extended thoughts on the National Geographic online social game for kids here but know that this is a fun, free experience that will bring animal loving kids so much joy. […]
The Mouse, age 7, invented a superhero named Rainbow Warrior late last month. Her mind is a wheel that never stops spinning, even when it veers off into a ditch. Round and round and round it goes. She and I created her hero’s logo in Adobe Illustrator and then she […]
