Sorting through youth entertainment so you don't have to.
You know a book’s exciting to a kid if a second-grader gets so excited when he sees it that he can’t wait to get home to share it with his mom and younger brother. Such was the case recently when Big Guy spied “Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot” at our local library. The book actually [...]
Shopping for clothing with kids is bad enough, but it becomes virtually impossible when a kid wearing pale-yellow paints and with an arrow eye-linered onto a freshly shaved scalp pops around the corner. “Hey, guys, look! It’s Aang!” I called. “Aang” and Big Guy quickly became fast friends, following each other all over the store. [...]
Happy. What is up with this one emotion that is valued above and beyond all others? And when did we get suckered into using it as a benchmark of success in our lives? Even more boggling, nowadays, moms and dads are responsible for their kid’s maintained level of euphoria. Why else would so many parenting [...]
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