GeekDad Review: Puro Sound BT2200 Children’s Headphones
If you are looking of a great gift or replacement headphones for a young person, I would recommend the Puro Sound BT2200s.
Continue ReadingIf you are looking of a great gift or replacement headphones for a young person, I would recommend the Puro Sound BT2200s.
Continue ReadingJohn Palfrey and Urs Gasser have updated ‘Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age.’
Continue ReadingI don’t know about you guys, but I can never do all the things. Today, I’m going to tell you how I taught my 4-year-old to do laundry.
Continue ReadingFirst off, it’s never about the sport. At least not for me. It’s about the athletes; where they are, where they want to go, and what they need to get there.
Continue ReadingDr. Rochelle Caruso Flynn’s children’s book offers an introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders from her unique perspective as a pediatrician, an author, and a person living on the spectrum herself.
Continue ReadingIntroducing your family to cosplay can be daunting! In this series, learn the basics about cosplay, including resources, tutorials, and tips to help turn your child into a confident and skilled costume extraordinaire!
Continue ReadingHow could I expect Leo’s peers to understand and connect with him if his own mother didn’t always understand him?
Continue ReadingOddly is every normal kid who feels a bit quirky and out of place. Half witch and half human, her adventures begin as she wishes her parents away.
Continue ReadingThinking of taking one or more of the littles to a large comic convention? Find a guide to how to stay sane with younger kids (think under 10 years old) and, specifically, what NYCC has to offer.
Continue ReadingRecent events in Charleston, South Carolina, have me dwelling on one of the great parenting struggles: the challenge of maintaining a child’s innocence while living in a world wrought with so many unconscionable acts. Using Jon Stewart’s already notorious ‘Daily Show’ monologue as a jumping off point, I explore the hard questions of what to share and how to share the truth of tragedy with children.
Continue Reading‘My Little Pony’ is hitting the DVD shelves with their latest episode collection: ‘Cutie Mark Quests.’
Continue ReadingI’ve been thrilled with the Scholastic and Energizer “Power Up and Read” program for the summer, running from May 4th – September 4th, 2015.
Continue ReadingMarch 4, 2015 is World Read Aloud Day! Why not start an adventure with your child–toddler or teen–today?
Continue ReadingHow can kids help their parents do their daily tasks? Rory reveals his Top 10 ways to include kids in the activity at hand.
Continue Reading“I am a bad mother.” It’s a thought that has gone through all of our heads at least once, possibly daily. In the era of picture-perfect Pinterest parenting, the feelings of inadequacy come easily.
Continue ReadingYou’d be surprised that doing many of the things parents think will avoid issues of racism in their kids may in fact reinforce them.
Continue ReadingSo somebody over at the Huffington Post wrote this thing about raising boys, and the blogosphere went a little crazy. It seems some of her observations were a little on the obvious side, and at least a couple of them read to some folks as more than a little sexist. So let’s take a look. You can read the original over at the Huffington Post; here are my comments.
Continue ReadingOne of our jobs as parents is to keep our kids learning, keeping them curious about the world and
adapting to changes in society. This is actually not difficult to do, but it does take effort, and
learning about how kids learn is extremely helpful for this task. The Curiosity Cycle will help you accomplish this.
The only time I stood up to my bullying stepfather was about Star Trek.
Continue ReadingOn October 28, 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new recommendations calling on parents to severely limit the time their children spend in front of a screen. These recommendations arise from studies that have largely debunked the myth of “educational” media, especially for children under 2 years of age, and show even in older children a correlation between total hours of screen time and childhood obesity, lack of sleep, school problems, aggression and other behavior issues. As a geek that has spent many happy hours in front of various screens, I don’t want to believe that exposing my child to many of the things I love could be harmful. But as a dad I have to seriously consider the possibility.
Continue ReadingAs every Peppa Pig fan knows, there’s nothing better than jumping in muddy puddles. However, if muddy puddles are in short supply, the new Daddy Pig’s Puddle Jump app is certainly a good substitute.
Continue ReadingIn Tanzania, scientists recently used a mobile phone equipped with a makeshift microscope to diagnose intestinal parasites.
Continue ReadingTouringplans.com is a website that claims to have the power to save you four hours of waiting in line in a single day at the Disney theme parks. With touring plans, crowd calendar and a wait time app, Touringplans.com has everything you need to plan out and enjoy your day. The trick is making sure you follow their advice and not wander off.
Continue ReadingJedi Noah Larkin was a very special boy to my 501st Legion garrison. We had the honor of helping him celebrate his birthday last year and this year, we helped honor him at this memorial service in Kissimmee, Florida.
Continue ReadingThe kind folks at Amber Alert recently offered me the chance to test out their latest child GPS tracking device, and I couldn’t think of any better time and place to try it out than on vacation. So, I charged …
Continue ReadingWriting teachers Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Barry Lane have teamed up to remind parents and policymakers that children are much more than a score on a standardized test.
Continue ReadingIn a perfect world, I wouldn’t be a klutz and I would never drop my phone. On the off chance that something happened to my device, like my six-year old son, it would survive the experience unscathed. Yea…I’ll hang on to that pipe dream. The reality is that phones get dropped. If you have children, regardless of how high you put your phone, eventually they will get their hands on it . So, what is the best way to protect your device? That’s a question I have been asking myself since I first got my iPhone last year.
Continue ReadingThat was this week’s theme as I rush around trying to start a business from scratch. And the marketers have told me to not forget the kids. Kids may not have most of the money in our economy, but pretty …
Continue ReadingMaurice Sendak passed away Tuesday due to complications from a recent stroke. He was 83. Sendak wrote and illustrated dozens of children’s books, which earned plenty of recognition, including the prestigious Caldecott Medal and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. His …
Continue ReadingEver since he was able to look at a book, my son (6) has been fascinated by superheros, comic books and anything remotely sci fi. Whenever he was asked what he wanted to do when he grew up, he …
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