Tag: kids

  • 18 Tabletop games that are great for kids

    18 Tabletop games that are great for kids

    Our family has a lot of board games. Gaming has always been a huge part of how we entertain ourselves and also an important part of our kids’ education. But typical “educational games” are almost uniformly awful. And unnecessary — all games can be educational in one way or another, whether they use math or…

  • Role Playing Games for kids

    Role Playing Games for kids

    Our son loves reading.  He’s recently gotten way into The Magic Treehouse series and we’ve since completed the full series (all 45 books!).  It occurred to me, since he’s so interested in storytelling, that he might be into those Choose-Your-Own Adventure books that I wasted my youth reading and re-reading until every possible scenario had…

  • Free Halloween Blogger Template: Pumpkin Patch

    Celebrate Autumn. Revel in harvest. Decorate with pumpkins. Dress up your blog for Halloween. This fall blogger template is just the right balance of cute and all grown up, conjuring crisp weather, rich autumn colors and the smell of pumpkin pie. …

  • Pumpkin Patch

    Celebrate Autumn. Revel in harvest. Decorate with pumpkins. Dress up your blog for Halloween. This fall blogger template is just the right balance of cute and all grown up, conjuring crisp weather, rich autumn colors and the smell of pumpkin pie. It would be a perfect choice for Halloween if spooky isn’t your thing, or… (read…

  • aaand this is why digg > slashdot

    so, don’t get me wrong.  i ♥ slashdot, i even like reading the comments for their biting snark, but it’s pretty much a given that if you post something stupid, lame, or sentimental, by anyone‘s standards, you’re asking for a lashing on the old /. sometime over the summer or early in the year there…

  • the not-so-hidden value of netflix

    i’m pretty much completely in love with netflix. it started with some casual experimentation through a friend during college.  he had a netflix subscription and we’d often get triple features of obscure asian action flicks (digging deep in the early career of jet li with the once upon a time in china series — which i highly recommend,…

  • new guest post at the kidsblog

    drink yr poot

  • gavin’s first movie, take two

    this time hosted by the new jazzsequence community network site. w00t.