To say that publishing is going through an upheaval is perhaps an understatement. But the movement from print to digital is not only changing the business models of book publishers, it is also changing what we actually read. When I first had The Kid I was looking forward to reading [...]
“Sometimes I feel the only thing keeping us together is fear of the children.” – The New Yorker. I think parents today are torn between fear for and fear of their kids. We’re afraid to let them out on their own, but then we’re also afraid of what will become of [...]
If Raymond Chandler wrote books for children, you might mistake Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? for something penned by him. Instead, David Levinthal and John Nickel, have reinvented Philip Marlowe in the form of a tough talking frog named Officer Binky, who investigates long-running unsolved fairytales and hands out justice. Here’s a small sample: [...]
When my son was almost due to arrive, I leaned over, put my hand on my wife’s belly and whispered to him, “Don’t worry, the circumcision won’t hurt a bit.” Sure enough, he wasn’t fooled in the least and refused to come out. My wife had to have a c-section [...]
At least culturally, dads have been strapping on the Baby Bjorn for a nanosecond of parenting history. Along the way, they have taken to their laptops and smartphones, blogging and tweeting about their victories and defeats on a battlefield littered with one-eyed Elmos and broken iPhones. At the end of January, [...]
Sometimes the Super Bowl is known more for what happens off the field (think wardrobe malfunction) than for the actual plays during the game. So in that spirit, here is a list of my favorite Super Bowl XLVIII tweets. I am sure there will be more during and after the game. [...]
What is the perfect toy? It’s easy to say that it’s in the eye of the beholder. But I think there’s a way of looking at it that many of us might be able to agree upon. I used to get a little frustrated when my two year old Picasso [...]
Take one geek dad and four children who refuse to be separated from their iPad and you get #fourlittletesters, a family app testing team from Australia that tests the best apps for kids. Andy Battle and his children, aged 10, 9, 6 and 4, not only evaluate apps for us, [...]