You Know, for Kids

We always feel a bit guilty when we let our two sons sit watching videos for long periods of time. But let's face it: Sometimes it...

The good news first: The fourth album from the Okee Dokee Brothers, the guys who helped bring bluegrass into the modern kindie-music mix,...

I've written a few times before about the wonderful Scholastic Storybook Treasures series of DVDs, which created animated shorts out of ...

You know how, at certain points in parenthood, you foolishly think you have it all down? Having covered this beat in its various forms for ...

I'll get back to my final toys wrap-up post shortly, but I'm going to insert my video-of-the-year post first. It's not precisel...

I suspect that most parents have seen Toy Story 3   by now, either in the theater this summer or on DVD since its recent release. (In the la...

For his first year-plus, it seemed as if our younger son, Griffin, had no interest in television whatsoever. This was one of those facts th...

Continuing from my recent post: favorite kids’ DVDs, non-Pixar edition. Wallace & Gromit. Another case in which the hype is entirel...

I haven’t posted much about kids’ movies since starting this blog, mainly because I haven’t felt I had much to say beyond the obvious. ( Pix...

I always kept five or six of my favorite childhood chapter books on my shelves, all the way through adolescence and young adulthood and mar...

A friend writing a story about a backyard movie party asked me the other day for some good “summer movie” recommendations for kids—that i...

Among all the kids’ stuff scattered around our homes, there are those precious go-to items: the books, music, videos, and games our kids re...