We Love Music! And American Pie…

I noticed this today and just had to bring it to your attention. I believe in living life with passion and, apparently, the good people of the great city of Grand Rapids, Michigan do, too. Watch this: Newsweek reported the city as one of America’s dying cities and they made this video to prove them [...]

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If Your Kids Love Math…

…or if they’re having any trouble understanding trigonometry, I have a site for you! I believe in the magic of math (but that’s a blog post for another day) so when I found Touch Trigonometry via  StumbleUpon, I was thrilled. You have to visit the site to fully appreciate it (and take advantage of the [...]

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Release Date: May 23

You know how much my family and I loved Super Mario Galaxy on Wii? We put it on our list of favorite video games of 2007 and even referred to it as the best game of all time. So you can imagine how excited we are about the coming release of the sequel, Super Mario [...]

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Read a Book, Give a Book

Regular readers of this blog know how much I love books. I’ve co-chaired the Book Fair at our kids’ school for several years, taught Junior Great Books (another program I strongly support) and, for a brief time, considered starting another blog devoted to books. I love books. I encourage my kids (and others’) to read. [...]

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A Life-Sized Mouse Trap (sort of)

If you or your kids are fans of this game or this, then you just have to watch this: __________________________________________________________

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Some Kids Want You to See The Lightning Thief

At their urging, the following is a guest post written by my children: You may have heard of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the movie that came out Friday, February 12, 2010. Many people have been calling it a Harry Potter knock off. To begin with, the book series is not another [...]

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Basketball Players as Puppets

If you’re familiar with Kobe, LeBron and Nike, you might enjoy this: You know about LeBron’s chalk thing? Then you’ll like this one:

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Federer Makes It Sixteen!

Congratulations to Roger Federer on winning his sixteenth Grand Slam title at the 2010 Australian Open. It’s his first slam as a dad. Wonderful win. Visit the Australian Open website for more info.

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The iPad

I admit that I am not crazy about the name but I’m thrilled about the new device Steve Jobs presented at this year’s WWDC. The iPad. Ahhh…soak in its loveliness. My favorite part? It’s too hard to choose. hi-res color iBooks, the keyboard dock, the revised iCal (that looks much better (and resembles my ancient [...]

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Our Top 10 Board Games for Preteens

For those of you asking us for recommendations for board games this year (and even for those who didn’t), here’s a quick list. We’ll fill in more information about each game soon. Quelf Quarto Blokus (and/or Blokus Trigon) Blurt Monopoly Bop It (not a board game, but highly addictive & fun!) Apples to Apples Milles [...]

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