Kid’s Toys We WISH They Made

New from the Lego Bionicle Line – Toa Mata Hari! One of the rare female Bionicles, she’s had most of the others, and they’re all in love with her. You can play with her as she plays the guys off against one another! Isn’t she FABULOUS! American Girl Doll – Sybil! With completely different outfits […]

“The Captain, he’s been a-drinkin’, oh!”

The Baby on the Bus says, “Waa waa waa!” / And all the other parents on the Bus give it’s mommy dirty looks.

Twitter Tweens

If you don’t have kids but you’re thinking about it, and you’d like to see what it’s like, the Internet now makes it possible to simulate the, um, experience. Just living with anyone, never mind the ADD types, under the age of 14, is to live in the bottom of a permanent, live-feed twitter well.

a brief gender gap

I’d like to take a moment of your time to discuss a brief gender gap. If you have multiple children of both genders, or if you teach kids under the age of, say, 18, you’re probably already aware of this difference between boys and girls. If you teach kids under the age of 8, you’re […]

Hijacking this post

So there we were earlier this school year, driving – again – to school.  You wouldn’t think a lot could happen on a drive like this, because it’s not yet 8 in the morning and we’re only driving 5 blocks away.  You would be wrong.  For those of you scoring at home, “not yet 8 […]