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D+D on PBS: Anatomy of the Perfect Toy

Toys. They’re everywhere these days. Although their natural habitat is a well-organized chest in your child’s room, they frequently migrate to places like the living room, kitchen table, the car, your bed and of course, directly under your feet in a dark hallway in the middle of the night. What’s worse, new toys threaten to […]

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The Junk Drawer

Seven ways to avoid getting hangry at your kids

You know how sometimes every single person around you is totally getting on your nerves? Your kids, your spouse, that driver in front of you…they’re all jerks, right? And so if you decide to snap and go off on them a little (or a lot), it’s 100% justified, because everybody really, really deserves it. Or […]

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Product Reviews

Why We Should Hate Captain Underpants … But Don’t

Violence. Profanity. And characters prancing around in their underwear. Sounds like the ingredients of some R-rated movie that responsible parents like all of us would surely keep far away from our children, doesn’t it? Well we don’t know how to break it to you, but it’s actually a description of Captain Underpants, a series of […]

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The Junk Drawer

D+D on Deadspin: How to Fly with Young Children

You know that feeling you get when you pack some bags, grab your kids, and head to the airport brimming with confidence that your entire family flight experience will be easy, effortless and enjoyable? Of course not. No one does. Because that feeling does not actually exist. But if you’re planning on flying with young children at some […]