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Free Bilingual Education Kit Giveaway: Kids’ Candor

How many languages does your child speak? One? Dos? 更多? A constantly growing stack of research shows that kids who can speak multiple languages have a serious advantage over kids who speak only one. Being bilingual can make kids better able to focus attention. It can help them learn additional languages more easily. And it […]

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Building the perfect LEGOLAND vacation

Want to take your little ones on a fun theme park vacation this summer? Mickey Mouse isn’t the only game in town! Although we’ve enjoyed our family trips to Disneyland a couple of times in the past, we recently took our three kids to LEGOLAND for the first time – and it definitely won’t be […]

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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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Five things never to say at the family dinner table

If you’ve spent much time on our site, you may know that we’re big fans of the good old fashioned family dinner. When your family regularly sits down to distraction-free, conversation-filled meals, your kids really come out ahead. But what should your dinnertime conversations be about? We used to think pretty much anything was fair […]

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Free Book Giveaway: Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater

Does feeding your kids feel like a fight? Well take off your boxing gloves, and put on your oven mitts. Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater: A Stage-by-Stage Guide to Setting Your Child on the Path to Adventurous Eating is here to help. And guess what? The Doctor and the Dad are giving away a free […]

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Book Review: ‘Last Night I Had a Laughmare’ by J.E. Laufer

We’re reviewing gifts this holiday season! We’ve already told you about the best and second best gifts for parents ever, and now we’ve got a one for the kids in your life. Last Night I Had a Laughmare, written by J.E. Laufer and illustrated by Jeff Yesh, is a whimsical, rhyming story about a fantastical […]

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Why ‘Shimmer and Shine’ is not the worst kids TV show ever

Our kids recently discovered a new Nick Jr. cartoon called Shimmer and Shine. Our initial thoughts about the show were: “Oh no, not another show to watch.” “The music in this thing is excruciating.” “Why are these animated prepubescent genie children wearing so much makeup?” But after overhearing enough fragments of the show ourselves – […]