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We did it over Thanksgiving. We did it at Christmas. And now we’re doing again to ring in the new year! When we sat down with our four-year-old daughter Sammy and her two-year-old brother Freddy to show them “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown” for the very first time last week, we did more than just […]
All the Peanuts holiday TV specials came out approximately forever ago. So for grownups like us who have seen them a good thirtysomething times by now, they’re not particularly new or exciting anymore. Unless you watch them with your kids, of course. When our family checked out “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” together a couple weeks ago, […]
Most of us adults have been exposed to Peanuts comic strips and cartoons since we were children. So by the time we become parents, we know exactly what to expect each time another Charlie Brown holiday special hits the air. But for our kids, it’s a whole other story. When our four-year-old daughter Sammy watched […]
Ever since our kids first developed the ability to hear (by around 28 weeks after conception), the Doctor and the Dad have loved sharing music with them. There are lots of great scientific reasons to do it – music promotes kids’ language development, creativity and concentration, for example. But mostly we do it because it’s […]
If you haven’t seen the HBO documentary State of Play: Trophy Kids because you’ve been too busy reading to, playing with and generally showing love and respect toward your children, you should check it out sometime. It’s a fascinating look into a parenting technique – or should we say over-parenting technique – that you probably […]
We recently debuted Elf on the Shelf in our house. In case you haven’t already heard of it, EOTS is the newest craze in holiday-themed kid control. If the thought of Santa simply knowing whether your children are bad or good isn’t enough to prevent them from engaging in sleighfuls of coal-worthy behavior, you can […]
The Original Mother Goose, illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright, is a collection of nursery rhymes that has been sitting on our daughter’s bookshelf since before she was born. It’s a big, heavy, hardbound thing with pages pretty enough to make you worry about them getting ripped apart whenever your youngster starts flipping through it. But […]