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A family of 5 reviews the Captain Underpants movie (in between fart jokes)

In case you’ve been living under a whoopee cushion somewhere, or found yourself in a 3-D-Hypno-Ring-induced trance, or simply don’t live with young kids who are totally into this sort of thing, we thought we should let you know… There’s a Captain Underpants movie now. That’s right, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie hit theaters […]

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Playtime!

Why ‘The BFG’ movie should be a BFD for your family – UPDATED!

This article was originally posted more than two years ago, on May 16, 2014 – as our family was just beginning to anticipate Steven Spielberg’s The BFG movie. Now that it’s finally out (and we’ve finally seen it), we’re back to tell you what we thought. Read the whole post below, or skip ahead to […]

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The Junk Drawer

The best Pre-Baby Bucket List you’ve ever seen

A funny thing happens when you have a kid. YOU DIE. Credit Well technically, you don’t actually die, but a version of you sure does. It’s that version of you that thinks heading out to the bars at 11:30 pm is a good idea. The you that sleeps until noon every single Saturday. And the […]

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Research For 'Rents

Get your game on with D+D at PBS!

The Doctor and the Dad are back with another article on the PBS Parents website, and this one’s all about the big game. No, we’re not talking about the Super Bowl, going rhinoceros hunting, or this ridiculous looking Samuel L. Jackson movie. We’re talking about the games your family plays together as part of a fun […]

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Events

The top 3 reasons children’s bookstores are the best

Want to know why we think children’s bookstores are so great? Check out our top three reasons right here! #3 Children’s bookstores are filled with books. And books are pretty amazing for your kids’ language development, literacy skills, imagination and lots of other stuff. Duh.

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Research For 'Rents

Learning styles: fact or fiction?

What if we told you there was a secret code you could crack that would instantly improve your child’s learning skills? You’d be pretty interested, right? Then what if we told you there was a 200-year-old treasure map hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence, and that we had a foolproof plan to […]

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The Junk Drawer

How having kids changes your life – now in chart form!

So the Doctor and the Dad recently celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary. In addition to giving us a legitimate reason to go out and eat excessive amounts of delicious seafood, this also spurred us to look back at everything we’ve done together over the past nine years. Know what we realized? As of right now, […]