Not exactly hi-tech, although the bright yellow digital camera for kids is by Memorex, but you do get the fun of slipping off SpongeBob's pants when you want to reveal the USB thingie, to plug in the camera and download your photographs... [read more]
So, you want your kid to have a bedroom that's decorated to match his dreams -- but you don't want to spend much money? Well, here's one incredibly frugal solution to that decorating dilemma: Block Posters lets you send any image from your computer (up to 1 MB size file), slice it up, print it out, and turn it into a giant wall poster -- free!
I’ve just been introduced to an interesting little company called Five Humans. Besides having a great name going for them, they’ve got a great mission statement, the “self appointed task of curing ignorance through hip, fashionable clothing.
Basically, Five Humans creates high-quality t-shirts that help you to raise awareness for a cause that’s important to you and your family — like the plight of autistic children, or cancer, diabetes, asthma, heart disease…
Cool Mom Picks says it best:
“When there’s a cause near and dear to my heart, I have no problems letting my child’s chest be a billboard for raising awareness.”
No kid? No worries — T-shirts from Five Humans come in adult sizes, so grown-up men and women can be useful and fashionable billboards for a good cause, too.
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Arts and Crafts This was a spur-of-the-moment craft project, instigated by my young friend Kelly (who was spending March break with her grandmother, our next-door neighbour) and carried out on…
Monopoly RulesI remember playing Monopoly with my dad.
He taught me many things about wheeling and dealing.
Whenever he purchased Boardwalk, he would ceremoniously place the card into his shirt pocket, symbolically telling me that I would NEVER get it. Mostly, I remember that he would nearly always win.
Yet, my fondest memories are of his creation of a game called Card Monopoly.
He made it with a deck of cards and two record album covers slit open and taped together. The rules were simple, requiring only a second deck of cards, two dice and a couple of tokens. We played quite a few games of Card Monopoly.
I remember thinking that my dad was a genius to be able to invent a game.
Dad went on to create many more games, including a computer word game! He instilled in me a love for making games. He also tempered my competitive nature.
Now, as a father, it’s my turn.
With five children, the fun is amplified. We have made up games as one group. We have made games for each other as Christmas presents. We have done solo efforts and used each other as play testers…
So, how did all this come about?
Come take a trip back in time, when the children were young and impressionable…
The seven boys and their coach’s wife died in a highway accident on their way home from a basketball game on the weekend — just minutes away from their hometown of Bathurst, New Brunswick. Today, schools and families all across Canada pay their respects as thousands attended the funeral for the seven lost members of the team known as The Boys in Red.
There have been some amazing tributes…
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Can the way you shape your family's Christmas traditions help your kids to avoid those adult diet pitfalls? Our favourite guest foodie, Guilherme Zo'C, thinks so — and he makes…