by Kate Etue | Holiday Picks
Parents, the vague promise that Santa will come sometime while your kids are asleep just isn’t working anymore. Our kids are too tech savvy. So, for those who are anxious to track Santa’s every move this Christmas Eve, we’ve found three cool sites...
by Kate Etue | Holiday Picks
One of my family’s favorite holiday traditions is the night we tuck our kids in bed, sneak downstairs and make hot chocolate to go, then get them up and load in the car to drive around the city looking at Christmas lights. But the worst is loading up and not...
by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids
I’ve retired our collection of Christmas music for another year, but there’s one song that has been such a favorite wintery tune on my playlist for the past–gulp–25 years, that it will remain on heavy rotation until the first days of spring....
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Holiday Picks
Sometimes I need just a little quiet at home over the holidays, you know? And since my kids are app-crazy anyway, they always think it’s a treat to find cool new Christmas apps for kids that they haven’t tried yet. While we have a few from years past that...
by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids
Good grief! Peanuts, the comic most of us grew up with, is a senior citizen! Charles M. Schultz’s beloved comic strip is 65, having debuted in just nine newspapers back on October 2, 1950. And though no soundtrack would’ve been assigned to a newspaper...
by Christina Refford | Kids
We’ve been spring cleaning our house for a few weeks now, thanks to a little book on the Konmari method of tidying and organization, so when I heard the song called Too Much Junk by Elska, I knew I had my family’s new anthem. Give it a download and I bet...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
If you’re giving a tech gift, here are 7 basic tips to add to your checklist, to make sure kids (and eager adults) can just rip open those packages and start playing. Not that we remember them ourselves all the time. Which is why we’re making a list that...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Gear + Hardware
Has the audiophile in your life been very, very good this year? One more to add to our coolest audio gifts list: a beautiful, compact portable sound system and alarm clock that’s beautiful inside and out, thanks to sustainable wood and high quality stereo...
by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids
We know that many of you are gearing up for Christmas, getting ready to kick back and enjoy the fun that comes after all the work of these past few weeks. Here, a link to a little tune from way back in our own childhoods that your kids will love too. After all:...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Games + Gaming
The stockings are hung, the gifts are (mostly) bought, and now I’ll spend the next few days checking my list–twice–to make sure we’re ready for the big day. Oh, and I’ll be rocking out to this new app that takes my mind off of all I have...