It’s my birthday week and we have a bunch of gifts lined up for you… sharing is caring, right? When friends and family ask me what I want for my birthday, I tell them the same thing as I have over the past few years – let’s do something together. Or… offer to babysit the kids :). […]
I’ll be the first to tell you that my kids watch way too much TV according to what is deemed “the norm”. With Little Monkey we plopped her in front of screens from a very early age ( started with Skyping sessions with grandparents) and by the time she was 9 months, she was gladly swiping away. […]
For her second Christmas, my brother decided that Little Monkey was old enough for her very first LEGO set and since then we’ve had LEGOs come through our door in every shape and form. We’ve been through phases where she’ll play with them for hours and then forget about them for months at a time. At […]
Note: This is the ninth entry in a series of posts looking at the Kid Friendliness, Entertainment Value, and Life Lessons for Kids from the Disney Princess movies. Previous posts covered “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, “Pocahontas”, and “Mulan” A couple months ago, we asked the Little Monkey what […]
Note: This is the eighth entry in a series of posts looking at the Kid Friendliness, Entertainment Value, and Life Lessons for Kids from the Disney Princess movies. Previous posts covered “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, and “Pocahontas” A few weeks ago, The Little Monkey surprised me […]
Note: This is the sixth entry in a series of posts looking at the Kid Friendliness, Entertainment Value, and Life Lessons for Kids from the Disney Princess movies. Previous posts covered “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Little Mermaid”, and “Beauty and the Beast”. I had not known Yashy for very long before […]
With “Inside Out”, Pixar continues to help adults remember the joyful extremes of being a kid. The studio has always been able to effectively tap into the imaginations of kids. Starting with the talking toys of “Toy Story”, Pixar has brought countless landscapes to life over the years that seem lifted from the inner minds […]
Note: This is the fifth entry in a series of posts looking at the Kid Friendliness, Entertainment Value, and Life Lessons for Kids from the Disney Princess movies. Previous posts covered “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and “The Little Mermaid” The Little Monkey likes to play favorites. Starting with her decision that […]
Discovering great movies is one of the activities Yashy and I most look forward to sharing with our kids as they grow older. As someone who will never forget the first time I saw E.T. and Elliot cross the Moon, I know that a lifetime of great movie moments await The Little Monkey and her […]
As the first month of 2015 winds down I was reflecting on how January flew by only to realize that we had spent most of this month getting into a rhythm. I’m back at work, the kids are getting comfortable with the nanny and we stayed closed to home without travelling this month. January was […]
