The Obama Family at a Miley Cyrus Concert

Michelle Obama took her daughters to a Miley Cyrus concert at the Verizon Center last night, putting both election results and weekday bedtimes second to Sasha and Malia’s desire to “Party in the U.S.A.” with their peers. Continue reading »

INTERVIEW: Imagination Movers Solve Our Problems

If anyone can knock the Wiggles off your tot’s TV rotation, it’s the Imagination Movers - four dads from New Orleans who solve idea emergencies on the Disney Channel.

The show grabbed a Daytime Emmy out of the starting gate for outstanding original song in the children’s show/animation category - and now the Movers are going back on the road for a forty-city concert tour.

We grabbed Imagination Mover Scott Durbin, father of two and former award-winning teacher in the Movers’ hometown of New Orleans, to talk about rocking out, raising kids who’ve been through Katrina and why standards-based education doesn’t work for America’s kids: Continue reading »

Going to a Rock Show? Leave the Kids Home

It wasn’t Dave Matthews cursing that bugged me. It wasn’t even the three-and-a-half-year-old in the next row listening to Dave Matthews curse that bugged me.

It was listening to said three-and-a-half-year-old’s mom tell the woman beside me “oh yeah, and I have a one-year-old at home!” So you had a babysitter and you chose to drag your toddler to a late night rock show? Are you kidding me? Continue reading »

How to Help 8-Year-Old AC/DC Fan

The video’s of a kid with a guitar singing “Back in Black,” how can you not want him to win his first visit to an AC/DC concert?

According to the Toronto Star, the majority of folks voting on the AC/DC Ultimate Fan Experience were behind 8-year-old “biggest fan” Josh until sponsors Bell/MSN Sympatico somehow lost all the votes. And all of a sudden the kid who’d been leading his two adult competitors was way behind in the count. Continue reading »