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If you’re looking to keep the kids occupied in one room for the adults six hundredth watching of Clark W. Griswold’s holiday antics, there’s a monkey who will keep them so transfixed you can’t wrench them away.
Curious George has been given his own Christmas flick, and it’s a holiday hit for the kids. Continue reading »
It seems that the recent refund offer by Disney was the spark that reignited the flame of a decades-old controversy: Is television harmful to tots? Are we a society of lazy, selfish parents that use the screen as a live-in babysitter? And if so, are we creating a society of mush-brained mutants that call the remote “Daddy”?
Julia Pimsleur Levine, mother of 2 and creator of Little Pim, an educational foreign-language DVD series for the toddler set, has weighed in with the following letter:
The books in many kid’s rooms seem to be losing the battle for shelf space with kid’s DVDS.
In a survey in England, a third of parents admitted the flicks outnumber the books for their kids. What do you want to bet the numbers aren’t that far off on this side of the pond? Continue reading »
Rankin-Bass has made some of the greatest Christmas specials of all time. One of my personal favorites is “The Year Without a Santa Claus“, which features Heat Miser and Snow Miser. (They’re stepbrothers. Of course.)
What I didn’t realize is that they made a sequel in 2008 –”A Miser Brothers’ Christmas.” It is now available on DVD. Continue reading »
I should have been born in Britain. Because even a fairly derivative Wallace and Gromit flick is going to leave me giggling on the couch.
Enter Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death. The new short film is the first from favorite clay-mated dog and dimwit combination since their feature-length Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
It’s no wonder it’s had die hard fans salivating. Enter the good news . . . and the bad news. Continue reading »
Today on Babble:
“Dream It/Do It: Education and Culture”
By Tracy Chait.
Six ways to expand your child’s horizons, on two very different budgets.
Read it here.
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Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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