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Are children’s book authors’ lives as squeaky clean as the tales they crank out to bookstores? The other day, I misplaced my better nature and took to the Internet for some research. As it turns out, even the authors of some of the most endearing and cherished children’s classics kept some sordid secrets that didn’t make it on the bio page.
Aesop
The granddaddy of kid’s lit, Aesop’s Fables (like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “The Ant and the Grasshopper”), ensured him adoration for hundreds of generations. Too bad everyone back in the 6th century B.C. hated his guts.
Did you happen to catch the rating on that video game your kid got for Christmas? What about the movie they caught with their friends over the holiday break? You’re not alone.
According to a new survey of parents, most of us are ignoring the ratings on video games, movies and music in favor of letting our kids go hog wild. Continue reading »
Chanukah begins tonight (or began tonight, depending on what time you are reading this) and we couldn’t let it go without giving you a little something.
So here you go!
Here is Chanucore, from the great Jewish punk band Electric Menorah. It’s even safe for kids, although it is a little sloppy and loud. Then again, so are some kids. So it probably works. Continue reading »
Oh sure, it’s cute when little kids act out their favorite music videos or even try to sing along. It’s all fun and games until someone actually knows how to play a ukulele. And then it’s just kind of amazing.
(Adorable video after the jump.)
When they were about 4 and 2, my daughters got hooked on a Little People CD they’d picked up at a garage sale. We picked my husband up at work one day, and when he opened the door, that shrill, chipper, happy music came pouring out.
“It’s like a circus threw up in here,” he complained.
Traditional children’s music can only be tolerated so long, so it’s kind of cute when your kids starts to pick up on your musical taste, singing along to your favorite songs.
Even if your favorite songs happen to be grindcore. Watch this baby sing along to his dad’s favorite death metal song:
Kids are noisy. They babble and squeal. They bang things and drop other things and hit each other with everything. And they seem naturally drawn to the loudest toys.
On a bad day, this can cause a headache. But most of the time, that cacophony of sounds is simply the soundtrack of our lives. Take this little family of musicians, for instance:
After all the fuss people made over Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards, we should remember that he has been compared to the dearly departed lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury. Freddie Mercury was a lot better. Also great — The Muppets. And while I think Muppets Studio did not follow that bizarre logic when they decided to make a video of The Muppets performing the classic Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody,” it doesn’t matter. What is important is that they did, in fact, make a video of The Muppets performing “Bohemian Rhapsody.” And it is good. Continue reading »
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