Gas up the wagon and drive to a shady picnic table where the whole family can play Road Trip, a new game from Daddy-O Productions. Packaged in a playful tin box, this is a fun game for kids 7 and up and their parents. You don't have to be on the road to play Road Trip. If fact, this is not a game for the car. However, I brought it along on a family weekend and we enjoyed the … [Read more...] about Review: Road Trip family game
Archives for August 2011
Who is Simon Miller? family movie on Saturday night
"Who is Simon Miller," the newest of the "Family Movie Night" series created by P&G, premieres Saturday night (8/6/11) on NBC at 8/7PM Central. We had a chance to see a screener and watched it the other night as a family. I"ve written several times about this effort. (Full disclosure: P&G invite me on set for the filming of "Change of Plans.") I like P&G's mission, … [Read more...] about Who is Simon Miller? family movie on Saturday night
Kids say the darndest things
We will be away on holiday for a few weeks in August and my 7 year old, a new reader, is constantly asking me if things we see, and reads, on our route to camp will be available where we are next week. Today, he asked, "Will there be Arrowhead water?" followed by "Will there be..." a Hilton hotel, a Jeep Cherokee, and "Harry Potter, The Deathly Hallows, Part II." As we were … [Read more...] about Kids say the darndest things
Review: Baby MedBasics
Baby MedBasicsis a cute little book to stick at the bottom of the diaper bag, "just in case." It covers typical child accidents and illnesses including burns, falls, poisons and fevers. As the book cover proclaims, it's "emergency action steps at your finger tips." It's 62 pages and covers all the major issues pretty well with actual things to do when you discover the baby is … [Read more...] about Review: Baby MedBasics
Another week, another camp…
I just dropped my boy off for his week of Magic Camp at the local Y. He is 7, and not exactly excited to be at the Y for another week. Maybe it's our Y, or maybe this is common to all YMCA camps, but our kids have decided that Y Camp is glorified childcare. The descriptions of the camps look great, but inside, it's a lot of time-filling, or at least that's the way it seems … [Read more...] about Another week, another camp…