Sep 30, 2015
Maker Faires are springing up all over, in
a city or a Barnes & Noble
near you, and we asked Kathy Ceceri, author of
Making Simple Robots and the upcoming
Paper Inventions, about what these events are all about
and how you can bring some cool DIY tech into your child's life.
It's okay -- you don't have to have a 3D...
Sep 29, 2015
Football pre-empting ABC's schedule foiled Catherine's efforts to watch Dancing With the Stars this week, and if you had to pick an episode to be pre-empted in your viewing area, this would be the one. Terri gave a recap of the TV-themed episode -- which labored under the need to 1) pick only TV theme songs they could...
Sep 25, 2015
Our group chat started off on a positive note as
we shared those clever tricks we've developed over the years
to solve various organizational and parenting problems. We gave
ourselves pats on the back for finding new uses for pizza boxes and
Book Sox, and even for remembering to put gas in the car. It's all
good.
Things...
Sep 24, 2015
For this week's Round 4, Amanda
chatted with her husband, Jon, our audio engineer and blogger
at My Happy SAHD Life,
to talk about the ... educational challenge of taking children with
special needs out in public. Do you enlighten that judgey lady on
the plane about the tic disorder that's making your kid kick her
seat?...
Sep 23, 2015
Susan Adcox, who writes about grandparenting for About.com,
joins us on the third Wednesday of every month to chat with
Catherine about grandparenting issues. This time, they talk about
family closeness: what grandparents and parents can do to
keep extended families close, what
factors affect family closeness, and...