Category: Parenting
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New at GeekDad: 10 Geeky Gifts for Under $10
If you’re looking for inexpensive gifts to get me for Christmas (and aren’t you?), look no further than my latest at GeekDad: 10 Geeky Gifts for Under $10: Sure, geeks love expensive gifts. But if you can’t afford a Hadron Collider for your geek this year, let alone a flying alarm clock or netbook, consider…
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Camping Gadgets for the Geekdad
Spring has sprung for most of the country, and here in North Carolina, that means it’s time for camping. Time to pull the tents and backpacks out of the attic, dust them off and air them out. And since Father’s Day is only a month away, it means dropping hints so that you can weigh…
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Disposable Plates and Cups Do Not a Good Parent Make
Gag me with a (disposable) spoon.
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Rare Children’s Books
Children’s literature is big business these days. Just go to any mega-chain bookstore and check out the square footage devoted to the kids. It’s fantastic that there are so many options for young readers, but the popularity of children’s literature is hardly a new phenomenon. The bookn3rd blog, which focuses on book history, has some…
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Resources for Reading Out Loud
My wife just finished listening to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on audiobook. She’s been gushing all month about how fantastic of a reader Mr. Gaiman is–he narrated the book himself–and how he gets all the accents just right. This is something very important to the two of us, as we both love stories read aloud, but…
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Free Range Kids: Giving Kids Freedom to be Kids
Lenore Skenazy, who wrote a controversial piece in last week’s New York Sun about letting her 9-year-old use the NYC subway, has a new blog called Free Range Kids, all about giving kids the same types of freedoms that we all experienced when we were younger: “Do you ever… ..let your kid ride a bike…
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Free They Might Be Giants Podcast For Kids
This is very cool! I just posted it to Geekdad, but it’s worth mentioning here, too. In advance of their new kids’ album, Here Come the 123s, perennial geek music favorite They Might Be Giants have a new weekly podcast for kids. I just got the notice from the latest edition of their email newsletter…
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Baby’s First Mythos
Bring up your geeklets right! With Baby’s First Mythos, written by C.J. Henderson and illustrated by Erica Henderson, you can teach them to rightfully fear the Outer Gods, all while learning their 123s and ABCs! From the review at Geekparenting.com: "Though it isn’t bound in flesh or inked with human blood, Baby’s First Mythos does…