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FATHERDAD’S FAST REVIEWS: GNOMES AND KIDZ MUSIC

I’ve been thinking about reviews lately. I like doing reviews. Part of the reason is that I do them with Dev’s input so it gives us a chance to hang out and talk about random products and cool movies. It also gives s a chance for us to work on his critical thinking skills because [...]

HALLOWEEN STILL ROCKS

With the Christmas holiday season starting earlier and earlier each year it’s getting increasingly challenging to get into Halloween spirit. The other day I went to my favorite local variety store to grab some Halloween creepiness for the house and what I found was quite amusing. My decorations section was filled with the joy of [...]

DIGGIN’ IN THE CRATES

Lately Dev has taken a fancy (forgive my use of “fancy” – I’ve been reading Treasure Island and their vocab is seeping into my life) to certain Hip Hop stars, namely Drake and Usher. As he gets older we’ve started to somewhat relax our music bans and guide him in his tastes. We still don’t [...]

DOES BORED = SPOILED?

My wife has this theory that Dev is spoiled because for the last week he has been noting that he is bored and only kids who have lots of fun all of the time would notice the few moments when they are bored. I must admit that he has said spoiled kid nonsense like “We [...]