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Star Wars in 3D gives everyone a chance to see it on the big screen
My seven-year-old can tell you whose lightsaber is purple (Mace Windu) and what sound a Droideka makes (em! em!), but he's never been able to sit in a movie theater and see one of his beloved Star Wars movies on the big screen. Until now.
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It's time to raise the curtain...
Last month, cool-tee-site Threadless held a Muppet design contest to jump on the excitement many of us feel about the new Mupplets movie coming out this fall. (New Muppets! Whee!)
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Cool Mom Picks wishes you a Happy Birthday. Yes, you.
Considering my oldest daughter just turned seven (7!) last week, I've spent the better half of the last few days singing Happy Birthday. So it seemed only fitting that I'd have barely any voice left when I filmed myself doing... ... [More]
Teaching kids to read just gets more and more fun.
When my kids were younger, I used to leave the Closed Captioning up on the television so they could get familiar with the words coming out of the mouths of their favorite cartoon characters. Taking this idea one step further and more effectively, in my opinion, are the Readeez series of DVDs and downloads.
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Web Coolness - Fourth of July treats, dad-made feats and hitting the books (instead of cleats)
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
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Pete the Cat is the new Goodnight Moon
I can't get enough of Pete the Cat. My kids are enamored. Their classmates are all entranced by the magical feline.
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Web Coolness - floating pools, homemade rocketship, and finding balance between work and home
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
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Cars 2 Review - The next Disney classic
If there's any movie that my kids have been counting down the days to see, it's definitely Cars 2, the long awaited sequel to the uber popular Cars movie that was first released when I only had one kid. Well, wait no more. The sequel is here, in 3D no less, and it's definitely worth the wait.
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The Kids Grow Up... way too fast
As my oldest daughter fast approaches her 7th birthday, I have become more acutely aware of how fleeting childhood really is. And the urgency to bask in her little-ness is now even more present after seeing a fascinating new must-see HBO documentary.
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Samuel L. Jackson reads the "Go the F*** to Sleep" book
After reading the encyclopedia of bedtime stories, singing four rounds of Twinkle Twinkle, and then providing my kids with snuggles, kisses, and several glasses of water, I go from sweetly shushing to sleep to bribing and begging them through gritted teeth and eyes rolled back in my head that silently say "Go to sleep already!" Except usually with a few expletives involved.
Apparently I'm not the only one.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins is back, Jim Carrey-fied, and totally fun.
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