I finally got to the point where I told my kids they can watch pretty much anything (within reason of course) as long as it has a plot. They have to be watching some sort of story. The mindless youtube personality talking about games or opening up toys just seems to rob them of any sort of need to think. At least a TV…

I found my 8 year old watching videos about grown people going to the bathroom because he searched for “potty humor” and that lead him into a very weird place. The boy wanted to watch some fart jokes and found some strange fetish stuff instead. The internet is a scary place.
With that said, we didn’t know he was…

Blue Valkyrie is about to die.

Sounds like my life. Then out of quarters (or tokens depending on how old I was) I would go around pushing in all of the “return” buttons on the games and feeling in all of the coin return slots hoping for a spare token. I think if I were to still find an arcade I would stick tokens in the slot just for kids like me.

I love reading on Kindle. I get angry when school books aren’t digital. But with that said, I read my kids “I am the Cheese” a few months ago and as I held that book I realized that it was the same book that my mother had read to me when I was a kid. Not just the same story, but the same copy of the book. The physical…

Photos of kids really may be the one exception to this. Facebook is the official family photo share platform now. So pictures of kids is a way to keep distant relatives in the loop. It may be best to set up groups on Facebook and only share things to those groups, but with kid photos there is always an aunt or uncle…

What I like about the “no haggle” price isn’t that I get the best deal, but that I know that the next guy doesn’t get a better deal. It isn’t that I don’t want to haggle for prices, I just don’t want to feel like if I had argued a little more I would have gotten a better deal. For me it is the feeling that I am…

Just this week I thought, “Hey, I need to rearrange all of my apps into a system that works better”. I started dragging stuff around on the screen, but that was clunky so I plugged my phone into the computer so that I could use a mouse and drag apps where I wanted them.
I couldn’t figure out where the feature to…

I was reading comments for like 5 minutes and kept thinking, “No one is going to say anything about her name?!?”

But if you have spent all day with said, “normal humans” even if they are adults sometime there isn’t much left to talk about. So these games and activities open up possibilities for conversation that is new and fresh.

The problem isn’t that we have a cartoon villain as a president. The problem is that our country is supposed to operate with a series of checks and balances where congress makes laws not the president. Since DACA was a presidential fiat, and not a voted on by congress law it can be easily changed. The solution is to…

My sister just bought/built a house in Nashville. Every room (except the bathrooms) has an ethernet port.

The skylanders work in games that come after them, but not all of them work in games that come before them. They normally have a chart type thing on the back to indicate which game you can use them on.