Monthly Archive — October 2009

  • Featured this week on Time to Play with Jim and Chris

    From on October 30th, 2009

    Missed the show? Want some more info on one of the featured toys? You came to the right place! We featured Boys Toys and Preschool toys on the show this week: Boys Toys Transformers Ben 10 Star Wars Astro Boy UFC WWE Bakugan Battle Strikers Toy story Preschool Toys: Mickey Choo Choo Elmo tickle Hands [...]

  • Superhero Mythology

    From on October 29th, 2009

    I always think about Super Heroes around Halloween because they tend to be the most popular costumes for boys. When I think of Super Heroes, I think of Batman, X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, Power Rangers, and Superman off the top of my head.

  • No Nobel for Baby? Who’s To Blame & What Can You Do?

    From on October 28th, 2009

    Earlier this week, a major piece in the New York Times announced refund to parents who had purchased its Baby Einstein videos because they aren’t “educational.”

  • Game Deals From Best Buy and Amazon

    From on October 28th, 2009

    Attention video game shoppers! Amazon.com and Best Buy want to give you free games! Get all the details in my weekly blog post but hurry, deals end on Saturday.

  • Balloon Boy, Trick-Or-Treat & The Evaporation of Reason

    From on October 22nd, 2009

    Halloween is just over two weeks away, and already I’m hearing from parents who are afraid to let their children trick-or-treat. They are convinced, absolutely convinced, that their kids are going to get poisoned from candy or find a razor blade in their apples.

  • Abbey Road DLC Available! What The Heck is DLC?

    From on October 21st, 2009

    This week The Beatles’ 1969 album, Abbey Road, becomes available as DLC for the game The Beatles: Rock Band. Awesome right?! But what exactly does “DLC” mean and where do I get it? Don’t worry, I’ve got all the answers for you.

  • Time To Play: Developing a Reader

    From on October 19th, 2009

    I’m in the midst of the Great Bedroom Declutter of 2009. Pray for me. With a kid, a preteen, and a teen, you can imagine how much stuff we have crammed in to our house. My children save everything from Halloween candy to Valentine’s cards to craft kits to notepads to sheets of stickers to clothes that don’t fit to well, name something and I can probably find it in one of their rooms. Add to the mess my old notebooks from school and college, my childhood stamp album, a collection of t-shirts destined to become a quilt, and a host of other items small and large — and you can imagine the clutter. Even my husband has been known to hang on to a few things. As you can see my children get their packrat tendencies naturally.

  • Toy Story 3 Trailer

    From on October 16th, 2009

    Toy Story 3 will be in theaters June 18, 2010

  • Game Preview: LEGO Rock Band

    From on October 15th, 2009

    This week, I take an early look at LEGO Rock Band, the next Rock Band game and the first created specifically for families and kids.

  • What to do if the hot toy is unavailable?

    From on October 14th, 2009

    When a child makes out their holiday wish list, there are often one or two toys at the top that are the ones they “gotta get”. Often a parent hopes to wait for this item to go on sale, unaware that it’s hot, and then gets shocked when it’s unavailable anywhere. What’s a parent to do? Years ago, a friend of mine went into a store and asked for the Furby aisle and was laughed at thinking she’d just walk down the aisle and pick one out. Don’t let this be you!

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