Monthly Archive — November 2010

  • Time to Play: Toys that Help Children Learn to Walk

    From Guest Blogger on November 29th, 2010

    In my earlier post, I mentioned my youngest son struggles with Dyspraxia. He is delayed about a year across the board. He is 2 and a half now and just recently started walking. Some things that helped him were toys! We had used all of the standard walkers, the grocery carts and other toys designed to help kids walk but I found a few of Chewy’s older brother’s toys that ended up helping him the most.

  • Happy Thanks-Gaming

    From Jeff McKinney on November 24th, 2010

    Happy Thanks-Gaming! Check out the list of games I’ll be serving up at my house over the holiday weekend.

  • The Perfection Trap—Staying Real Can Set You Free

    From Christopher Byrne on November 22nd, 2010

    Thanksgiving is bearing down on us this week, with all the other holidays hot on its heels, and the drive to create perfection is weighing heavily on many minds. The search for perfection, and even the belief that it is possible is one of the great myths of our time. It was brought home even more fully this week by an article in the New York Times about altering kids’ school pictures so they could appear perfect.

  • Fast Food Fracas — What You Can Do.

    From Christopher Byrne on November 12th, 2010

    If anyone else is scratching his or her head about the recent San Francisco ordinance to ban toys with fast food meals over 600 calories, they may be banging those same heads against the wall at a recent Yale study that effectively criticizes the line workers at fast food restaurants for adding to childhood obesity.

  • Holiday Toy Shopping Tips

    From Shannon Eis on November 11th, 2010

    I never thought I’d be the one to jolt parents into a shopping frenzy…but after a few years of last-minute shopping blitz experience under my belt, I’ve decided to act on my biggest New Years resolution for 2010. It’s that I won’t put myself through procrastination-induced holiday madness this year…and there’s plenty of room for you on my bandwagon. And so with that, I offer a few tips below to help bring some organization to your festive chaos.

  • Review: Roman Town

    From Jeff McKinney on November 10th, 2010

    This week in my Play Forum post, a review of Roman Town: The Premiere Archaeology Game For Kids!

  • Time to Play: Developing Fine Motor Skills

    From Guest Blogger on November 8th, 2010

    My son is 2 and a half years old and has Dyspraxia (you can read more about dyspraxia and my sons other conditions on my blog). He has issues with his gross & fine motor planning and development. Our occupational therapist and I are always looking at ways we can use the toys we already have in a new way to help him work on a particular skill set.

  • The Election is over…But Your Vote’s Still Needed

    From Jim Silver on November 5th, 2010

    Sure, you may think the political election is over, but what about the most important vote of the year. (At least to us at the moment.)

  • Game Review Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge

    From Jeff McKinney on November 3rd, 2010

    A new mini-review on the Play Forum! this week, I take a look at the CD-ROM game, Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge.

  • Watch Your Mouth

    From Christopher Byrne on November 2nd, 2010

    As I’m writing this, the polls are opening, and I for one won’t miss the robo-calls, the reams of direct mail and most of all the contentious, virtually inescapable ads, arguments and incessant news coverage highlighting the most excessive outbursts from candidates. Whatever the outcome, however, the permanent campaigning will simply go on, but perhaps the tone will be ratcheted back a bit, and that’s going to be a relief.

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