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Parents’ Choice Welcomes the Association of Children’s Museums
Woo hoo! We couldn’t be more pleased to announce our new partnership with the Association of Children’s Museums. Begun in 1962, the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) is a professional member...
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Sara Farber Writes What Toys Say
Sara Farber, toy superhero, at work Sara Farber “loves writing puns for four-year-olds.” Farber is a toy writer and content developer, meaning that she is responsible for the jokes, songs, and chatter...
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Bringing Children’s Apps to Life
Toca Boca fan Victor made his son a train to play in while using the Toca Train app. Toca Boca, Parents’ Choice Award winning app developers, recently posted the above picture on their Facebook page....
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Arrrrrrr! It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day
peasap via Compfight Blimey! Ahoy, mateys! Today Parents’ Choice is celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day, meaning our conversations have been filled with plenty of sea-worthy speak and...
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I Play Therefore I Am: Celebrate Worldwide Day of Play at Your Local...
play ground by jonny2love, on Flickr Thousands of communities across the United States and around the world are celebrating the fun of play on Worldwide Day of Play (WWDoP) on Saturday, October 6....
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To Encourage Girl Engineers, GoldieBlox Began By Watching How Girls Play
Playing with GoldieBlox Little more than a week after its launch, the KickStarter for the building toy GoldieBlox has shattered its $150,000 fundraising goal. Why all of the excitement? As the...
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Stuck Inside? Entertaining Your Family During Hurricane Sandy
Todd Baker via Compfight Stuck inside with your kids during Hurricane Sandy? If you still have not found enough crafts and recipes to keep you entertained on Pinterest, then Parents’ Choice has plenty...
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Accessible Shakespeare
Image courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library. To read or not to read Shakespeare to your kids. That is the question. Of course you want your kids to learn the classics, but how do you introduce them to...
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“RAK-ed” During the Holidays
Los Alamos National Laboratory via Compfight It’s always a challenge to keep materialism and money smarts in check during the holiday season. Nearly everything we see in the media at this time of year...
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Time Shift Your TV – Kids, Physical Fitness and ‘Losers’
Edson Hong via Compfight Cooking shows on television are plentiful, but fitness shows? Nearly non-existent. In 2009, the Discovery Health channel was taken over by Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. Discovery then...
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Shakespeare Uncovered
How would you like David Tennant and Jude Law to help you with your Shakespeare homework?Credit: Courtesy of Alex Brenner My daughter and schoolmates have recently been assigned to act out a shortened...
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Top 10 Things to Do With Your Kids
Read enough articles on parenting could send even the most organized of us into a spiral of self-doubt. The list of do’s and dont’s seems endless. Funny thing about these articles—they’re all from the...
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Message of Love
It doesn’t get any sweeter than Valentine’s Day–and I’m not talking about chocolates and candy. The real treats on Valentine’s Day are the messages of love and friendship crammed into crepe...
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The Three Sisters
Glass Gem Corn from Native Seeds/Search We all crave companionship–people, pets and as it turns out, even plants. As you prepare your gardens this summer, be sure to give your plants the proper...
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Announcing the Spring 2013 Parents’ Choice Toy Award Winners!
We are excited to announce our Spring 2013 Parents’ Choice Toy Award winners! Find games, puzzles, and toys that have all been carefully reviewed by our parent and expert testers. Not sure where to...
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Party on..Safely
As graduation season approaches, plans for the ultimate celebrations are underway. But in front of many high schools are the glaring reminders of taking graduation celebrations too far—the twisted...
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The Parent Trap
I’ll admit it. I am/was a nervous mother. I anticipate the fall of a wobbly child and subsequent boo-boo and it makes me wince. Like many, my husband and I did a basic, de-hazarding of the house when...
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Epic Fail
Photo credit: PinterestFail.com As the old adage goes, even the best laid plans oft go astray. In our house, that seems more like a hard-fast rule. I blame technology. Well, actually, I blame the great...
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Don’t Be That Parent
Read more about the #everyfield posters The meltdowns. The tantrums. The stress-induced bad behaviors. What is a kid to do when their parent can’t behave themselves at youth sporting events? It’s a sad...
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Crayola ColorCycle Transforms Dry Markers into Clean Energy
It’s arts and crafts time on the first day of kindergarten, and you reach for a blue marker to finish a drawing of your backyard that you hope your mom or dad will hang on the refrigerator when you go...
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