Remember the days when you stayed in to play a board game. Remember when you were a kid and enjoyed Monopoly and Candyland? Today, society is all about technology moving as fast as the internet. However, in the midst of all of this, I found a way to slow down and stay in. The best part is, it only has two words: Mad Gab.

Mad Gab is actually a card game. There is a set of cards and each card has two sides. One side is orange and one side is blue. According to Mad Gab, the orange side is…

Somewhere along the way, progress started to interfere with our children’s ability to entertain themselves.  Somewhere between the advent of the hand-held video game and the introduction of 200 channels of on-demand programming, kids have lost the knack for playing with plain, old fashioned toys.

Don’t get me wrong.  It’s great that my children have options I never dreamed of when it comes to their entertainment options.  The Nintendo DS is a tremendous blessing on long car rides and in waiting rooms.  But I feel like the boys are missing out on a wonderful world of imagination if they’re continually…

Summertime, when the kids are home from school, can be a real challenge for parents. If you are fortunate enough to have a stay at home parent in your family, then you have probably skimped and sacrificed to make that possible. And the way things are right now, not many of us have a lot of extra money to spend on entertaining the kiddies (or anything else) right now. But keeping the kids cooped up in the house won’t last more than a week with most families.

Fortunately, there are some great low-cost and even free avenues…

This is going to be an unusual product review for several reasons. First, we’re not going to be discussing one particular product. Second, you are probably very familiar with the several products to be discussed already. But stay with me because sometimes we all need to be reminded of what we already know.

Your child will probably never ask you for Sorry or Trouble.    Monopoly may never make it to the top of their Christmas list.  Not when there are Pokemon, Bakugan, and Silly Bands to be had.  But you should get it for them anyway.  There is something about family…

I just got back from the 8th grade  field trip to Washington, D.C.  Long distance, over-night field trips are a blast!  Unfortunately, they can be tricky, so I am going to post some tips and tricks on the trips.

• Pack well: Getting there and finding out you lack an important item stinks, to be blunt.  Make sure you pack everything you need, but not too much either.  Only pack what you need and a little extra, not everything you own.
• Bring a good amount of spending money.  Pack more than enough, because running out can put you in  trouble.  Some kids…