Because sometimes being a parent means doing what’s hard.
Posted in family life, holidays, kids' TV, parenting controversies, TV parents on Dec 21st, 2011
Just this morning, I was reading an excellent op-ed in Newsday, the Long Island, New York newspaper. A writer friend of mine, Claudia Copquin, wrote about Rudolph. I’ll put the link here for those of you who may be Newsday subscribers or Optimum Online customers (which you have to be, dang it, to get access), [...]
Posted in family life, kids' TV, Mean Mom's Question Time on May 4th, 2010
Starting this week (and hopefully continuing because it turns out to be wildly successful!), I’m instituting Mean Mom’s Question Time. Because I got to thinking: I can write (and write, and write, and write), but I’d rather discuss sometimes. So. Here’s the topic for Week One of Mean Mom’s Question Time: How much TV do [...]
Posted in family life, humor, kids' TV, toys on Oct 1st, 2009
The latest I hear about the basic-cable TV channel Noggin (“It’s like preschool on TV!”) is that it’s now called Nick, Jr. Can commercials be far behind? My husband and I (well, my husband, actually) stumbled upon Noggin while flipping through the many upper (as in, above 100) channels we have in our cable system. [...]
