Mother’s Day Improv With the Mother of ‘The Rugrats!’

April 10, 2009 Feel like you’re interacting with your family via text message? Facing screens more than each other? Using drive time as quality time and packing parental fun into cellular size? Kids and parents, come see yourselves and each other in a whole new way! One month from today on Mother's Day, Actress Melanie Chartoff, screen voice for The Rugrats mom, Didi Pickles … [Read more...]

Daily Good: Media That Can Fuel Kids’ Souls: Bella & Tarra

Many of us have seen the classic Stuart Brown National Institute of Play viral video of the polar bear and sled dogs making the rounds many times over as the quintessential ‘odd couple’ that turns the predator/prey instinct on its ear… It’s worth using as a childhood ‘teaching moment’ about stereotypes, unexpected outcomes, friendship, … [Read more...]