Just came across

this fascinating bit of info from NewScientist -
…Social networking sites are already pretty popular. So how do you improve on the internet’s hottest web offerings? The answer could be to make them three-dimensional.
Start-up company Vivaty of Menlo Park, California, is creating a hybrid of conventional social networking sites such as Facebook and […]

In 2 days

it’s April Fools Day! Wheee!
Have you prepared your April Fools joke for your kids?
If not, allow me to suggest The Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of all Time. To wit:
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
#2: Sidd Finch
#3: Instant Color TV
#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
#5: San Serriffe
#6: Nixon for President
#7: Alabama […]

Morning,

If there’s one thing beneficial about being an online marketing entrepreneur, it’s being able to teach my kids how to ’spot the pitch!’ in everyday teen marketing.
The article Brand hungry teens benefit from value lessons caught my attention today. To wit:
…You don’t need to buy a copy of Teen Vogue or turn […]

Morning,

One of the challenges parents have regarding their kids is keeping them safe online. The challenge into which we all run is that generally, kids are, well, more naive than Bambi meeting an AK-47-carrying karate master. “It will never happen to me!” they decree, and off they go onto MySpace, happily chatting […]

Morning,

Now THIS is a holiday that should have been created back during Stonehenge:
National Chore Free Day for Moms
On this day, moms are relieved of their chore duties. Instead, their children happily and proudly shoulder all the responsibilities of mom-duty such as:

Digging out single socks under couches
Making school lunches
Sandblasting the kitchen floor
Completing the […]

Morning!
If you’re like me

and have kids for whom “Easter” means “megaChocolateOverload”, you probably got up at 3am to artfully scatter thousands of wayward calories about the house (after which you probably retreated back to your warm cozy bed and hoped to snatch at least 13 more minutes of dreamy luxurious sleep before giving that […]