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Today as the kids were getting ready for school my daughter asked Alexa (It’s an Amazon Echo if you don’t know who Alexa is…and it’s awesome if you don’t have one) to play a Justin Bieber song. Alexa replied that there was no Justin Bieber in our library. After hearing Alexa’s response, my 7 year…
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I decided I should start a series of blog posts I call Proud of Scared. In this series of posts (which I’ll do as incidents occur) I’ll highlight those times as a parent when you’re torn between being proud of your child or scared. In these situations you’re proud of their smarts, intelligence, creativity, or…
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I’ve started getting some somewhat odd messages from the Crash Wife lately. Although, the oddity eventually gets explained when I get a message from the Crash Wife saying “That was Crash Kid #2 texting you.” It’s amazing when an 8 year old discovers their mom’s cell phone and what it can really do. Our kids…
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While we were in NY visiting the in-laws, we were able to go to some children’s museum in Rochester (I think it’s called the Strong Museum of Play or something). It’s a really cool place with a lot of fun things for the kids (and parents) to do. We all really enjoyed ourselves. One of…
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I’m not exactly sure what Google has in store, but they’ve released a Santa Tracker app. As I understand it, each day Google will release a new module which will use games and videos to teach kids some basic programming skills. Of course, from a kids perspective they’re just playing games and tracking Santa. I’m…
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The other day I was hanging out with my 2 year old Crash Kid. While I was sitting there with him, he looked up at the TV to realize that Curious George had been paused. Turns out we were streaming Curious George from Netflix through our Google Chromecast(Side Note: I love the Chromecast!) on to…