Monthly Archives: February 2009

Strawberry Shortcace review

The last few years has seen a wave of beloved cartoon characters (and marketing inventions) of decades past making a reemergence into the crowded children’s marketplace. The reasoning is pretty straight-forward: if one generation liked them, maybe the next will too, and hopefully parental nostalgia will be enough to get those first purchases [...]

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Dreambox Review – learning math from Dinasours and Pirates

I home-school my daughters and I am always looking for different things to add to the curriculum we use. Really, I love it when they get excited about anything that has to do with learning. I’ve bought them plenty of computer games that “make learning fun,” but I sometimes wonder how much actual learning [...]

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Dalai Lama on Twitter – a worthy endeavor

From the Dalai Lama’s office:
“Welcome to the official Twitter page of His Holiness the Dalai Lama – administered by The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
“His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his office open and assessable to a more youth and technologically advancing audience”.

The Dalai Lama is now on Twitter!! He was [...]

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