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• Your Girls Can Be "Bimbos" Online!

  Sometimes you see stuff and think, "Is this fer real?" When I read about the Miss Bimbo game, I kept thinking, "Oh, in a minute they'll say the game is for adults." But no, in fact the majority of the 200,000 players are between the ages of 7 and 17. But let me back up: There's a virtual "fashion" game for girls where they get a "Bimbo" and have to navigate her through boob jobs and diets and so on to make her the coolest bimbo of all. Girls can dress their dolls in sexy outfits for clubbing, and are encouraged to keep them waif thin through diet pills and plastic surgery. Niiiice. Most of the accounts I read focused on the weight and cosmetic horrors of the game, but I personally was more disturbed by the fact that... Read More... Posted Mar 25 2008, 07:02 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: health, teens, internet, girls, diet, daughters, online, self-esteem, plastic surgery, eating disorders, weight, sexism, virtual reality, body image, boob job, dolls, computer games, misogyny, sugar daddy, self image

• My New Geek Obsession Helps Teach My Kids Too

  I'm probably one of the last to get on board with this sort of thing, but I've become a bit obsessed with the Travelpod Traveler IQ Challenge app on Facebook. You know the thing I'm talking about? It's the thing where you can amaze  astound  challenge  bore your friends with your knowledge of geography and your skill with clicking (oh woe to you if you're working with the mouse of a Macbook, which under my sausage-like protrusions is less than accurate at times). But even better, I've hooked my older son on this, and he routinely challenges me (sucker). And he seems to be learning stuff too.   Read More... Posted Jan 19 2008, 10:45 AM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: kids, Facebook, geography, computer games, Travelpod

• Computer Games Help You Bond With Your Kids

  In a stunning new study commissioned by computer games developer Popcap Games, a whopping 92% of parents and grandparents who play computer games think the games are a good way to bond with kids. Huh. How impartial. And seriously, how many grandparents are that into Zuma*? (Bejeweled** I get, it's so hypnotic, and Bookworm***, better than Scrabble, but Zuma?) Read More... Posted Aug 30 2007, 09:36 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: kids, stupid studies, familiy activities, computer games, Popcap Games