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• 5 reasons it's a good thing I had boys

  I was going to say, "I'm glad I have boys" but that didn't sound quite right. That is, I would love girl-children just as much as I love my guys. But there are a few ways that having boys has made my life – mine, specifically – a little bit easier. Read More... Posted Aug 17 2008, 01:05 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, children, kids, television, Movies, games, video games, tv, music, mom, toys, Xbox, fathers, mothers, cartoons, girls, boys, film, transformers, hannah montana, Batman, Pink, Wii, dad, miley cyrus, billy ray cyrus, Nintendo DS, pokemon, lists, spiderman, playstation 2, xbox 360, ps2, Brett Singer, hulk, jonas brothers, playstation, ds, videogames, my little pony, the dark knight, boys will be boys, 5 things, girl stuff, trucks, psp, girl toys, boy stuff, 5 reasons, boy toys, putty in my hands

• They Say: Limit Kids Screen Time

  What's great about "advice" is that, in trying to be many things to many people, it often comes out sounding unintentionally dopey. From About.com's singleparents site (I guess kids in two-parent families can watch as much TV as they want to?) comes these tidbits: Read More... Posted Jun 10 2008, 10:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, television, entertainment, video games, tv, Xbox, Nintendo, Wii, advice, computer, ps2, Brett Singer, they say, psone, playstation, couch potato, gameboy, ps3, screens, screen gazing, videogame, bedroom, ps1, ds

• Game Designer to Teachers: Don't Knock It Til You Try It

  Clint Hocking is the Creative Director of Ubisoft Montreal, a video game developer and publisher. His credits include Splinter Cell, a Tom Clancy-inspired adventure game. On his blog, he has a suggestion for the Canadian Teacher's Federation (CTF): before you tell someone not to play a game, why not play it yourself first? Hocking was responding to the CTF issuing a press release... Read More... Posted Mar 16 2008, 10:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: gaming, education, video games, bullying, bully, teachers, bullies, Wii, playstation 2, xbox 360, ps2