Kids love TV. It’s nothing new. Since the birth of the small screen more than 60 years ago, they have become one of the biggest influences on the world, and in particular on how kids are brought up. In the early stages of the 20th century when television did not exist, kids used to entertain [...]
Spanking kids is a very controversial issue, and one that is very hard to cover without creating debate of some sort. It is for this reason alone I will make this post very brief and only surface level.
When I was younger my parents used to tell me about a game they loved when they were kids. The game was called Murder in the Dark and it involved a bunch of kids in a house with no light, trying to find, and eliminate each other.
The Ants go Marching is a great classic kids sing-a-long written to the tune of the 1800s military song “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”. The tune is very repetitive and catchy
Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s picture story, Where the Wild Things Are, has finally been adaptated onto the big screen in a much anticipated cinema release.
Traditionally, The Cat Came Back is one of the longer children’s songs playing today. Written by Harry S. Miller in 1893, the comic song is about an owner who could just NOT get rid of his unwanted pet cat.
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic French novel about a man who, as the title suggests, attempts to circumnavigate the world in 80 days. Written in 1873, the novel has had world wide success, with the story being adaptated into a theatre play, TV series, feature film, animations and numerous exhibitions.
Club Penguin and their many video game heroes, have become a huge success on the kids scene since they were first seen in 2005. Now, children in Australia finally have the opportunity to take their favourite Club Penguin character out of the video game screen and into their own hands
Boden is a clothing company that was first established in 1991 by Johnnie Boden. Currently Boden has released its latest range of kids and toddler clothing for the second half of 2009.
What many don’t know about the classic nursery rhyme, Baa Baa Black Sheep, is that it is sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman. Not only is it a tune from a famous French song, but its tune is also used in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet [...]