iPhones (and iPads!) + Kids

Have you ever handed your iPhone over to your child? Perhaps you were at a restaurant waiting for your meal to arrive and your eight-year-old daughter wanted ONE MORE turn at Doodle Jump. Or maybe you were sitting in the dentist’s waiting room before an appointment and your ten-year-old son NEEDED to play Hangman. Or maybe your two-year-old child was happy to sit in the stroller and fingerpaint with Doodle...

Friday Finds: Top 100 Children’s Novels

I’ve always loved school librarians. How much? When I was in eighth grade, I chose “library helper” over art class as my elective so I could spend more time in the school library with the librarian. (Okay, I also loved having first dibs on the new book arrivals while they were still in pristine condition before anyone else got their grimy hands on them.) Therefore it should come as no big surprise...