Many, many years ago (longer ago than I’m willing to admit) I was born on the kitchen table of a farmhouse in rural England. My parents lived at the time out in the countryside in a rambling, crumbling house with an enormous, toasty warm kitchen. My birth (which came as a surprise to my mother, […]

In recent days we’ve been writing a fair bit about the series of educational DVDs from LeapFrog – you can go back and check out our reviews of the LeapFrog Letter Factory and LeapFrog Math Circus from earlier in the week. After we wrote the reviews we had a little feedback from parents and fans […]

A little while ago we wrote a glowing review for the Leap Frog Letter Factory DVD, an animated movie that guides the characters through the alphabet and helps your little ones learn the sounds of every letter. While we were browsing through customer reviews to find what hundreds of loving parents thought of the DVD […]

For many years now the United Kingdom has been seen as something of a 51st state of the US. I don’t say that in a disrespectful way, for course – I was born and raised in the UK – but we’ve always taken our lead from the United States in certain cultural matters. Much of […]

As a guy I’ll never truly understand many aspects of life unique to women. Just to look at my own partner, for instance, I know that I’ll never grasp the reason she sees the need to grow her fingernails into sharp, painful talons. The moment she’s finally satisfied with the length is the very moment […]

For several months now my partner and I have been living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The city is one of the most remote capital cities on the planet, and Mongolia itself is the most sparsely populated country on earth. As soon as winter arrives in Ulaanbaatar it’s easy to see why. Winter here is… well, it’s […]

Naturally, there’s nothing you want more than to give your baby the best, most comfortable blanket you can when it’s time for bed, not only because they’re your whole world but – and we’re edging away from parental love and into blatant self interest territory here – comfortable babies sleep better, and God knows you […]