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What Moms and Dads Said About Braincandy

As you know I don’t blog very much about our company Braincandy except when I think it’s relevant to the discussion about balancing parenting, education and the tools we use to help our children learn. As we approach our launch on October 16th with Borders and Amazon, I had the rare opportunity of doing “focus […]

After School Sports: A worthwhile juggling act

In our house, the transitions to both back-to-school and back-to-sports have been less than smooth; I feel as if we are always running late (maybe because we are!). At least twice a week, you’ll find me frazzled, hunting for dirty soccer socks lost under the couch and scouring the kitchen for extra bottled water.
Sometimes running […]

Kids and computer time - setting boundaries while enhancing learning opportunities

As a person who worked at Microsoft for 10 years I’m not what you would call a “technophobe.” I believe in technology—both as a communications and learning tool. Both of my children have computers and we’ve dabbled here and there with computer games. Last year Logan spent a bit of time in an after school […]

The Genius of Baby Einstein

As the co-founder and creator of Braincandy I know it must seem odd to be blogging about Baby Einstein, however I came across this op-ed in the New York Times last week that seemed to diffuse some of the controversy in the over 200 articles I’ve read on this subject ever since the University of […]