As a developmental psycholinguist Renate Zangi not only knows her field but also how to convey her advanced understanding to those of us without a doctorate. “Raising a Talker” has an accessible tone with simple instructions broken down into manageable parts: “Skills Fostered,” “Goals,” “Materials,” “What to Do,” “What to Look For” and an end […]
Looking for a great vocabulary building game for preteens? Look no further. Using the exciting element of a timed race against your opponents, players race to write down as many words as they can find in a grid of 13 hexagon letter tiles. At the end of the round, players compare lists, but here’s the
Breast feeding moms know that breast milk is considered liquid gold. Some Mom’s told us how upset they would get anytime any of their milk spilled or if they put too much milk in the bottle and the baby would not finish the whole bottle. But one of the biggest milk wasters is when you
Nursing mothers who saw Milkies Freeze were instantly drawn to it. They told us stories about their freezer’s which they described as complete disasters with bags of frozen breast milk everywhere and the frozen bags were in all shapes and sizes. After using Milkies Freeze they delightedly reported that they had completely changed the way
The real beauty of software like StoryBoom is in the way it brings reluctant writers out of their shell. Using methods and techniques that make it fun to move stories along and excite children about the process, StoryBoom delivers the goods. Of course being able to add images and make stories more like a graphic
Steve Spangler is a kid at heart. That has to be the reason he was able to design a science kid that truly connected with kids. His kit is designed to hand over the keys to real experiments with rocket science. Our testers got to see what its was like to shoot rockets into the
We had our testers spend time with Brain Tickling Science over the summer break which turned out to be a perfect tonic for summer boredom. Give kids the tools and instructions to experiment and create scientific experiments then all you have to do is sit back and wait for the results. Parents were impressed with
The name of this product had young boys clambering to open up the box and get to work making items of doom. After all that’s what the box says, right? Not so fast. This is really more of a scientific experiment than a typical “toy”. Inside you will find many different ingredients to create a
ALEX’s new Color a Rocket was instantly appealing to testers. From the moment they saw the box, they got excited about giving their kids a chance to color and create artwork on a such a large scale. The size of this rocket gives kids (often many at one time) a chance to be on their
Zoob is back as a Seal of Approval winner and if you were to ask any of our staff they would tell you that it comes as no surprise at all. This is a fantastic building set and it just keeps getting better. Testers this time around were introduced and impressed with just how sturdy
