Tell Me About Amazon FreeTime
Kids and their devices. Keeping track of it all sorta feels like trying to grab a tiger by the tail doesn’t it? Especially since today’s techy tykes might know more about the ins and outs of your tablets and phones than you do. Well, in our never-ending quest to help parents feel like they have […]
How to Be Salt in a Hipster World
In the fifth chapter of the book of Matthew, Jesus laid out some pretty clear guidelines for how we future Christians should walk our walk and make a difference in a struggling and dying world. And He gave us some subtle thumps upside the head, too—just in case we were to start thinking that blending […]
You Want WHAT for Your Birthday Party?
We all know that poop ain’t pleasant. That’s why we hold our noses and give it lots of generally negative names such as “defecation,” “excrement,” “waste” and lots of other names. But it seems we’re living in a new age of bodily waste fandom. A time when a grinning internet emoji has grabbed our attention […]
Keep Your Hands on the Wheel! Love, Mom’
I’m sure you’ve heard statistics about teen drivers and texting, but just in case, let me repeat a few. First of all, according to a poll conducted by AAA, some 94% of teens acknowledge the danger of texting while driving, but more than a third admit to doing it anyway. They just can’t get that […]
Video Games and Successful Failure
We’ve heard it so many times before, from our parents, our teachers, from success gurus. “Learn from your failures,” they say. But, of course, every time we fail miserably our brains tell us, “Boy, I never want you to do that again.” Here’s the thing, though. All the greats down through history who changed the […]
Scarlett Johansson and Not Natural Things
In a recent interview with Playboy magazine, actress Scarlett Johansson was talking about her second marriage—now her second former marriage—and she offered up a now much-quoted opinion that marriage and monogamy are simply not natural. Here’s the Avenger star’s full quote: I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and […]
Easy Instagram Perfection … Not
Your Instagram account got you down? You know, the fact that it feels like all your pals have such casually picture-perfect lives while your impromptu shots always make you look like a disheveled version of near-death on a cracker? Well, here’s a little vid that suggests that “picture-perfect” isn’t quite as casual as it looks, […]
Introducing the Lead Balloon
Here we are at the beginning of a new year. And, of course, that means it’s time for the entertainment industry to look ahead to all the great things they will create, while cranking out awards for themselves in recognition of all the incredibly fabulous stuff they painstakingly have crafted over the last year. It’s […]
App-y Holiday, Mom
The holidays are here, moms and dads are making their lists and checking them twice, and kids are hitting the sack with visions of smartphones and hand-held tablets dancing in their heads. And odds are, a lot of them are gonna see those high-tech dreams come to a Christmas morning reality. Of course, with techy […]
Game Goods 2016: Bob Hoose’s Year-End Picks
Just when you think you’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s trending in video games, bam, along comes some stuff that shakes everything up. Augmented reality and virtual reality really hit the big time in the last six months or so. And on top of that, there were some pretty great regular old reality […]