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Masks and COVID-19: What, Why and Where

May 14, 2020May 6, 2021Gfnadmin

A little background: I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we’re required to wear face masks when we’re out in public. I recently took my weekly socially-distanced trip to the grocery store. I grabbed my hand sanitizer, put on my facial mask, and headed to Lucky’s. And while I was happy to see […]

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‘Wisdom from Mom’ – Advice for Living: Something for Pretty Much Everyone

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019John Booth

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Listen to your mother.” Jenny Bristol did – and then she wrote it down to share. The result is her first solo non-fiction book, Wisdom from Mom: Advice for Living. Bristol is a GeekDad editor, a founding director of GeekMom, a co-author of Geek Mom: Projects, Tips, and Adventures for Moms […]

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Send Your Kids to College With Everything They Need in One Box: The College Student First Aid Kit

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019Ken Denmead1

Reading Time: 3 minutes The College Student First Aid Kit This post was sponsored by The College Student First Aid Kit. My kids have seen me receive a lot of stuff for product reviews over the years, and while they’ve been interested in some of them (usually headphones), for the most part, that was dad’s […]

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In Light of ‘Avengers: Endgame:’ Parents, Please Talk to Your Kids About Spoilers

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019Gfnadmin

Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo by Flickr user Katie Tegtmeyer, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in 2015, but in light of this weekend’s huge release of Avengers: Endgame, we thought it appropriate to re-run it. I was 11 and in the sixth grade in 1983, and […]

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Scary Bad Halloween Jokes for the Whole Family

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018Gfnadmin

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s always a good time for a bad joke. Halloween gives us all kinds of monsters and mayhem to play with. We think it is a ghoulishly good time for some ammunition when the neighborhood kids need a little trick with their treat. Enjoy these fun and awful Halloween jokes! Why […]

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5 Boo-tiful Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe From Vehicles This Halloween

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018Gfnadmin

Reading Time: 4 minutes Use your cameras and make sure you double-check your blind spots on Halloween. (Image: Chevrolet) Halloween is just around the corner! Heck, if you live in a town that shifts trick-or-treating to the weekend, it might even be tomorrow! For some of you, that means heading out your front door and […]

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Using a Cellular Apple Watch as Your Kid’s Cell Phone

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018Gfnadmin

Reading Time: 11 minutes It is feasible to just send your child off to school with only an Apple Watch (Photo by Skip Owens) When my 13-year-old told me she really didn’t want a smart phone but my wife and I needed to be able to reach her (since we both work) I immediately thought […]

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10 Things to Know For Your Family Trip to Aulani – Disney’s Hawaiian Resort

June 26, 2018June 26, 2018Ken Denmead

Reading Time: 3 minutes Aulani is Disney’s family-friendly resort on O’ahu, Hawai’i. It’s filled with pools, food, stories, and the kind of high-quality experiences that Disney is famous for all over the world. But if you want to have the best experience, here are a few things you should know. A stay at Aulani is […]

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Restricted Pokemon Go Trading, Image: Sophie Brown

How Pokemon Go Trading Has Cheated Its Youngest Fans

June 22, 2018June 22, 2018Sophie Brown13

This week, Pokemon Go Trading and Friends were finally announced, news Pokemon Go players have been waiting years for. Only there’s a hitch.

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We Need To Stop Losing Immigrant Children and Taking Them From Their Parents

May 25, 2018May 25, 2018Gfnadmin

Reading Time: 3 minutes The safety of children, and keeping families together, is vital. There are very few things we’ll write about at GeekMom and GeekDad that touch on the political sphere. Primarily that’s because we understand that our writers and our readers stretch across many perspectives and backgrounds, and that it makes more sense […]

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The Littlest Players: Games for You and Your Toddler

April 23, 2018April 23, 2018Gfnadmin

Reading Time: 11 minutes Photograph by Sara Blackburn If you’re a board gaming parent like me, probably at least .001% of the reason you had kids was to make it easier to play your favorite games at player counts higher than two. Coordinating schedules with other adults is tough. Your kids are a captive gaming […]

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Dealing With Darth Vader Fears

May 25, 2017December 12, 2017Rebecca Angel

Seeing Star Wars on the big screen didn’t traumatize four year old Rebecca Angel. Playing through it helped make Darth Vader ok.

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How To Shift ‘Mom’s’ Work To Kids

March 8, 2017December 12, 2017Nivi Engineer

In our house, it’s all about who’s got the time to help out (it’s really rather communist around here—from each according to his abilities, to each according to his need).

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6 Important Lessons Parents Can Learn from ‘Logan’

March 7, 2017December 12, 2017Karen Walsh

We may not be mutants, and we may not have expected it from a movie about Wolverine, but at the heart of ‘Logan’ are six important lessons about parenting.

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Don’t Worry: Fantastic Parenting and How to Achieve It

March 3, 2017December 12, 2017Nivi Engineer

Newt knows his beasts, offers them a safe and comfortable home, accepts them for who they are, and works with them to succeed. He strives to make the world a place that is more accepting of them.

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3 Alternatives to Elf on the Shelf to Inspire Kindness

3 Alternatives to Elf on the Shelf to Inspire Kindness

November 27, 2016December 9, 2017Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley4

Many years ago, we tried the Elf on the Shelf. It was a desperate parenting move; I had a newborn, a toddler, and a brazen 3-year-old. In our case, the Elf on the Shelf backfired. That scoundrel caused far more trouble than he was worth.

If you are in a similar boat, or if you are just in need of an alternative, I have three fantastic options for you.

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EG Mum’s PAX Adventures – Episode 2

November 22, 2016December 15, 2017Evil Genius Mum

What has four legs, is cranky, and exhausted?
Every Geek Parent who has ever taken their kids to a Convention.

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Confessions of a NaNoWriMo Dropout

November 22, 2016December 9, 2017Nivi Engineer1

That’s right, I dropped out. Yeah yeah, I know, there’s still more than a week left before the end of the month, but come on, let’s stop kidding ourselves, shall we? This just ain’t happening.

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Boredom Fuels Creativity and Imagination in Children

November 20, 2016December 9, 2017Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley6

As a parent, it can be challenging to listen to whining and squabbles over boredom, but if you can get past that, boredom fuels creativity and learning!

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Bottle-Flipping: Five Reasons to Go With the Flow

November 2, 2016December 9, 2017Nivi Engineer

Before you tell me there’s no intrinsic value to bottle flipping, consider the following five reasons to go with the flow… or stick with the flip.

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