|
|
||
|
Image: CBS.com My daughter started watching The Big Bang Theory with my wife and me last fall, and she got hooked pretty quickly. Fox Mulder’s government contact once told him, “They’ve been here a very long time.” He was talking about aliens. I’m talking about my almost ten-year-old X-Files Season One DVD set, which I’ve been waiting to dust off and share with my daughter. Which would you rather have fall on your kid: a 36 inch screen, 236 pound Trinitron tube TV or a 40 inch screen, 43 pound Bravia LCD TV? The correct answer, of course, is neither. Unfortunately, it seems that many people have inadvertently opted for the second choice, with the number of children injured by [...] Team Umizoomi is a new kid’s show, geared toward the preschool set, premiering this week on Nickelodeon. Why are the GeekDads really excited about this? Well, for one thing, the show’s focus is on teaching preschoolers the basics of math. Yes, a math-based show, at last! I’ve watched the pilot of Team Umizoomi, and it’s [...] Question: if you had the ability to track your child’s every movement during the day, would you do so? Or is this an example of helicopter parenting taken to extremes? How about tucking a portable GPS unit in her backpack? In my experience, when it comes to home media centers, there are two main camps and an outlier. In the main camps are the uber-geeks who want to build everything from the ground up and those who go with a gaming console or one of a myriad of inexpensive devices that plugs in to a [...] Disney’s A Christmas Carol, favorably reviewed by GeekDad’s Jason B. Jones, is but the most recent in a long line of screen adaptations of Dickens’ classic. And through the years, I’ve argued with many fierce partisans over their favorites. In high school we all felt the crunch of growing up lost and seeking acceptance. We’re all gleeks in some sense of the word. Check out the GeekDad interview with Glee creator Brad [...] |
||
|
Copyright © 2010 The Hub - All Rights Reserved |
||
