Advice for Dads

Netflix for Babysitters?

January 4, 2012 Advice for Dads

How many family members in your household access your Netflix account? Netflix has made some progress on making their service more family friendly, and for my daughters’ sakes they’ve got a little further to go…. We enjoyed a long New Year’s weekend away from home, spending most of our time at the indoor pool at our hotel, [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: TEGU Mobility

December 18, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! In this digital age of touch screens and tablets where kids play by swiping a screen, should we be concerned about the impact this trend is having [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Skylanders Spryo’s Adventure

December 17, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! As a kid, my friends and I loved playing co-op video games on the original Nintendo like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Working together as we battled foot [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Fisher-Price See Yourself Camera

December 16, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! There’s nothing more annoying (or embarrassing) of having to retake photo after photo of a self-portrait shot of you and your friends to put on Facebook. Luckily [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Model Magic Jewelry Boutique

December 15, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! Designer jewelry kits for young girls usually have a lot of one thing in them: Air! Isn’t frustrating to open up a package to realize only ¼ [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Connect 4 Launchers

December 14, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! Let’s face it, some family board games aren’t much fun to play when you need to “accidently” make mistakes to let your kids win. This is true [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Star Wars Ultimate FX Lightsaber

December 13, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! It’s amazing how quickly our brains are rewired after watching Star Wars. From that moment on, any long object (i.e. stick, broom, whiffle-ball bat) triggers a synaptic [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Perplexus

December 12, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! There are fun toys and there are frustrating toys, but it’s quite rare to come across one where you’ll want to pull your hair out in bafflement [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Spooner Boards

December 11, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! When we were kids, the best toys were often the ones that didn’t require any batteries or complex instructions. A simple cardboard box or wrapping paper tube [...]

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The Ultimate Christmas Toy Guide For Dads: Squishables

December 10, 2011 Advice for Dads
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To celebrate this holiday season, The Toy Wall is helping Playground Dads everywhere find the coolest toys for their families in this 12 Days of Christmas Toys series! Every now and then, a plush company comes along that successfully hits the right nerve with an audience that immediately becomes as impassioned as the creators themselves. [...]

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