Best kids DVD movies 2009

1. Bolt
its hard to fault Pixar – I don’t think they are the masters of Computer Generated Animation and i don’t think they have made a duff movie yet. This is a winning combination of a cute canine hero, a plot involving getting lost (see finding nemo), some lovable character (Rhino the pet hamster in [...]

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Next generation blogger

My 9 year old son has started a new blog all about nintendo games. Take a look at it and let me know what you think and how he can improve his blogging skills. We are using it as a literacy encouragement project as my son is a voracious reader but can struggle to generate [...]

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Best kids movies on DVD in 2008

Here’s my pick of the best kids movies on DVD in 2008. I am thinking of primary school aged children. There’s a similar list for 2007 and i have just made a 2009 list.
1. Wall-e
Irresistably good movie – even my two year old loves it – Wall-e was one of her first words! OK so [...]

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Help I am a Sunday School Teacher 2

Have had lots of really useful feedback to the last post. It seems there are a lot of Sunday School teachers out there that really want to influence the next generation but have the same struggles I do. lets keep talking.
Here’s what i am planning for tomorrow:
CREATION PART 2
CREATIVE slot (15 minutes)
We’ll watch this great [...]

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The best games console for kids – here wii go!

There comes a time in every father’s life where in the interest of helping his children to integrate socially into their peer group sacrifices must be made. Thinking purely of their needs (ofcourse the fact that I had always wanted a console had nothing to do with it) last Saturday I went out and bought [...]

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Help I am a Sunday School Teacher!

OK so I was the naive one that thought that plenty of experience in youth work, a PhD in theology and plenty of years of experience of pastoring a church would mean I could handle five 11-14 year olds. I now humbly ask for your collective wisdom in running a Sunday school [...]

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Best Console for Kids

I have five children of primary school age and under. We spent a long time looking at the right console for them – balancing playability, portability, sociability and of course price.
Here is my top console.

Nintendo DS (Dual Screen) Lite
These hand held game consoles are amazing.
Here are the main pros for this console:
1. Portability – [...]

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

(see the harry potter and the halfblood prince).
This is part 5 of the Harry Potter series. I must confess I have never read a whole Harry Potter book and so my review is based around the film as a film rather than as a literary conversion. I really enjoyed the movie – the centre piece [...]

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Bridge to Terebithia

I was expecting a predominantly fantasy based film along the lines of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Especially as it was made by Walden Media. What you get instead is a very intense drama about two children who don’t really fit in at school – so they construct a fantasy sanctuary in [...]

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Review of Children’s movies

Ok so a combined effect of a rainy August, 25p DVDs at Blockbuster have meant our family has watched a lot of children’s movies this Summer. Here’s some of our views on children’s DVDs. See also my 2008 recommendations. You can see some of the recommendations on my amazon store too:

1. Zathura – total rehash [...]

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