December 3, 2011 If you have a red and green umbrella, tonight may be a good night to show it off. Lowell's Santa Parade and Grand Haven's Jingle Bell Parade are both tonight.
Hearing that the iPad is the number one things kids want for Christmas this year made me feel... well, really old. It made me nostalgic for the 90s, a seemingly simpler time, when some neon scrunchies and a My Little Pony would have blown my mind on Christmas morning.
My older brother had an unfortunate basement flooding issue recently. One good thing that came out of it is that it forced him to go through boxes of items he'd just been moving around for years. A real gem he came across was a Christmas list he'd written as a kid. His best guess is that the year was 1992, as his top desired items were silk shirts and Ninja Turtles.
A teacher in Rockland County, New York may have to change her name to Scrooge after she told her second grade class at George Miller Elementary School that Santa Claus isn’t real.
November 28, 2011 Think back to when you were a kid, what was the top thing on your Christmas list? I'm pretty sure that between the ages of 6 and 12, mine varied, but always included the latest book in whatever series I happened to be reading (Berenstein Bears, Babysitter's Club, etc.), some form of Nintendo game (which I would inevitably have to share with my brothers), and clothes. I never asked for anything extravagant, because, frankly, I knew I wouldn't get it.
Turns out that kids these days don't think the same way.
According to a Harris Interactive survey of adults planning to buy children’s presents this holiday season, the most popular kid’s gift items — more popular than video games, board games and dolls — are books.
November 25, 2011
Remember the stir caused by the supposed sexual "subliminal messages" in Disney movies? I'll admit I watched the balcony scene from Aladdin over and over, and finally did hear Aladdin mutter to the tiger "Good teenagers, take off your clothes"-- it's in there, I swear! Well, something like that is happening with a toy on shelves this Christmas season. If you're out and about shopping today, you might want to avoid the dolls that some are claiming have a swearing problem.
