Gone are the days of sitting down and tuning in to watch your favorite shows live. These days savvy viewers watch their shows when they want and our kids are even getting into the act by streaming favorite content on Netflix. With the ability to set up separate profiles in your Netflix account for your…
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Streaming Cats & Dogs? 22 Movies for Animal Lovers to Stream on Netflix #StreamTeam
Whether you have a pet of your own or are enduring the pleading requests for a dog, cat, hamster, guinea pig, rabbit, or fish of your own, young animal lovers can get their pet fix thanks to an abundance of titles featuring favorite furry creatures on Netflix. From dogs and cats to jungle animals, this…
4 Things Parents Can Do to Teach Kids About Healthy Friendships
Bert and Ernie. Woody and Buzz. Batman and Robin. Jerry and George. Scooby and Shaggy. Garfield and Odie. Laverne and Shirley. Tom and Jerry. Wayne and Garth. Fred and Barney. Lucy and Ethel. Beavis and Butthead. Norm and Cliff. Phineas and Ferb. Beezus and Ramona…There’s no doubt that dynamic duos have been part of movies,…
Recognizing & Celebrating Milestones with Age Appropriate Movies & Shows
Ever since our kids have been born, it’s been one milestone after another. Each month of life was celebrated as we approached the first year including exciting developmental milestones like crawling, walking, a first word, and the first tooth. Milestones are special for kids and parents alike and honestly, they don’t ever get any less…
5 Steps for a Successful Family Movie Night
Friday nights used to be our nights to unwind with a family movie night until they became the busiest night of our weeks with back to back baseball practice, the occasional soccer scrimmage, and Girl Scout meetings. Yikes! Luckily our Saturday evenings are clear to preserve a fun tradition that the whole family looks forward…
5 Ways to Teach Compassion, Empathy, and Kindness to Our Children
With a new school year on the horizon, we’re gathering school supplies, checking to make sure fall clothes will fit when the weather turns, and wondering what our child(ren)’s experience at school will be like this year. We’re thinking about the math facts and writing skills they’ll be learning and hoping that they’ll be…
12 Family Friendly Musicals to Stream This Weekend
After a busy month and a half of travel, I’m looking forward to family movie night more than usual. Coming to a consensus on something all four of us want to watch can sometimes be tricky but musicals seem to be a genre that the kids can always agree on. Sound of Music, Mary Poppins,…
13 Movies That Bring Favorite Books to Life
With the second installment of the Hunger Games appearing on screens today, fans of the trilogy will be clutching hot movie tickets as they head to the theater to identify similarities and differences between the what they read in Catching Fire and how it comes to life on the screen. I spent the better portion…
