Kudos And Boodos; Celebrity Dad Videos Of The Weekend

Snow White And The Huntsman - World Premiere

Before we begin with the celebrity videos that rocked my world this weekend, let’s discuss the term “boodos.”  Urban dictionary swears boodos is the opposite of kudos, but I’m not sure I’m smelling what they’re stepping in on this one.  Is it a real word?  Can you add “boo” to any word and make it [...]

13-Year-Old Reviews (OMG! Awesome!): Million-Selling ‘Minecraft’

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Normally, I’m one of the top ten most awesome moms on the planet.  It’s true. And anyone who doesn’t believe me can extended breastfeed on my left mammary gland. However, the one area where I’ll admit to a small parenting glitch is when it comes to supporting my children’s interest in video games.  Any time [...]

When You Clear 1000 Hours In Angry Birds, Try Amazing Alex

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Last September, as I suffered through a back-to-school night in my daughter’s first grade classroom, a small, in-app pop-up alert came across my iPhone.  It said, “achievement unlocked.  30 total hours logged!”  That app was Angry Birds, and that alert ranks as one of the lowest moments in my life, second only to the time in 1989 [...]

MamaPop Interviews Dr. Bill Sears

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Dr. Bill Sears has been a pediatrician for the past 40 years, and has, as he told me himself, attended over 1,000 births. “There’s no question to me who the stronger gender is,” he said with an earnest laugh. And it is precisely this strength, as perceived by Dr. Sears, that makes attachment parenting such [...]

Insurance Commercials Make Me Feel Like An Inadequate Parent

"Dude, you're a legal guardian." "When?"

I watch a really wide variety of TV programming. I know this because the commercials that I see have such an obviously varied demographic, that I must be something of an outlier in the shows that I watch. For example, I normally spend my lunch break on the treadmill, which has a TV. Finding the [...]

MamaPop Remembers Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch

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On Friday, the world lost a bad-ass MC, a humanitarian, and an all-around good person when Beastie Boys founding member Adam “MCA” Yauch lost his battle with cancer at 47 years old. When the news hit Friday morning, many of us at MamaPop were profoundly affected. So, rather than just one of us writing the [...]

Boy Bands Around The World – Tween Review

Super Junior Boy Band

ONE DIRECTION! SQUEEEEEEEE! OMGOMGOMGOMG, THE WANTED ARE SOOOOOOO CUTE! BIG TIME RUSH…uhhhhmmmm…Big Time Rush is sooooooo…GNARLY! Are we still saying gnarly? No? Yeah, I’m not the target audience for boy bands, am I? The target audience for boy bands is mostly middle school girls wearing flowery mini skirts, all-weather flip flops, and coordinating rubber bands [...]