This month, Macaroni Kid is excited to introduce a new monthly column: Taking Care of Mama Bear.  The impetus for this column is our belief, indeed, our certainty, that moms are better able to care for others when they have cared for themselves. 
 
I recently posted the following question on Facebook: “why do so many moms I love fail to take great care of themselves when they are so awesome at taking care of everyone else?”  Several moms confessed to being “guilty as charged” – an interesting choice of words, since ...

Thanks all for the videos of kids doing immature things.  The top 10 entries will be getting their copies of The Encyclopedia of Immaturity, Vol 2 shortly.  Here's one of the top 10 entries we thought you might enjoy, thanks Natasha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrhgLpU5ms

Our son turns nine this year and since we both come from "camping" families, it was time to pick a sleepaway camp for Mason.  Simple right?  Not so fast.  According to the American Camping Association, there are 12,000 camps in the US.  OK, if we narrowed it down to sleepaway camps in Maine, that cuts it down to about 100 choices.  And we weren't set on Maine, so in the Northeast we still had hundreds more to choose from.
Way overwhelming!  What to do?  Simple, we hired a ...

I received a link from the nice folks at Scholastic for the new game from Big Fish Games...I Spy Spooky Mansion.  I downloaded it and tried to play the free one hour trial.  After about 10 minutes of bumbling around the first "room" in the Mansion I'd had enough and got back to work. 

A few days later, my son was in the office for about an hour so I let him "test" the game for Macaroni Kid.  Well he got out of that first room in about ...