Super Parents Talk

Children and Mistakes

Children and Mistakesby Alina Tugend, Author of Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong It’s crucial that we, as parents, allow our children to make mistakes and fail and figure out how to recover from them. We can’t rush in and fix every problem, whether it be forgotten homework, an awkward social encounter or not [...]

Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs

Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles By Heather Lende Published by Algonquin Books 978-1-61620-051-0 Description After a near-fatal bicycle accident in her tiny Alaskan town, bestselling author Heather Lende has an opportunity to contemplate faith and friendship, observe the breathtaking beauty of the northern wilderness anew, and truly come [...]

Connecting with Teens in a Small Screen World

By Dr. John Duffy, Author of The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens We are on vacation in Florida with another family. Three young teenagers are on board, my 13-year-old included. A number of times over the past week, I have peered over to see each of their beautiful faces lost in a 3 [...]

Angry Birds Rio Coming April 2011

From the makers of the hit ICE AGE series, RIO is a comedy-adventure, in 3D, about taking a walk on the wild side. Blu is a domesticated Macaw who never learned to fly, living a comfortable life with his owner and best friend Linda in the small town of Moose Lake, Minnesota. Blu and Linda [...]

Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer Coming June 2011

The film chronicles Judy Moody’s (Jordana Beatty) adventures in which she sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life with the help of her little brother Stink (Parris Mosteller) and fun-loving Aunt Opal (Heather Graham). The script, penned by Kathy Waugh (Peep and the Big Wide World) and Megan McDonald, is based [...]