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MGK Radio: Nintendo Wii & DS

by Steve on 8, March, 2010

Nintendo, as recently as 2005 looked to be on the ropes.  Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox had stormed the video game industry and many folks, not to mention video gamers, were quickly forgetting the once dominant player in the video game market.
Listen to our interviews with Nintendo ~ HERE (or visit the link on the [...]

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Healthy eating, nutrition, and understanding what food labels are REALLY saying were all topics covered in our grocery shopping tour with guest, Kimberly Lord Stewart.
Ms. Stewart is the author of Eating Between the Lines: The Supermarket Shopper’s Guide to the Truth Behind Food Labels.  She is the recipient of two 2004 Association of Food Journalist awards for [...]

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Three interesting site that I ran across that you might find interesting if …
You (or a loved one) has a lot of pills that they’re dealing with and they get confused.
You find pills in your child’s bag, jacket, etc.
You find some pills in your bathroom cabinet, travel bag, etc. and you’ve got some questions about [...]

MGK Radio: The Out-Of-Sync Child

by Steve on 3, February, 2010

Itchy tags.
Doesn’t like socks.
Won’t sit still.
Always fidgeting and moving around.
Sensitive to sounds.
Sensitive to light.
Difficult time properly using pens, pencils, etc.
Could it be you’ve got an Out-Of-Sync child?
These days it seems like there’s a condition for everything under the sun.  If your child (or you even) does anything short of sit still and follow directions there’s [...]

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WHO Calls Us “Irresponsible”?

by Steve on 25, January, 2010

The World Health Organization (aka WHO) is getting really annoyed at all of the people questioning them.  It seems this H1N1 “flu pandemic” fizzled out so much faster than all the hype around it that some folks are starting to ask questions … namely why all the hype?
An answer being suggessted, to the WHO’s obvious [...]

Love & Logic and Hot Stoves

by Steve on 23, January, 2010

We had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Charles Fay from the Love and Logic Institute this past weekend.  The full interview was longer than what we were able to air on Sunday so we’ve included the full interview above for your listening (and hopefully learning) pleasure.
What is the Love and Logic approach to raising [...]

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Ahhh, the good old days.  When you could take the family to a movie and not have to worry about it warping the minds of your little children or offending the senses of the adults.
A friend and I were just talking last night about how hard it is trying to let our kids enjoy the [...]

Epicurious.com is a great website with lots of great tools, recipes and articles.  This week I ran across their “Seasonal Ingredient Map” that show what fruits and vegetables are in season at what time of year broken out by month and state.  Cool tool that makes eating (and serving your family) the healthiest, freshest foods [...]

You Missed A Show?
Missed a show?  How could you?
Okay, besides you have a family and the show is on early Sunday mornings.
Then here’s your chance to catch up.  I’ll be posting full breakouts of all the shows we did in 2009 but in the meantime check out any of the shows that you might have [...]

Getting organized – your life, your kids, your house, your car, your office, your closet – it shouldn’t really be that hard, should it? Afterall, it’s one of the very first things they start trying to teach us, the very first time we walk into school (coats on your hook, bags and shoes in [...]

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The Muppets Are Back – On YouTube

by Steve on 12, December, 2009

Animal, Beaker and the Swedish Chef (along with all of the others) are back! Watch them for a good laugh and share them with your kids.

This one’s gone viral and racked up huge views all over the net already.

We spoke with Barabara Coloroso about her book “The Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander”.
We first came across her in the Costco Connection magazine, believe it or not, and thought she had some good information and good approaches.  Coincidentally enough in the last couple of months we’d had a couple of parents talk to us about [...]

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On the “My Great Kid” Radio show we had a great interview with Leslie Poston, social media expert and co-author of “Twitter For Dummies”. Leslie not only shared a lot with us about Twitter but also a ton about “social media” in general and what it means both for us as parents but also [...]

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Journalist David Kirby, from the Huffington Post and author of “Evidence of Harm”, discusses the newest numbers showing a sharp increase in Autism, concerns over the Hepatitis B vaccine and boys and his newest book “Animal Factory”.

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Wish I could say I wrote this ……
Can’t I Skip My 20 Mins.of Reading Tonight?

Let’s figure it out — mathematically!

Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night…or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 [...]

Came across a site called Techno Dys a little bit ago and wanted to take this opportunity to reccommend that you add it to your RSS feed.  They throw up a post a day with different site recommendations (amongst other things) and many of them are real winners worthy of your attention including:

Brightstorm – An [...]