Archives for April 2008

Celebrate the Earth: Music for a Green Planet

I am a harsh critic of children's music. I don't like most of the crap that is out there, and I don't understand why children should be subjected to poor musical compositions just because they are children. Based on my strong musical opinions, it was with hesitancy that I … [Read more...]

Secret Mom Tricks

Earth Day is nearly past, but there's a few minutes left to just have a laugh after a day of celebration. I'm about to share my double-secret mom tricks. Now, keep these to just us parents, right? Now and then, we parents have to be creative. Someday, if our kids are lucky, … [Read more...]

Gorilla In The Greenhouse: Schoolhouse Rock For The Green Age?

How do you get your kids to care more about and take action on improving the environment, when the world they're focused on is on their iPod, their Wii, their phone, and online? If you're SustainLane, you meet them where they are, and create a web based animation series and also … [Read more...]

Celebrate the Earth: Tracking Shadows to Become Human Sundials

The other day, my daughter asked me what time it was. I gazed up at the sun and told her it was 3:30 pm. She checked her watch, and then in astonishment asked me how I knew the time. She had no idea that you could tell time from the sun, even after we had just visited the … [Read more...]

Celebrate the Earth: Create Art Outdoors With Your Children

One of the ways Impressionism revolutionized the art world was by taking the creation of art from the studio to the outdoors. In fact, Impressionists have been called "open air" painters, because they took advantage of the mobility offered by the invention of tubes of paint and … [Read more...]