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If you’ve never been to Albany – a whole square mile town just north of Berkeley – let me tell you, you’re missing out. Park nearly anywhere on lower Solano Avenue (for FREE) and I promise you’ll find a place to play, a place to eat, or a place to relax – even with kids in tow. Hanging around Albany with kids is our favorite. Find all you need in Albany just on or a few blocks off lower Solano Avenue. | PC: Anna Azimi Where to eat with kids in Albany: Boss Burger: Simple menu of burgers, fries, and...

Marc Cavell It's normal for us older people to fret about the generations that come after us. Plato wrote, "The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them."He was writing using the newfangled phonetic alphabet that his own teacher, Socrates, was convinced would make the next generation into blithering idiots. And he was writing about a generation of youth that included his own student Aristotle who,...

One of the most important things we all need in our lives is privacy. Whether that means limiting followers on your social media accounts or constantly closing your curtains so people passing by cannot see what you’re making for dinner, nobody wants to feel like they are being watched. But sometimes, especially when you live in a tight apartment building, even when no one else can see you, they might be able to hear you. One curious individual reached out to the Ask Reddit community and posed the question, “Redditors with thin walls, what have you heard in your apartment?”...

Hey friends! We’re back in North Carolina and back to school! School started for Chase this morning; his first day of first grade! I am admittedly not even kind of ready for summer to be over but Chase was excited to see his classmates and teachers again and, most importantly in his mind, play soccer at recess with Jack and Luke. Priorities. I’m just over here thinking school should not be allowed to begin until September but, in another breath, I know getting back into a routine will be a good thing for me, especially from a blogging and work...

These squishy squeezy pugs were up to some mischief and caught eating colorful lollipops. Kids squeeze their cute round bodies to find out which pugs ate which lollipops to reveal a colored tongue! This is a great first preschool memory board game where players take turns rolling two “lollipop” dice that determine which colors to search for. Players then match the colors shown on the dice to the pugs’ tongues. The first player to fill their grass pad with pugs wins. Why We Love It! Tongues Out! encouraged several early preschool concepts including color recognition, color naming, and color matching....