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Snow Dogs + Hitting the Slopes = Kids Off The Couch
No matter where you live, kids and snow go together like hands and gloves. Whether your kids are starting out with a pizza-pie wedge between their first skis or just biding their time until their next snowboarding trip to a serious mountain, getting some slope savvy at your local ski resort [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
All The President’s Men + Visiting Your Local Newspaper = Kids Off The Couch
Kids who expect a multitude of information to magically appear from their computers don’t always understand the power of a free press. Watching All The President’s Men as a family opened up a conversation about how reporters follow a story and tell the truth, which makes this movie newsworthy in our household. It was [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kids Off The Couch Special Subscriber Discount to The Geffen Playhouse
In a mesmerizing one-man show, Darryl Van Leer channels historical figures such as Muddy Waters, Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr. and makes them come alive. Our kids loved how Van Leer set the stage as a folksy storyteller and then seamlessly shifted into each character using only simple props [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Snow Dogs + Hitting the Slopes = Kids Off The Couch
No matter where you live, kids and snow go together like hands and gloves. Whether your kids are starting out with a pizza-pie wedge between their first skis or just biding their time until their next snowboarding trip to a serious mountain, getting some slope savvy at your local ski resort [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
All The President’s Men + Visiting Your Local Newspaper = Kids Off The Couch
Kids who expect a multitude of information to magically appear from their computers don’t always understand the power of a free press. Watching All The President’s Men as a family opened up a conversation about how reporters follow a story and tell the truth, which makes this movie newsworthy in our household. It was [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kids Off The Couch Special Subscriber Discount to The Geffen Playhouse
In a mesmerizing one-man show, Darryl Van Leer channels historical figures such as Muddy Waters, Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr. and makes them come alive. Our kids loved how Van Leer set the stage as a folksy storyteller and then seamlessly shifted into each character using only simple props [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Brief Introduction to KidsOffTheCouch.com
Hello and Welcome to the Podcast Introduction for Kids Off The Couch – a free, “make your life easier” parenting tool.
Staying connected to today’s busy kids who are balancing school, sports and social schedules, is a challenge most parents face. Two Middle School moms have launched a website, www.kidsofftthecouch.com that gives parents great ideas for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bringing History To Life: Movies That Teach + Family Movie Night
With kids back in school, it is often hard to carve out family time. Since there’s nothing as cozy after a long week of classes as a Family Movie Night, we have created a list of great films that will complement your kids’ history courses. Take a moment to choose movies that help [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Past Roars to Life: The Land Before Time + Walking With Dinosaurs = Kids Off the Couch
Are your kids dino-obsessed? Do you remember when they read Danny the Dinosaur and dreamt of riding a dinosaur’s back? Our kids slept with their dinosaur books, memorizing each name — Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex — and have always wondered what it would be like to meet a real life dinosaur. But wonder [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Life is a Highway: Cars + Automotive Museum = Kids Off The Couch
Cars is one of those great family films that lures everyone from Grandpa to toddler with its old-fashioned values, cool car stars, hilarity and history. Our kids loved Lightning McQueen, the red-hot rookie race car with a big ego, who pulls off the fast lane and learns that sometimes you have [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Introducing Paul Newman to Your Family
We shed real tears at the loss of Paul Newman, whose legendary looks and powerful screen presence dominated the movies for years and whose charitable work (through the Hole in the Wall camps for seriously ill children and Newman’s Own) set an elegant example of how one man can make the world a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
