Because you can only worry about razor blades in apples for a few more hours, here are some headlines from the worlds of science and parenting to freakout over the rest of the weekend: 610,000 cheap-ass Halloween flashlights sold at...

Cynical Dad NFL Power IndexHere are my top six teams in the NFL:New Orleans Saints (6-0)Indianapolis Colts (6-0)Denver Broncos (6-0)Minnesota Vikings (6-1)New England Patriots (5-2)Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2)I had a really good week last week. Time to ad...

Mad props to my inlaws on their awesome Halloween costumes this year. They told me all my talk of LEGO and Star Wars for GeekDad inspired them. I can live with that. Happy Halloween everyone!

Just a quick post to wish you all a Happy Halloween, and to remind to you sent your clocks back an hour. Instead of getting all fancy with the pumpkins this year, the boys designed their own jack-o-lanterns and I carved them up. Here they are from Sons 1 - ...

You know what might turn BRIO's fortunes around? Bringing back this molded plywood rocking ox with the red horns and foot rests and the blue felt seat that they introduced in 1967. Seriously, stack those things like Pringles and...

It's been a while since the CPSIA has been in the news, or at least since anyone's sent me anything about it. The CPSC's new lead and phthalates restrictions and testing requirements for childrens' products kicked in earlier this year,...

As everyone knows, the United Kingdom was founded as a prison island for criminals exiled from Camelot. Given the population's well-established propensity for child abuse, a national paedophile database is being set up, and everyone who gets within 100 rods...

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Parenting is one of a series of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, and Sarah Jordon. I was excited to be given a copy of this book by the authors. This book is ...

Last night, I took my daughter to the movies. It wasn’t her first trip to the multiplex - she say a Hannah Montana movie with her classmates on a field trip with her daycare. But it was her “first trip with my family”, she told me. There were a couple of animated ...

The Kennedy Family from London, Ontario (Canada) hold a yearly Halloween event benefiting the London Food Bank and featuring hundreds of Jack O’ Lanterns.   We arrived just as night was falling on the 30th and the home was already visible from blocks away thanks to the 700 carved pumpkins and ...