If you’ve spent any time at all reading parenting blogs lately, you’ve no doubt heard about The Savvy Source and their new Being Savvy city editors. From Boston to Berkeley (and a few dozen cities in between, with more coming soon), local moms and dads post daily about the ins and outs of their [...]

We parents hear a great deal about the environment, and many of us make personal lifestyle changes inspired by conservation. Naturally, our children share our interest - “My girls, like many other children today, are very interested in saving energy and keeping the earth clean” - and that common fascination is what makes the [...]

You may think your kids (and you too) hate bugs, but the Venus Fly Trap and Bug Net Launcher from the Discovery Channel Store are bound and determined to prove you wrong. And if your kids already dig bugs and you’ve got a steady stream of buzzing insects in your backyard, then those little [...]

“School is out next week, which means my boys will be home all day with nothing to do, because there is nothing fun to do here, despite bookshelves crammed with reading-level-appropriate books and bins full of toys that they once insisted they had to have, and an entire backyard to play in, plus the school [...]

Not surprisingly, based on the feedback thus far, the Bug Net Launcher and Venus Fly Trap from the Discovery Channel Store have been phenomenal hits with our bloggers’ kids.
In part, these toys are cool simply because they’re from the Discovery Channel Store: “I adore the Discovery Store folks. I mean, they have the coolest stuff [...]

With the price of gas topping $4 per gallon, our kids are getting an earful about the cost of energy. They might know about hybrid cars and solar-powered calculators. But how much do they really know about alternative energy sources?
Two new toys from the Discovery Channel Store provide older kids with a hands-on [...]

We parents might not be so fond of bugs, but to kids they’re absolutely fascinating. Capturing and observing creepy-crawlies is one of the best ways to spend spring and summer days - from a kid’s point of view, that is.
With these two new toys from the Discovery Channel Store, parents can get in on [...]

As babies grow into toddlers, and toddlers grow into kids, one of the greatest milestones occurs when they’re old enough to play games. Games can teach kids a lot of important concepts, like understanding rules and objectives, along with taking turns and sportsmanship. They’re a perfect indoor rainy-day activity, and a fun way [...]

I almost feel guilty, writing a post describing the fabulous Discovery Channel Store toys that our bloggers have been reviewing, when both of those toys  - the Discovery Tornado Lab and the Discovery Slide and Shoot Digital Camera - have grown so popular that they’re now on backorder until the end of February.  But on [...]

“I’ve got a riddle for you. What’s blue, talks, and keeps my kids busy for an hour at a time?
The Spark Talking Telescope!”
She’s not kidding; both the Spark Talking Telescope and the Spark Talking Microscope from the Discovery Channel Store have been top favorites of our parent bloggers and their children too.
The telescope was beloved [...]