Beware the Video Monkey on Your Back

My mother is coming to town for Thanksgiving, which can mean but one thing for JP and Ellie: GRANDPARENT BRIBERY BONANZA! Yes, good ole Grandma Diane knows better than to get around the grandkids without peace offerings in the form of clothing, books, sketchpads, candy, and, in this case for JP, videogames. I’m a little …

Taiwanese Internet Parent-Child Endangerment Video!

Now that wacky Taiwanese reenactment videos have become a reputable genre in their own right–akin to Noh theater and the bromance films–I imagine it’s time for DadWagon to forward along the latest, kiddie-related specimen. This one is about whether or not parent over-sharing on the Intertubes brings harm to our offspring. Since we here at …

Video and the Origin of the Species

From my friend SkimKim, who has a funny and profane foodblog from the urban wastelands (and who showed me how to dismember a goat last year), comes this pretty incredible piece of existentialist urban stop-motion wall animation (does that cover it?). I’m not gonna try to make this be about fatherhood, except to say that …

Any Good Edutainment Videos Out There?

More than a year after we started Sasha watching the “Baby Signing Time” series of DVDs, she’s had enough. Now, every evening when we turn the TV on to watch Rachel de Azevedo Coleman and her animated friends Alex, Leah and Hopkins (the Frog), Sasha freaks out. Sometimes we think it’s because, from volumes 2 …