Integrating a baby monitor with the iPhone is brilliant. Adding a soothing voice to calm the child and recording features so catch coughs and sneezes is genius! Most apps keep you fixed to your smart phone. The iPhone Baby Monitor and Alarm is the first application I have ever downloaded that made it possible and enjoyable to be away from the iPhone itself. I wonder if Apple is completely aware of this… Continue reading
My game collection is officially out of control. It is time to take charge of the situation and get things organized! I will be using the Brother P-Touch labeler to clearly identify games and containers. But before I do so, I must test the durability of the product. Will the labels last or quickly fail to the onslaught of devistation? Continue reading
A fellow geek and single mom writes to Father Geek asking us how we handle cheating. While it might be easy to simply call the little geek on the behavior and be done with it, you need to address the root cause of the behavior. Failure to do so could lead to cheating in the future and no lesson is learned in the process. The Father Geek staff weigh in and give their own stories in hopes of shedding some light on a situation we’re sure you’ve run into, too! Continue reading
This video game (available on the iPad and Mac) will provide your little geeks with a mathematical challenge as they attempt to win prizes. The game also allows the parent to audit their little geek’s progress and adjust the level of difficulty if required. This should please the Parent Geek as a useful educational video game tool. But with a world filled with flashy and exciting video games, will a math-based game with a boy wizard magically charm your Child Geek? Continue reading
GUBS is fast and fun. There is enough meat in the game to make it interesting to the Gamer Geek, promotes togetherness and growth making the Parent Geek happy, and is fast and easy enough for the Child Geek to learn and appreciate. All in all, GUBS is a great game! Continue reading
While football is prominent in the movie and narrative, it is not the only, or the most important, game being played. The real game is the one we play with ourselves everyday when we make choices. Do we go left or right? Pay off our car with some extra cash or take the family on a vacation? Do we chase fame and fortune or happiness and substance? What is important to us and why? Gather the family, pop some corn, and enjoy a family-friendly television movie about life, family, and football. Continue reading
A deceptively complex and deep card game that will reward you with quick play, challenge your critical and logical thinking, and any semblance of strategy or tactics you might have learned with other card games. A bit too complex for your little geeks younger than 10, but for the Geek family with older little geeks, you can expect to have a good deal of fun at the family gaming table. Continue reading
FX is a fun new comic with easy to like kid heroes and characters. The illustrations are colorful and compliment the action and drama of the story very well. Pacing is fast and furious and the reader will be left breathless as the comic plunges full speed ahead into adventure and danger. If you are looking for a new comic or a first time comic to share with your little geeks, give FX a try and use your own power of imagination for a great time. Continue reading
Hike succeeds at what it is trying to be: a light, family-based game that can be played quickly and keep the attention of little geeks. There are some simple strategies in the game, like at the level of Crazy Eights, but works well for the opportunity of flexibility. This is a good family game to pull out with young kids and help teach the basics of game play, like taking turns, and handling 7 cards. Continue reading
Pentology is a modern day version of the traditional playing cards but with a firm footing in fantasy. To that end, Pentology is not a game in itself; no more or less than a deck of traditional deck of playing cards. It provides all one needs to be freely creative to design and play their own games. The sky is the limit with this gem and I couldn’t be happier. For so little, it delivers a seemingly endless variety and replay. Continue reading
Our lives are in a constant state of motion, be it physically or mentally. We only tend to slow down when we sleep, but even then, our subconscious minds go wandering through dreamscapes. A life on the go demands a solution that can provide us what we need based on our our changing requirements. I might just have found the perfect solution to all my “on the go woes”. Continue reading
Happiness is a feeling that we can all experience, but the source of happiness is not universal. I asked my family what is good in life to see if we had any similarities. The results were unexpected and legendary. Continue reading
