by Angela Santomero | My Kids Shows, Parenting
As a creator of childrens television programs, a reviewer can be your best or worst friend. It seems that kids tv is the last thing reviewers want to talk about. It’s not as sexy or interesting to them as say, reviewing the season premiere of Modern Family....
by Angela Santomero | Kids Screen Time, Parenting
This is something we do quite often on television. It’s part of our philosophy behind creating shows with a foundation in education but that kids want to tune in. We always incorporate humor that is age appropriate. But, we also always use humor to diffuse a...
by Angela Santomero | Kids Screen Time
Remember the little ball cartoon you’d draw in the lower right corner of your schoolbook & be so proud of yourself when a simple flip of each page would animate the ball? Well, time/technology has kicked it up a notch. We just stumbled across a FREE 3-day...
by Angela Santomero | Kids Screen Time
There is little question that an effective arts program can do wonders for our childrens’ emotional intelligence, problem solving and further development. With this in mind, about 7 years ago, we enrolled our daughter (at the time, age 3) in HiArt! A well...
by Angela Santomero | Parenting
Having an interactive component to media increases learning! We used this hypothesis when creating Blue’s Clues and Super Why. We know that kids can practice skills and retain information better by doing. Therefore, if we were to replicate the...