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by Mom It Forward on June 28th, 2012 | No Comments »
Nicole Lazarro, an expert in the emotions of video games, after conducting extensive research, identified four keys of fun, or four reasons why people play video games. They are "easy fun," "hard fun," "people fun," and "serious fun." I and my three-year-old son recently played Elmo's Monsterpiece, a…
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by Mom It Forward on November 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Review—If you were a Sesame Street monster who found one of your monster friends despondent because he was the only attendant at his own birthday party, you would try to cheer him up, wouldn't you? You might help him pick a really fun outfit, hang a few streamers, or…
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on February 14th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After flunking out of Fashion Week the day before, I felt refreshed to find myself in the Hasbro Showroom yesterday with a much more familiar face—Elmo! He didn't judge my not-so-fashionista ways or my uncanny ability to screw up time zones. Instead, in his "let's take it up a few…
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