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Getting Boredom in Order with the PLAYMOBIL Arctic Expedition Headquarters!

Getting Boredom in Order with the PLAYMOBIL Arctic Expedition Headquarters! (Featured Image)

I think it’s time my four-year-old start reviewing his own toys.

Getting Boredom in Order with the PLAYMOBIL Arctic Expedition Headquarters! — The Boys and Their New Toy

I apologise to Swerve PR, but I’ve struggled to write a review of PLAYMOBIL’s Arctic Expedition Headquarters, an elaborate playset designed to get kids’ imaginations running wild. Struggling not because it’s a bad toy—trust me, it’s got more than enough facets and features to go around—but because I’m not the one playing with it!

See, I’m in the business of telling great stories, and stories work best when they’re about things you’ve experienced for yourself. I might acquire the toys—if needed, I’ll even assemble them—but the experience is the boys’ and the boys’ alone… so who better to tell you about it?

It was time to kick the authenticity up another notch.

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Keep Those Young Minds Yearning with NELSON Disney Learning!

Keep Those Young Minds Yearning with NELSON Disney Learning! (Featured Image)

For any of you who still can’t believe I’m a Dad, allow me to remind you that I have a kid starting kindergarten this September.

Yes, kindergarten.

Keep Those Young Minds Yearning with NELSON Disney Learning! — Right After Kindergarten Orientation

As we get closer to life with a school kid, I’ve observed what other parents are doing to ready their kids for it. Chalkboards with roughly scrawled names on them. Toys arranged on the table teaching simple arithmetic. With all these parents working hard to drum foundational skills into their kids, into their kids, I couldn’t help but feel a little… behind.

Which is why when NELSON, Canada’s leading educational publisher reached out for the Palmer fam to try their new Disney Learning book series, I immediately brought them into our lives!

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Help Dad Shine Bright with the Oral-B Genius 8000 Electric Toothbrush!

Help Dad Shine Bright with the Oral-B Genius 8000 Electric Toothbrush! (Featured Image)

Mama Palmer ain’t no joke, y’all.

When I recently visited the original Casa de Palmer this Mother’s Day to spend time with the woman who gave me life, she gave me gifts to take back for the fam! For the boys, there were clothes and toys. For Sarah, magazines and a top. And for me, the eldest of her three darling children? Well….

Help Dad Shine Bright with the Oral-B Genius 8000 Electric Toothbrush! — Oral-B Genius Parts — Crest 3D White Toothpaste

Yeah—seems she wasn’t as keen on my BConnected headshot as I was (it’s my profile pic on every social media channel), and that I could brush up on a couple of physical attributes before I let a camera get that close. (#DadJoke.)

But it’s not like she’s wrong—remember that commercial from 20 years back when a kid calls his teacher’s teeth “mother of pearl”? Yeah. That’s sometimes how I feel about mine.

I mean, how do we get to this point? We’re taught how to brush our teeth in preschool. But somehow many of us build horrible habits that stain and wear our teeth away, dulling our smiles as we grow older.

But fortunately, toothbrush technology hasn’t sat still over the years, continually bringing us new ways to take better care of ourselves… and our teeth.

My friends—welcome to the Oral-B Genius 8000!

Help Dad Shine Bright with the Oral-B Genius 8000 Electric Toothbrush! — Oral-B Genius 8000

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TRY YOUR LUCK: Fun’s a Sure Bet with PLAYMOBIL Take Along Sets!

Fun's a Sure Bet with PLAYMOBIL Take Along Sets! (Featured Image)

Not many bloggers I know personally have kids as young as mine. It seems almost alien to have kids by 30 these days, something I see reflected in my peers and the opportunities coming my way. So when things do come in with a 3-year old and 1-year old in mind, I feel it gives a fairly unique opportunity to show things from the perspective of our young family—and that’s precisely the case with PLAYMOBIL!

Fun's a Sure Bet with PLAYMOBIL Take Along Sets! — PLAYMOBIL 1.2.3 My Take Along Farm — In Action

Let me tell you—it pays to be a blogger’s kid!

Woe be unto you in Casa de Palmer if you come to the door and my eldest doesn’t know you—in his mind, couriers are the only other people to ring our doorbell, so you’d best not come empty-handed!

I do sometimes worry whether I’m spoiling these little guys, though. I didn’t think much of it at first, but recent events have sent me down other paths. Like when other Moms come over for playdates and mention how many toys we have. Or when the eldest puts two and two together, asking whether people “give me a lot of stuff.” Which in turn means that I need to do more with less, and make sure that the toys they do have are great ones.

Fun's a Sure Bet with PLAYMOBIL Take Along Sets! — PLAYMOBIL 1.2.3 My Take Along Farm — PackagingThat in mind, PLAYMOBIL sent along one of their PLAYMOBIL Take Along Sets for the boys, letting them discover the bits and pieces found within the PLAYMOBIL 1.2.3 Take Along Farm (MSRP $43.99)!

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