My three year old got this doll for her recent birthday, and it is far and away my favorite present she received, and possibly hers, too.
Dress Up Adventure Dora is a large doll, about 15” tall. She comes in denim shorts and a cute pink top, with a yellow flower watch and her ever [...]

My daughter recently potty trained, and as is true much of the time she got the concept of peeing in the potty pretty quickly, but it took the promise of a doll house to get her to do number two. About a month and a half ago we got the Fisher Price Loving Family [...]

As a parent of a ardent dinosaur lover who is subjected to hours and hours of questions and conversation regarding dinosaurs, I knew - KNEW - we would be purchasing these Dinosaur Eggs as soon as I saw them. We picked them up at a local flea market but I’ve seen them around other novelty [...]

Straight Edge, Inc. is an educational supply company who’s mission is to encourage kids to read through innovative products. The Opinionated Parents have been reviewing several of their products over the past weeks and have been very impressed. We’ve had team members as well as friends who are parents, preschool teachers, early elementary teachers, [...]

My daughter had been begging for a Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses Princess Genevieve Barbie ever since seeing it in Target one day when we were supposedly shopping for a birthday present for another girl, so my son bought both the Barbie and the associated movie for her for Christmas.
The Princess Genevieve Barbie is [...]

The Dora Game House arrived at our home this Christmas and I’m not ashamed to say we just got around to opening it. Well, we unwrapped it at Christmas. But given the vast number of things we HAD to open - and all of the little twist ties and damned restraining devices that [...]

For Hanukkah this year my kids got a game called Chairs. It’s a very simple game with no real directions and no real game strategy other than a steady hand and a strong heart. The object of the game is to stack 24 colorful plastic chairs, one atop the other, into a big structural tower [...]

If you have children old enough to color, you are surely familiar with how quickly a pristine new box of crayons turns into a box of broken stubs and little peeled paper bits. It’s a scenario that I remember from when I was a little kid and as an adult, I find it oddly irritating.
Fortunately, [...]