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Zero tolerance and bullies are in league with the ignorant

One thing about the internet, it brings awareness to small incidents that become big things. Sometimes an unintended consequence is the root cause of the awareness and the rage that people feel when the small incident happens. Then the cycle repeats itself. When I went to sleep last night the story was relatively feel-good. A bully was picking on a blind student at Huntington Beach High School. Said bully got his comeuppance when an equally sized youth came up from behind him and smacked him to the ground.

I wake up and the school has suspended the youth who defended the blind student and kicked him off of the football team.

The police arrested the bully and released him back to his parents.

As an adult, there are so many things wrong with this story.

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Super Genius First Words is sight word reading fun

We have a sight reader in the house now. We know that he can read certain words, but he needs to gain the confidence to say the sight words that he knows aloud. He has had some sight word cards in the house for years and is just starting to see why they’re important. Blue Orange provided us with a set of Super Genius First Words so that we could let our young reader at them.

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Digimon Fusion Season 1, Volume 1 is on DVD

Anime fans in the United States have had to wait to watch Digimon Fusion on DVD. The series airs in English on NickToons and the second season is on the air now. Granted Digimon Fusion has been available on video, but it’s been the Japanese export and unless your Japanese was very good you weren’t able to understand most of it. Digimon Season 1, Volume 1 is now available on a 3 disc collection with 330 minutes of digital creatures and teen heroes.

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The new all age comic books for Wednesday, September 23, 1015

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Every Wednesday at least a dozen new all age comic books are delivered to you local comic book store. We’ll highlight all of the ones that are appropriate for any age reader here. This week there is a brand new graphic novel by Peanuts (starring Snoopy!), Adventure Time, Bart Simpson, Doodle Jump, Princeless Be Yourself, Wilds End Enemy Within and others.

New all age comic books for Wednesday, September 23, 2015 #NCBD

Happy new comic book day! Brace yourself for a brand new Snoopy graphic novel-Where Beagles Dare is a full length story, akin to the classic ones that they turned into half hour television specials. The conclusion of Princeless Be Yourself, Over the Garden Wall #2 is great fantasy, Sonic Universe #80 and more come out this week.

A new mini-series in line with Wild’s End comes out too. Wild’s End Enemy Within #1 (of 4) is a unique melding of WWII and wild farm critters like toads, mice and such. The art that we’ve seen is really amazing and we’ll be giving this book a review later this week.

The links will take you to TFAW, where you’ll save at least 10% on your order. If you’re looking for the closest shop to you then check out Comic Shop Locator. We look at the new all age comic books every week, if there’s a specific book you’re curious about just ask us! We’re also starting a podcast on this and other topics, just search Daddy Mojo, all age comic books or parenting in the podcast search on iTunes.

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Here are the basics about Homegating with HH Gregg

Can you smell what it is that you’re cooking? To paraphrase The Rock, that is one of the most important reasons why homegating was preferred over physically going to the game. Homegating is staying at home and watching the game. HH Gregg, a large retailer of electronics, appliances and furniture conducted a study on tailgating vs. homegating. 70% of people said that they’d rather homegate, instead of physically going to the game. No place can take over for the sheer experience of a stadium; however, your big screen television, home grilled food, creature comforts and the money that you saved on tickets make a compelling argument to get on the homegating bandwagon to say at home in your fan cave.

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Lumberjanes #18, believe the hype on this all age comic

Creating a great all age comic is thin line. Is it a boy’s comic? If so, don’t make it too girly or they’ll demo out of it quickly, if they read it at all. If it’s aimed at the girls then it’s a rare breed of comic that is usually set in Riverdale. * Lumberjanes is from Boom Studios and has been building buzz since its first issue. We read it a couple times and meant to write about it, but got distracted by shiny objects or cat videos. However, after reading a handful of issues it’s apparent that Lumberjanes is the comic that you need to read that you might not be reading.

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Planning our Miles From Tomorrowland party #Spon

We were compensated or provided product for this post. All thoughts are our own. How to entertain a kitchen full of kids who are craving adventures from the Callisto family. Miles Callisto and his family travel through space engaging in all kinds of adventures with aliens, a robot ostrich who help Miles and other fun characters. The show is a big hit with our kids and they love watching it whenever they go somewhere that has cable-hello grandma’s house! We planned a party with a group of our oldest child’s friends, complete with some Miles From Tomorrowland toys, here’s what we learned.

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