Entertaining kids: Celebrity mums and kids, games, books, TV & movies

Heroic effort to join forces

George Palathingal The Avengers has been a team-building exercise on a truly superhuman scale.

McConaughey to marry for kids

After six years together and two children, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves are ready to tie the knot.

REVIEW

How to Train your Dragon Arena Spectacular

Melanie Mahoney If you loved the movie prepare to be amazed by the awe-inspiring stage production.

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'Wild Things' writer dies at 83

Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood.

Girls have been hungry for this revolutionary heroine

Dannielle Miller If sales of the books and early movie tickets for the new teen fiction series The Hunger Games are anything to go by, it seems teen girls are starved for a heroine with real fire.

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Child's play on the little screens

Warren Buckleitner Here are a dozen apps for all those well-behaved kids who got an iPad or iPod Touch for the holidays.

Mother feels call of duty when son has a video game in his sights

Sarah Napthali I confess, I was one of the zillions of well-intentioned mothers who would never allow her sons to wield toy guns. Yet faced with their passion for gun play and research suggesting this was normal, I eventually surrendered. Soon enough, the sounds of ''POW POW'' began to feel normal, innocent even.

Outdoor adventure activities

Katie Carlin The weather is warming up and it’s time to get the kids outdoors into the sunshine for some good old fashioned fun. We have put together a list of exciting, messy and adventurous games and activities that will have your kids forgetting all about their video games.