Dumbo – One of the Most Beautiful Films I Have Ever Seen! BY RANNY LEVY –  President of Kids First! From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand

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Gramma’s spirit lives on – Moana By Pat Hanson, PH.d. Disney’s latest film has messages in it for all grandparents, including those estranged from their adult children who have “invisible

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2016 Orange County GRANDparents of the Year JACK AND GAIL ADAMS Jack and Gail have four young grandchildren ranging in age from three to 13. When their oldest two grandsons

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Disney’s Jungle Book is Now Available on DVD/Blu-ray/Digital HD By Ranny Levy – Founder/president of KidsFirst! From Disney animation comes the live-action film, The Jungle Book, based on the classic

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By Ranny Levy – Founder/President www.Kidsfirst.org From our friends at Walt Disney Animation comes Zootopia, the story about a city of anthropomorphic animals where a fugitive con artist fox and

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By Ranny Levy – Founder and President of KidsFirst! Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to

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By Ranny Levy – Founder/president of KidsFirst! Warner’s latest prequel to the classic, Peter Pan, features 12-year-old orphan Peter spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds

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By Ranny Levy, This new Disney / Pixar film explores the bumpy road of pre-teens and the emotions they experience when growing up. Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest

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By Ranny Levy, Founder/President KidsFirst! From Disney comes the live-action Cinderella directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Lily James, Cate Blanchette and Richard Madden. The story takes off when Cinderella’s

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By Ranny Levy, GRANDmom Extraordinaire & Founder, KidsFirst! Tinker Bell Saves the Pixie Dust in Disney’s new The Pirate Fairy Disney has a pretty good grasp on stories about fairies

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Following the success of Cars in 2006, Disney released Planes in 2013, now on DVD. The colorful planes (and trucks and forklifts) are the characters in this children’s movie with

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Looking for arts and crafts projects to do with your grandchildren?  You’ll find thousands of fun ideas at these crafting sites and blogs for toddlers to teens   StitchwerxDesigns.com The

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By Ranny Levy Finding Nemo, the 2003 film that captured hearts and won the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2004, has gotten a studio makeover and has been filling movie theaters

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By Ranny Levy Jack planted magic beans and grew a giant beanstalk. What Cindy and Jim Green plant is something more ephemeral – heartfelt dreams and desires – and what

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Mia and the Migoo’ a Hand-painted Masterpiece in an Era of CGI By Ranny Levy, Founder and President of Kids First!   With this new release of Mia and the

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Check out HDnet Movies kidScene By:  Ranny Levy,  President and Founder of Kids First! For many grandparents, a fun thing to do is to share some of the classic family

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By:  Ranny Levy for KIDS FIRST! Wondering whether to take your grandkids to see the new Pixar film, Brave? From my point of view, I wish to inspire the young

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Sunday night, the Disney-owned ABC network opened its broadcast of the 2011 Billboard Music Awards (8:00 p.m. ET) with a sexually explicit performance of the song “S&M” – while rating

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