• Conventions - Mom Life

    Surviving a Comic Con with Your Teenager

    While my child-related Comic Con expertise lies in the little kid stuff, today’s guest blogger Emily Parker from The6Parkers is taking up the challenge of bringing teenagers to a convention. From group cosplay to just getting them to put down their phones, Emily dishes out a little advice based on her daily experience of raising four kids who are no strangers to the geeky side of life.   Surviving ComicCon with Your Teen This year, we are going to MegaCon! The kids and I haven’t gone to a convention as a group in several years. Last time that we went,…

  • Geek of the Week

    Geek of the Week: Emily from The 6 Parkers

    The latest Geek of the Week is my friend Emily Parker- supermom to four, dog whisperer (she often watches our aussie Sierra), cosplayer and blogger at The6Parkers.com.   1) Introduce yourself: I’m Emily Parker. I work in the non-profit field and in my free time, I blog at The6Parkers.com 2) What do you geek out on?   I absolutely love Doctor Who and all things Batman. I love superheroes in general. Before I went back to work, it was rare to see me in anything besides a geeky shirt of some kind. I now cosplay as a normal person during…