If your house is anything like ours, morning is the most chaotic time of the day. Getting everyone out of the house on time - washed, dressed, and packed for school or work - is a real trick. This week, we want to hear about your mornings. Are they filled with mayhem, or [...]

Are you a budding sous-chef, or do you need a recipe to make ice cubes? Or, like most of us, are you somewhere in the middle? No matter how skilled you may be in the kitchen, we’re betting you’ve had a cooking calamity or two.
While that kitchen disaster certainly wasn’t funny at the [...]

“You’ve heard of the Texas-sized island of trash swirling in the Pacific? I’m sure there’s at least a Delaware-sized dump of single socks, lost mittens, sunglasses and tiny baby barrettes out there somewhere too.”
Barrettes and clips are a nearly inevitable part of parenting a little girl. Unless you resort to a pixie cut - and [...]

If you want to open the doors of opportunity for a child? Nurture a life-long love for reading. Early childhood research shows that youngsters (and yes, that includes babies) vastly benefit from someone reading to them a mere 15 minutes a day.  Reading is great “brain food” — for everyone!
One way to encourage an interest in reading [...]

Eight of our reviewers are gushing about the gorgeous invitations and announcements they ordered through tiny*prints. Every one of them has glowing things to say about the selection, quality, and customer service. It isn’t surprising that one reviewer wrote, “Tiny Prints. Go there. You will be pleased. That could be my entire review, but [...]

You may think your kids (and you too) hate bugs, but the Venus Fly Trap and Bug Net Launcher from the Discovery Channel Store are bound and determined to prove you wrong. And if your kids already dig bugs and you’ve got a steady stream of buzzing insects in your backyard, then those little [...]

“School is out next week, which means my boys will be home all day with nothing to do, because there is nothing fun to do here, despite bookshelves crammed with reading-level-appropriate books and bins full of toys that they once insisted they had to have, and an entire backyard to play in, plus the school [...]