Our parents didn’t worry like we do, right? And maybe we can cool it too. Bring your anxiety level down with Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry). This super readable volume manages to pull apart the fears parents have, from abduction on down, and it shows that there’s […]

If you’ve ever read to your kids at all, you know that children’s authors tend to take a whole lot of liberty with their rhymes. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Margaret Wise Brown, but rhyming moon with … moon? I call shenanigans. Enter The Seven Silly Eaters, by Mary Ann Hoberman. Both […]

My daughter asks for the CD of “her friends,” as she calls them, singing nursery rhymes every single time we get in the car, so I needed something that would entertain her and not drive me batty. Thank God for Boston-based singer/songwriter Alastair Moock. A Cow Says Moock was inspired by Moock’s twin daughters so […]

If you’re anything like me, you hate to pay a lot for something your baby or kid will outgrow or lose interest in! That’s why Freepeats is so awesome. Just log onto Freepeats.org, find your local site, then you’ll be able to search the posts for “offers” of great, and most times barely used, baby […]

“Babies are not sweet. Babies are not precious. Babies are not cute …” so says big sister Sophie Peterman. In Sarah Weeks’ book, Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth!, Sophie tells it like it is when dealing with a new sibling, and does so with colorful, bold photos filling the entire page and text that gets […]

Thanks to the Internet, today’s parents have many more resources available to them than parents did 10-15 years ago, especially families that don’t fit the traditional mold. Billed as “an irreverent, inclusive, alternative parenting community,” the social network Offsprung provides forums for parents to discuss the unique problems of a diverse range of family types. […]