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BusinessWeek's Best Places to Raise Your Kids

A large part of your home is the state and town you choose to live in. This year BusinessWeek's rounded up the best town to raise kids in each state. The Chicago suburb of Tinley Park ranked top in ...

Hot or Not? BCelebrated Memorial Website

There's a lot about this that makes sense, and a lot that just sounds so strange to us. Basically, you create private pages with special messages for loved ones, as well as add your contacts so that ...

Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2009
The New York Times

The Times' annual list of best kids' books is something we look forward to every fall. Without fail, we find ourselves using this list to guide our holiday gift-giving decisions. This year's picks did...

Princess Tea by Janeen Sarlin
Parties and Treats for Little Girls

Who doesn't love a tea party? Or playing princess? (Okay, maybe a few little guys we know.) Janeen Sarlin's book Princess Tea is brimming with ideas for parents and grandparents for hosting tradit...

I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas
by Anna Getty

Most of us will be doing (or at least buying) less this holiday season, but there's no reason to feel down about it. Less is good for your wallet, your spirit and certainly for the earth. Our plan...

Five Baby Books Under $25

We admit to only writing in our son's baby book sporadically, but we're still happy to have it and think he'll be tickled to read our observations about him at this young age. And we didn't have to...

Weigh In: Where The Wild Things Are
Have You Seen It Yet?

Over the weekend we had the chance to head to the movies and catch a showing of Where The Wild Things Are. We've talked about it for almost a year in anticipation and were excited to finally see the...

Mix Up Bedtime Reading with Wordless Books

Are you burned out reading the same bedtime books to your child night after night after night? You both know the words by heart and, frankly, you've been phoning in your performance. One idea is t...

Practice Your Pumpkin Carving

Not only can you get a little practice in, but the kids that you don't want carving with a real knife can do some virtual carving here......

What to Do with Leftover Halloween Candy and Wrappers

Depending on how ambitious your trick or treaters are, you may wind up with a lot more candy than you care to see them eat. Here are a few ideas for other ways to use that candy, and even the wrapper...

Easy No-Carve Pumpkins
BHG.com

Who says everyone has to carve a pumpkin? You can start your own family tradition and do something a little different like this "junk 'o lantern" made from items around the house, and perfect if some...

The Indie Rock Coloring Book

"Her good looks could have sailed a ship; but her will alone could have sunk it." If you know what song that is, then the Indie Rock Coloring Book is right up your alley. ...

Swine Flu: What You Can Do at Home

As we head into flu season, we've been seeing the topic of swine flu come up on a lot of the local parent group message boards. This guide from Parenting provides a few guidelines for prevention in t...

Which Children's Book Should Become a Movie Next?

There's a flurry of children's book adaptations hitting the silver screen this fall: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Where the Wild Things Are. Not that we have the ear ...

After School Routines

Routines can make a home with children so much less chaotic. Now that school's in full swing again, having an after school routine for when they come home hungry and toss their backpack on the kitche...

Green Ideas: Smart Mama's Green Guide

If you're like us, you've felt overwhelmed at times by all of the recalls, chemicals, and other toxins lurking in the environment and even in your baby's toys or sippy cup. Well, Jennifer Taggart's b...

Photojojo: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas

It's a curious thing. It seems the more photos we take the fewer that actually see the light of day. While our short-term goal is to get a few hanging on the walls, we're inspired by Photojojo to ...

Kids and Cooking All Things Trader Joe's

Our household is definitely a TJ's household. For our son, a visit to Trader Joe's is like a visit to a toy store -- he has so much fun and loves the selection of fruits and cheeses and helping us wit...

Finger Puppet Book: In My Nest

We have fallen inlove with Lorena Siminovich's work over and over and over again; and it doesn't look like our love is going to die any time soon. Especially not when she's continuing to put out sw...

Henry's Words

Liz wrote in to share the gorgeous photo book she made for her son Henry. She took photos of some of his favorite places, people and objects, assembled them beautifully and had them printed as a bo...

Grow: An Environmentally Friendly Book

What have you done today to make the world a better place? Such a heavy question to ask a young child -- yet it's something so many of us have to begin asking ourselves, and our entire family, more o...

My Lunch Box: 50 Recipes To Take To School

Yesterday brought the release of a new book that's packed full of inspiration for moms and kids alike and aims at making the daily adventures of lunch packing exciting for all involved. It's filled...

Teaching Good Manners

Of course the best way to teach good manners and behavior is by example, but sometimes it helps to have fun stories, games and visual aids as supplements. We've rounded up some of our favorites and...

Healthy Home: Avoiding Fire Retardants

That's the topic of this month's Healthy Home Tips from the Environmental Working Group. Children are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of fire retardants......

Dorm Decor Book

Fall is just around the corner -- no really, it is -- and with fall comes back to school. Whether your child is off to college or if they simply have a small bedroom at home just needs a pick-me-up, t...

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