The waste-free lunch kit with something for everyone
The day I realized how many plastic baggies I was using in my kids’ lunches each week was the day I began trying every sort of reusable container and wrap out there. Nowadays the kids take a cobbled-together assortment of reusables in their lunch bags, but the...
In the pink
There aren’t too many pink posters I’d hang in my daughters’ post-feminist non-pink bedroom, but artist and graphic designer Robin Rosenthal’s counting bird poster would easily make the cut. When we first found her original counting birds...
Learning disguised as catchy pop songs, cool characters, and charming illustrations.
We don’t own a lot of kids’ DVDs in my house, primarily since it’s so hard to know if we will get our money’s worth or they will be watched twice before my daughter gets bored and just wants to throw the disk around. But one completely...
Favorite baby carrier? Reader Q&A
I emailed a few months ago asking what your favorite baby carrier was and your reply was The Rockin Baby Sling, which I ordered and love. I am now looking for an Ergo/Beco type carrier. Do you prefer one over the other or is there another brand you love?...
Let them wheat-free eat cake
Since giving up wheat, there are a few foods I no longer miss, and others I dream about regularly. One of the items I’ve fantasize about binging on is chocolate chip cookies. I’d just not found a suitable replacement without the gluten.So I was excited to...
Diaper bags that look like nothing of the sort. Which seems to be the point these days.
It’s hard to believe a few short years ago, a diaper bag looked like (gasp) a diaper bag. Today, diaper bags are allowed to look like clutches, like hobo bags, like totes – pretty much anything besides something actually designed to help you manage the...
Why settle for a mere octopus, when you can make a Socktopus
I just do not have that kind of creativity it would entail to look at a traditional sock monkey and think, Hmm, I bet I could improve on that. But that’s what CMP fave Clarity Miller did when she turned one into a Socktopus. It’s virtually the same, only...
Snug as a pea in a pod. Or at least in a baby sleep sack.
While I can’t say that sleep sacks miraculously kept my kids from waking up, they at least kept me from needlessly running to their cribs to cover them up or untangle them from their web of blankets. It’s a great practical gift for new moms, but it seems...
World’s best pillow fight pillows (sound effects included)
For years, I dreamt about a playroom — a place (that wasn’t my living room) where my boys could make a mess with their superhero toys and have pillow fights and stand on the furniture without making me insane. Now that we have a playroom, I’m...Answer Our Question of the Day: It’s Fun!
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