by Liz Gumbinner | Family Travel
Even though it’s not quite summer feeling everywhere just yet, it’s the official start of summer, which means picnics. Yay! We recently featured this post with our top picnic tips for parents with new babies, and number one: Use a waterproof blanket....
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips + Tricks
Each year we eagerly await the Environmental Working Group’s list of the safest sunscreens for kids (and grownups too) and we’re so glad to see the 2013 list is ready, just in time for the unofficial start of summer. Click over to the list of the safest...
by Kristen Chase | Kid Style
Our neighborhood pool opens at the end of this week (whoo!), so I’m busy tracking down stylish, swim trunks for my son that will last us all summer long. While last week we found some great swimsuits for girls, for those of you with a boy like me, here are some...
by Liz Gumbinner | Baby, Kid Style
If I fall on my sword for one thing every year, it’s that retailers need to provide us with more appropriately modest two-piece swimsuits for our daughters. Last year was a tough year, with triangle bikini tops making the rounds. This year looks more promising!...
by Liz Gumbinner | Kid Style
Every year, I look out for appropriately modest swimsuits for girls. Not to keep them bundled in tents, but to keep them cute and water-ready without having to succumb to ruching and triangle teeny-bikini tops for the nonexistent boobs. Well here’s a cool New...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing
This sunblock is so good, so easy, and so waterproof that my kids call it only “the good one.”Well, not my three-year-old. He calls it “dat good can dat you spray.”Translation: winning product. The brand is MD Solar Sciences, which bills itself...
by Melissa | Beauty + Cosmetics
We all know how important it is to protect our skin from the sun. But the confusing thing is that some sunscreens contain scary ingredients that may actually cancel out their sun protection benefits. I’m always on the lookout for a more natural, toxin-free SPF,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Kid Style
So of course as soon as we’re stocked up on swimsuits for my girls for the summer, we start seeing the very same ones on sale. So if you’re still looking for appropriate bikini swimsuits for little girls, we’ve got one more to add to our growing...
by Kristen Chase | Kid Style
Now that our neighborhood pool is open, my kids and I practically live there, Which that means I’m willing to spend more on good quality towels and swimsuits–a lesson I learned after going through far too many per kid last summer. So when I discovered...