They grow up so fast. Don’t take bad pictures.

by Christina Refford | Books for Adults

Forget the baby monitor or motorized swing: what I really could have used when my kids were little was photographer and dad Nick Kelsh’s entertaining and smart new DVD, How to Photograph Your Baby, a companion to the classic book by the same name. If you have...

Baby’s first cookbook

by Mir | Food + Recipes

I confess; I made my own baby food. But just so we’re clear, I was less a domestic goddess and more a garden-variety control freak. I spent late nights cooking and chopping and freezing, and honestly, I took no joy in it whatsoever. Boring.But that’s only...

Want your kids to love reading? You need to love reading to them.

by Rita | Books for Adults

Evidently reading to your kids is more than just reading to your kids. And seriously pedigreed educational consultant Diane W. Frankenstein explores her concept of “conversational reading” in her excellent resource, Reading Together: Everything You Need to...

What your best girlfriend would say, if she was a pediatrician

by Mir | Books for Adults

To say that I was a neurotic mess with my first baby would be an understatement; every sniffle and bruise had me wondering if I’d broken her. By the second baby, I figured I was an old hand . . . except that he was convinced he could fly and often howled for...

It’s Not Me, It’s You. Or wait, maybe it is me. A little.

by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults

We’re already fans of the clever, caustic writing of author and fellow parenting blogger Stephanie Wilder-Taylor, so I figured I could give her newest book, It’s Not Me, It’s You, a good skim and craft a review. As it turns out, as each short chapter...

You say it’s your Birth Day

by Julie | Books for Adults

When I was pregnant for the first time, I developed an unhealthy affinity for those birth documentaries that had previously repelled me.  Something about growing a baby myself made me want to click over and immerse myself in the gory details.A new book from...

Teacher gifts: Better than buying the teacher a pony

by Mir | Books for Adults

Every year I tell my children’s teachers thank you, and every year it feels inadequate. Often when I write notes to go with various teacher gifts, I write, You totally deserve a pony, but I thought this would make less of a mess.Thank goodness I now have a...

Cartoons for the thinking mama

by Rita | Books for Adults

When I was in high school, an artist friend of mine and I wrote a graphic novel during biology class featuring the adventures of our teacher’s prominent nose, thus beginning my love affair with random and edgy hilarity. If you adore the absurd, you are going to...

Cooking for kids just got 150 recipes easier

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

Recently, my Michael Pollan-obsessed sigOth and I have had some conversations about stepping up our meal preparation game for the kids. So I’m pleased to have discovered two new cookbooks that seem primed to help us find some options that lie somewhere between...

Funky lunch – that’s a good thing

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

I do not have six million free hours in my day but if I did, I just might consider turning my kids’ sandwich into a giraffe. Or a caterpillar. Or Sponge Bob. Just because I could. And if I were to do that kind of a thing, I would have to hit the website Funky...