Holidays
For Halloween, be a Do-Gooder!
UNICEF makes it easy and turn-key to turn your grim reaper or whiny princess into a do-gooder!
Activities
How to Entertain Your Kids for Free
Whether the economy is bad or not, there is no reason to have to break the bank to have fun with your kids. Check out these ideas for free fun with kids!
Holidays
Handmade Halloween Cards
You can use any holiday as a way to connect with a friend. Learn to re-purpose your kid’s artwork into greeting cards.
Young Child
How To Teach Your Kids To Manage Money
Mir Kamin of Woulda Coulda Shoulda shares her advice for teaching children to be fiscally responsible.
Baby
How To Get Your Child Into Modeling and Then Navigate The Child Modeling Industry, With Your Sanity Still Intact
You know your kid is beautiful inside and out. Now learn how baby can start paying for college.
Products & Services
Instant Crowd Pleaser: Serendipity’s Frozen Hot Chocolate Mix
It is part milk shake and part pudding and all around worth the gazillion calories. And, now you too can make it at home.
Products & Services
Blast from the Past Week: Pippi Longstocking
We may or may not have squealed when we discovered that Lauren Child had illustrated the classic, Pippi Longstocking. We’re rooting for a remake of the ill-synched 70’s foreign movie series.
Activities
San Francisco: 50 Things to do with your children before they grow up
There are a lot of reasons for paying all that astronomical rent to raise children in San Francisco. Here are fifty.
Activities
Five Ways To Keep In Touch While Your Kids is at Camp
Do you have kids away at camp? Are you missing them? We have some ideas for creative ways to keep in touch with them while they’re away.
Activities
The Twin Cities: 50 Things to Do With Your Kids Before They Grow Up
The Twin Cities, (aka Minneapolis-St. Paul) has year-round recreation and more theater than any other city than NYC, all of which are great activities for kids.
Activities
10 Great Activities For Your Block Party
If you’d like a chance to meet your neighbors and build a community on your block, a block party is a great idea. Here are 10 things to do at your block party.
Food & Home
Mickey Snow-Cone Machine
M-I-CCCC-K-E-WHY??? Because your kids will enjoy making snow cones with this adorable Mickey Mouse Snow Cone & Ice Shaver machine from Disney. But don’t worry, your kids won’t freeze their minnies off while making them.
Activities
Making Camping With Kids A Little Easier
We’ve found tons of great tips for making the experience of camping with the family as organized and as smooth as possible.
Food & Home
Gardening with Kids: Summer Planting
It’s not too late to start a summer garden with your kids. We point out the easy-to-grow flowers and vegetables you can grow in containers or in your garden.
Activities
50 Things To Do With Kids Around Detroit Before They Grow Up
Michigan is full of great museums, parks and amusement parks, but we kept our list to family destinations within an hours drive of the Detroit area.
Products & Services
Great Gifts For Teachers
We have a few ideas for End of Year gifts to let your child’s teacher know that they are appreciated for all of their hard work throughout the year.
Big Kid
Five Great Chapter Books to Read With Your Preteens
The hardest part of reading with preteens can be finding books you both enjoy. We’ve rounded up five of our favorites.
Uncategorized
Gardening Week: Sow and Grow Book
Our hero, Design Mom, turned us on to this lovely gardening book for children. The author has devised a calendar of activities for each month. Yay, the planning is done for us!
Uncategorized
Gardening Week: Mini Lavender Garden
Everything needed to grow lavender right in the pail. It’s a perfect child’s birthday gift, or Mother’s Day gift for grandma from a young child.
Crafts
Great Handmade Gifts For Mother’s Day
We have come up with five reasonably easy and still lovely gifts you can help your kid make for their mother.