Your Life
Sandy Was Here
The recovery and rebuild post-Sandy will be a long one. Please don’t forget NYC.
Your Life
#GivingTuesday: Hurricane Sandy Aid Edition
This #GivingTuesday focuses on how to help citizens and businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy. Really, most of the resources I have listed are ones that can be used by you to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy all along the Eastern Coast.
Health & Safety
#GivingTuesday: Healthy Child Healthy World
Learn more about Healthy Child Healthy World, a leading environmental non-profit organization, and how to support them during #GivingTuesday.
Health & Safety
#GivingTuesday: Share Our Strength
As #GivingTuesday approaches, learn about Share Our Strength which is working to end childhood hunger in America.
Your Life
#GivingTuesday: Soledad O’Brien & Brad Raymond Foundation
As #GivingTuesday approaches, learn about the Soledad O’Brien & Brad Raymond Foundation which helps young women overcome barriers and reach their highest educational potential.
Food & Home
Alpha Mom Must List: Shop at ALDI
Have you heard of ALDI? They’re a national supermarket that sells the most popular private-label grocery items at insanely good prices, we’re talking like a 45%-50% discount to traditional supermarkets. And, you don’t need to buy their products in bulk to enjoy the savings, which living in an apartment in NYC, where kitchens are galley-sized, that’s super important.
Baby
Alpha Mom Must List: Sh*tty Mom Book
Chelsea Handler of the future is pissed. When she sits down to write her parenting book, she’ll realize the book she wants to write has already been written.
Parenting
Alpha Mom Must List: Read “Happier at Home”
In Happier at Home, Gretchen Rubin’s follow-up to the best-selling The Happiness Project, I find more inspiration for projects that put a smile on my face.
Baby
Comments Count! One Reader’s Has Already Saved Lives.
Leave a comment to give a kid a shot at life. I’m participating in a fundraising effort to provide vaccines to children in developing nations.
Baby
Wendy Bellissimo Returns with a new Baby & Kids Collection
The Wendy Bellissimo is back at the drawing board. Check out her amazing collection for babies and kids.
Products & Services
Must See: Helen Levitt’s Photography
Helen Levitt’s photographs capture the lives of NYC’s neighborhood children from the 1930s through the 1980, a time in history when children actually played outside on the streets.
Activities
Must Watch: First Position
Jete over to the theater with your kids. This movie will make your spirits soar.
Holidays
iProud of You, Graduate
Just print, cut and fill-in the congratulations box in this iPhone-inspired graduation card printable. Oh, yeah it’s free.
Young Child
Must Watch: Olive Us Family Video Series
Design Mom’s new family video series Olive Us, featuring her six children, is an absolute delight. Not only is it instructional, but you see the kids being kind to each other. Our children need to see more of that in this world.
Baby
My Favorite Children’s Books for Young Ones
It’s no secret that my favorite baby gift is a bundle of my favorite children’s books. Here are some (or seventy) of my favorite books for babies and young children.
Big Kid
How I Get My Reluctant Son to Read Books
I wasn’t an eager reader at 9 years old and neither is my son right now. So, here’s what I do.
Young Child
Free Bookmarks (Printables) to celebrate D.E.A.R Day
Here are some free bookmarks for you and your family to use. It’s a gift from us to you to celebrate Drop Everything And Read Day.
Young Child
7 Mnemonics Every Parent Should Know
I like to work smart and sometimes we need some techniques to help us learn, or just remember so we can look smarter than our fifth grader. Here’s a list of the mnemonics that I think every parent should know.
Holidays
St. Patrick’s Day Stickers & Tags
Free St. Patrick’s Day stickers and tag printables. Just print, cut and stick!
Baby
Must List: Baby Literature Board Books
This new series of board books will have you all excited even if you weren’t an English Lit major.