Back before going out for an evening required written instructions for a babysitter, I used to go out to see many live shows and sport lots of cool band T-shirts. Still have the T-shirts, but they don’t all fit like they used to. So I was excited to find some cool ideas about how to […]

I’m sitting cross-legged with a sitar in a makeshift percussion pit of kindergartners, and we’re having a musical conversation. Most of the children are banging their tambourines happily, like they’ve been granted permission to go mad and fingerpaint their bedroom walls. A few of them are experiencing some anxiety. They sit tentatively tapping the clattery […]

Any day now my husband and I are going to become Real Grown-Ups. Like the kind with actual jobs and mortgages and I don’t know, balanced meals and stuff. We’re on year AHEM of our one-income, student-loan-receiving, renting-instead-of-owning married life, and yearn for the day when we’ll walk straight past the generic mac-and-cheese and load […]

One of my favorite collections of children’s music is Putumayo Kids. The Putumayo label boasts an array of wonderful choices such as Latin Playground, Brazilian Playground, Asian Dreamland, and many more. Recently I listened to World Playground again and it is by far my favorite. Each of the 12 songs is from a different country, […]

Though The Old Spaghetti Factory appears fancy, the restaurant is actually very accommodating for children. The kids’ menu includes traditional pasta items, healthy pasta items such as wheat and gluten-free pasta and a grilled cheese sandwich for the kids who aren’t feeling any amore for pasta. The food is moderately priced, and every dinner comes […]

Thanks to the Internet, today’s parents have many more resources available to them than parents did 10-15 years ago, especially families that don’t fit the traditional mold. Billed as “an irreverent, inclusive, alternative parenting community,” the social network Offsprung provides forums for parents to discuss the unique problems of a diverse range of family types. […]