The best book on feeding, hands down, is Ellyn Satter's Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense. It's not a recipe book but rather a best-odds approach to eating & kids. I can't say enoug...

We moved to our area to be closer to my dh's work--his commute is about 5 minutes now. We are on the Peninsula. But we had a choice when we moved closer to be on a bigger lot, more spread out or ...

My oldest has loved orange since he was 2--he's almost 6 now. When we moved into our new home I let him look over the Benjamin Moore Affinity fan deck and he landed on buttered yam--a deep orange ...

I think, as with much in life, there should be some balance in this. I've been in homes that have been completely given over to the children & their stuff--whole rooms cordoned off with safety gad...

We live in the Bay Area and pay $15 an hour. I always include a meal if the kids are eating too and I round up--like a tip. If we say we'll be back at 10 and come back early, I'll pay the full am...

We use a lot of painters tape. It's great for making race tracks, balance beams, or just letting the kids have a roll to tape around. It comes up so easily w/o marks. We also have "d...

Room and Board has some nice chairs. There is one that looks like a traditional toddler chair in nice colors: h...

This seems to be very common in our circle. We adopted, so I didn't receive a gift for "pushing"--but the process of adoption required a lot of work, most of which I tackled. For the birth & adop...

The most high tech thing our 5 y.o. son has is a Leapster which we got to use for car drives. He probably hasn't played with it in 6 months. He's shown very little interest in any tech related to...

It's a nightmare. We inherited one at our old house. They are very nice looking, but ours seemed to break down constantly. One of the repairmen told me they are great for child-free couples who ...

I've got two rambunctious little ones--trips to the grocery store with either or both of them are not always easy. But grocery shopping has so many upsides with kids--hard as it is it seems a sham...

I don't have a specific color in mind, but I would suggest they check out Benjamin Moore's Affinity color palette in the Aura formulation. We mainly used those when we painted our home--the colors...

We just moved into a new home with dark hardwood floors. I asked the man who did them what he uses for wood floors. He said above all to avoid the Murphy's Oil products--they build up over time a...

I have noticed that each of my kids seems to have an inherent palate and they are quite distinct. We adopted so there's no reason they would necessarily reflect our tastes. And they weren't breas...

This would have been helpful with my first child, as I always warmed his bottles. But I figured out something easier with my second--I just started giving her room temp bottles from day one (to th...

I'm a full-time SAHM of two with a little bit of babysitting every week (6 hours, not including regular date nights)--and an occasional day off when my parents come to spend the day with the kids.

I think it is too early--but I do know that the Stanford branch of PBKids is one of their style stores where they photograph displays before they go into other stores--ditto the PB store in Burling...

Try Walnut Wallpaper in L.A. http://www.walnutwallpaper.com/ They are very nice and have some really cool wallpaper.