Training parents about all things preschool and kids aged 18 months–5 years
If your child has food allergies events like Halloween and trick-or-treating can be scarier than the neighborhood haunted house. Sorting through candy favorites has become at least a chore or at most fraught with life-threatening danger. If you’re looking to be sensitive to your friends and neighbors or keeping your own home allergy free for the holiday…
Nothing says fall quite like the apple—images of teachers’ desks, fall trees, apple crafts, and lunch sack offerings in red, green, and in-between. The season of the apple is upon us. Encourage your child to help you in the kitchen and you have an instant teachable moment. We’ve picked out some great apple recipes to make…
We pulled together a great list of the best cookbooks, kitchen tools and recipes for kids because we love cooking with children. When you cook with your kids you’re not only getting to spend precious moments with them, but you’re also teaching them valuable life skills that can be applied anywhere. We took all of the…
Are you making dinner tonight? Then do it with your kids. If you teach your kids to cook now it will make them better people later. Cooking with your kids is an all purpose activity that will teach them valuable life skills in and out of the kitchen. Creating Healthy Habits Childhood obesity is a serious…
We’re all still thinking about those healthy eating resolutions come February, even if we’ve slacked a bit in the actually doing it part, and greens – like collards, turnips, spinach, and kale – are some of the best foods you can eat for health. They’re full of vitamins, low calorie, good for digestion, and you…
Picky eaters and preschoolers are basically the same thing in my book. And unless you’re one of those lucky parents who’ve managed to raise a magical being with an adventurous palate, you’ll feel my pain when it comes to figuring out how to feed said cracker-muncher and green-bean-refuser. Throw a big family meal like Thanksgiving…
ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS: PLEASE STEP AWAY FROM THE WEIRD PEANUT BUTTER TOFFEE THINGS WRAPPED IN ORANGE AND BLACK. THE TRICK-OR-TREATERS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DON’T WANT ANY! (Although, if you actually find those things somewhere, you should buy them in bulk. They’ll probably stay “good” for years and your friends who were kids in the 70s…
