Loving the breakfast cookie trend – take a bite of this, this, and this - kids think they’re getting something decadent for breakfast and you exert nothing more than a freezer-to-microwave maneuver.  Carnival Cookies, they’re called and are the brilliant creation from natural food cookbook author, Heidi Swanson.  The thing about Heidi, [...]

Anyone with more than one child knows that what you do for one kid you must in some way do for the other.

We had another cause for celebration in our house so I didn’t have to stretch to keep our child-honoring in balance. Last month we gave a nod to [...]

Parents have been debating Battle Hymn’s assertion that in order to raise highly achieving kids, like many Chinese-Americans, we need to brow beat them (the kids, not the Chinese-Americans) into working hard and prevent them from participating in anything social or extracurricular unless it’s learning to play piano or violin. [...]

If you’re a food enthusiast like me and even if you’re not but you have been anywhere in the lifestyle news spectrum lately – like the second hour of the Today Show – you most likely have heard the lectures on family dining including that from a new book The [...]