The folks at Wateroos recently sent me some samples of their products to review. When I first read their pitch, I didn’t even respond to the email because I thought “I have stainless steel sippy cups that I can fill with my own water. No chemicals. No waste. No problem.” When they sent a follow [...]

I’ve been previewing the upcoming series Word World and I must tell you that I’ve finally found a show on TV (well, soon to be on TV anyway) that I’d actually let my kids watch. It’s an incredibly innovative addition to the preschoolers TV lineup that’s coming to PBS Kids in the fall of this [...]

My husband says that I’m “vocabularious” so I suppose it’s only natural I would gravitate towards SATees, which are these terribly clever shirts (and onesies) for babies and children with very sophisticated adjectives printed on them. The idea is that you pick an adjective that describes YOUR child so of course, I had no choice [...]

My kids typically have 2 or 3 pairs of shoes at any given time. Since they grow out of them so quickly, we don’t like to buy them more than that, even if they are inexpensive. Typically we will take a trip to the Stride Rite outlet store a couple of times a year and [...]

Saw a commercial for this new fruit-plus-vegetable juice and figured it might be a good buy for our vegetable-hating son. But would he drink it? Am I the lamest mother ever for trying to sneak in grape-flavored carrots? Who cares!? He liked it! We tried the grape flavor. Tasted just like strong purple grape juice [...]

A few weeks ago we purchased a Spiderman 3 Web Slinger Water Slide for our son at Meijer. We were out of town at the time and do not have that store anywhere close to us, making a regrettable purchase also not returnable. We had issues with this product from Toy Quest from the beginning. [...]

The Good Night Our World series of board books is a great idea in principle: a series of books that introduces little people to various places in our world. Each book proceeds from “Good Morning” to “Good Night” and visits the city or place the book is about through all four seasons. There are more [...]

One of the things I struggle with fairly regularly is finding my 7 year old daughter clothes that don’t make her look like a “prostitot.” While there are an abundance of low-slung pants and crop tops with spaghetti straps to get my jaw outta whack, nothing gets me grinding my teeth faster than the bathing [...]

If you’re frugal cheap looking to save some money on eating out with your family, then I have some ideas for you. Recently, I stumbled across some information on special kid’s nights at local restaurants and wondered if there was a site that kept track of those things across America. There is and they do! [...]

Getting a young child to properly wash their hands is difficult, so when a friend recommended we try SquidSoap I quickly snatched up this new product. It was attractive, fun and interactive, which is everything needed to keep our son’s attention. My hope was that he’d even remember to wash his hands after using the [...]

With four kids under eight, I’m always on the lookout for good bedtime stories that hold the interest of all my kids, and I try to have a lot of them, because like all parents of preschoolers I get sick of reading the same books over and over and over again. Gossie and Gossie and [...]

Pan? Hand it to me so I can bash the crap out of this thing. After reading on several websites about how wonderful the Playskool Ball Popper is, “Santa” decided to buy it for my son for Christmas. Unfortunately, it’s quite possibly the worst toy we own, for a couple of reasons. 1. It has [...]

These days it’s difficult to find a child’s toy that isn’t made of plastic. The number one problem is that plastic isn’t durable. As rough as kids are on things, it doesn’t take long to break even the best quality toys. HaPe International, of Switzerland, designed a game called Pandabo for children ages 4+. Pandabo [...]

My three year old got this doll for her recent birthday, and it is far and away my favorite present she received, and possibly hers, too. Dress Up Adventure Dora is a large doll, about 15” tall. She comes in denim shorts and a cute pink top, with a yellow flower watch and her ever [...]

I tend to gravitate toward award winning books (well, okay, let’s be honest, I will read anything I can get my hands on: cereal boxes, shampoo bottles). So when I saw that Rules, by Cynthia Lord, earned the Newberry Award, I happily added it to my Amazon cart to reach $25 so I could have [...]