This back-to-school season certainly feels different. As parents, we are consumed by all the uncertainty, hypotheticals, and anxiety. Can we manage another few months of playing parent and teacher? Are we going to be able to facilitate online learning? If they go back into an ...read more
It’s amazing how quickly a baby develops a personality of his or her own. For the first few weeks, you have this immobile blob; but, before you know it, there’s this smiling, giggling, babbling tiny person rolling over and getting into mischief. It all happens so fast. You know ...read more
It's our sixth annual Ultimate Baby Shower and Giveaway event at Momtrends. Scroll through to see a few of our favorite must-haves, and enter to win one of everything below. I’m going to admit something that you’re not supposed to admit... Baby #3 was—gasp—not ...read more
3…2…1… We're blasting into the New Year with a little help from American Girl’s 2018 Girl of the Year, Luciana Vega! Luciana is the newest addition to American Girl’s line of inspiring characters meant to encourage young girls to think about who they want to be and how they want ...read more
Parenting is basically non-stop problem solving. From day one, as a new mom, you react to crying and fussing and whimpering and grunting with all sorts of creative tactics and simple strategies. You coo, you rock, you tap, you pace, and you try countless new things until ...read more
Nowadays, Kindergarten is serious biz. It's no longer the half day of play and finger-painting fun that I remember fondly from my childhood. It's intense, it's exhausting, and it's real work. Not to say it isn't still awesomely enjoyable and educational; it's just less about ...read more
This whole manic-morning business is no joke. Having two little ones to shuttle off to school has been, well, an adjustment to say the least. We're racing around, beating the clock, and perpetually on the move. Making breakfast for everyone, packing a lunch for my ...read more
I had a baby just a little over two years ago… and yet somehow it feels like it’s been forever—especially when I see all the latest and greatest baby gadgets, gizmos, and must-have gear. How have their been so many game-changing product launches in the 28 months since I was ...read more
Yesterday marked seven weeks until my family of four becomes five. Pretty soon the family won't fit into a New York taxi, we won't be a "girls only" club, and as my husband loves to say, we will go from man-to-man to zone defense. In thinking about all of these milestones and ...read more
To say mamahood has put a lot of things into perspective for me would be a gross understatement. I never understood all of my parents' warnings, worries, and cautions. I thought they were were being so overprotective! Now that I am a mama to three littles, my face is crimson as I ...read more
MUST-HAVE 1: Baby Björn Carrier One Infants like to be close to their moms. Like, really, really close. They don’t care that we have dishes to do, laundry to tackle, emails to answer, and toddlers to chase. They just want to cozy up to Mom’s warmth and feel her reassuring ...read more
