Babble

"Why aren't you in school?" the third stranger in a week asked my daughter today. My daughter is only three, and though it's true that we home school her, she is still two years shy of the compulsory school age. But I have stopped being surprised by the question, because the playgrounds...

Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her daughter Grace were among the stars that attended a red carpet event in Times Square sponsored by Toys "R" Us. According to the press release the "celebrities and their families arrived in Volkswagen's all new 7-passenger Routan minivan; the first minivan...

Kelly Rutherford and her son Hermes were among the stars that attended a red carpet event in Times Square sponsored by Toys "R" Us. According to the press release the "celebrities and their families arrived in Volkswagen's all new 7-passenger Routan minivan; the first minivan in America...

The conversations I dread most, the questions I don't want to ask, the things I'm afraid of saying - I'm reminded time and again that those are the things that I should be saying, the conversations I should be having. You guys were right. Even as I wrote about the nasty comment that I overheard...

All daycares are not alike. Some corral the kids like lost puppies at the SPCA, others have a day to day agenda not unlike an academically driven prep school. But how does the American daycare differ from others around the globe? Writer Yumiko Ono shared her daughter’s daycare experience in Tokyo, Japan...

We've all been there. You're in the grocery store, or doctor's office, or a restaurant and you need a five minute distraction for your toddler. And if you're a dad or mom on-the-go who doesn't keep a spare stuffed animal in their pocket, you're usually relegated to whatever you...

An article in the New York Times Style section discussed a group of men who got together for breakfast after dropping their kids off at school. The men are Manhattan-based primary caregivers, and one of them describes their jaunts as "like 'Sex and the City' with coffee instead of cosmos...

Miss Violet attended preschool today in Los Angeles. Mommy and Daddy were both on hand. See? Here's Jennifer Garner trying to remember is she was supposed to bring snack today: And here's Dad again, after the drop. His name is Ben: Related Posts: Jennifer Garner and Violet Start Life of Crime...

Cincinnati kids who are in day care, which is half of kids ages 3-6, face obstacles when it comes to playing outside. It's not because of the area's dicey weather or a perceived lack of green space. The barriers that were cited by child care workers in the study are a bit less intuitive. One...

I'm this close to moving to Paris simply so that I can go to designer Jean Touitou's preschool. Why? Three words: Cotton-cashmere nap blankies. Started by Touitou and his wife Judith as a response to the rigid French school system, the Ateliers de la Petite Enfance (A.P.E.) is filled with both...