If you are a mom of a little one, you know that the Internet is full of mom-related networks and sites.
The ones I knew about from 10 years ago or so were bulletin boards for moms who were pregnant about the same time. Some of the newer parenting sites are geographic based. Much of the [...]

Babble.com has this post – The Family That Frets Together: How the recession is stressing out our kids.
A snippet:
It’s tempting to dismiss the suffering of children who are pretty wealthy compared to those whose parents were barely surviving on minimum wage and then get laid off. But when wealthy children, even middle class children, have [...]

I have one simple tip for shopping with young children:
Don’t do it.
I’m speaking from experience. I was divorced / single mom from the time my daughter was a year old until she was almost 5. Yes, that’s the prime age for temper tantrums in the shopping cart. Yes, I was working full-time and had no [...]

My daughter did believe in Santa Claus when she was growing up.
I don’t remember at what point she stopped believing in Santa. I do remember that it was a relatively untraumatic situation as compared to what some other families experience.
What did we do right?
I can tell you it wasn’t planned, but that’s just what happened.
My [...]

My co-worker Michelle Swartz has an article for the Oct. 2009 issue of Monroe County Parent called “Unlimited childcare – a newly formed group offers free babysitting in southeast Michigan.”
A snippet:
Instead of money, the network uses a point system to exchange and track the times a person provides babysitting or uses a babysitter. Every 15 [...]

Seasonal flu shot clinics are fairly easy to find for adults. A lot of pharmacies  hosts either special days or standing walk-in times for flu shots, and some workplaces (including mine) set up vaccination clinics for their staff.
But it can be a little bit complicated to arrange for such thing for one’s child, as I [...]

The Women Infants Children program has been around since the mid-1970s. Although I was never a client, I have known some working families who were.
WIC is an income-based program, but more specifically, it is aimed at a certain demographic: “low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, women who recently had a baby, infants and children up to [...]

I did a post earlier this year about the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s new resale rules as to how they apply to second-hand stores.
Now the buzz is: What does this mean for garage sale sellers and buyers, especially when it comes to kids’ stuff?
While I don’t have the answers, I can point you to the [...]

This post is for my readers in Monroe County, Mich.
A child booster seat distribution event will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 23 at the Monroe Department of Public Services building, 222 Jones Ave., Monroe, Mich.
Booster seats will be given free of charge to residents of Monroe County, Mich., who attend this [...]

Sara Noel from Frugal Village, took on this topic for her newspaper column Sunday: 8 things your baby doesn’t need.
A snippet:
One reader, Karen in Kansas, shares: “I recently went shopping for a baby gift, and I couldn’t believe all the stuff we did without. Mostly because it wasn’t available. Here are some words of wisdom [...]