How do you pick gifts for your the kids of your ONbeat parent friends?
Wondering what to get the kids of your onbeat mom and dad friends? Here’s a few potential ideas!
Achieving a love-filled homebirth
Amy and her partner, Mary, planned a homebirth with their first son, but circumstances didn’t work in their favor. Happily for them, their second son’s birth took place in their home.
A year of sleeping dangerously
We started tracking Tavi’s sleep the day after he was born, using a tool called Trixie Tracker. I knew I couldn’t control Tavi’s newborn sleep habits, but somehow keeping track of the awfulness was going to help me.
This 3-year-old knows more about gender than you do
Unlike many of us adults who stumble around trying to read cues from other people, stressing over using the wrong words, kids learn to just ask: “Should I use boy words, girl words, or something else to describe you?”
Make mealtimes fun with Crazy Plates
Need some help with creative ways to get your kids to eat at mealtime? Lalah’s “crazy plates” concept might just be up your alley!
Child’s Play lets you donate video games and films to kids
Child’s Play is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 60 hospitals worldwide.
Santa Claus and age-appropriate truths
Jessica and her husband don’t plan on perpetuating the belief in Santa Claus (or the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny, for that matter) in their kids, and she’s looking to hear from other offbeat parents who haven’t told their kids the tale of St. Nick.
An ode to skinny jeans
Kayden, my step-son, seems to be following in the same footsteps as myself and his father. He’s relatively unfazed by the current wave of en vogue accoutrements for middle school boys. Skinny jeans, however, were just too powerful a force to overcome. He needed to have skinny jeans.