Advice
Scavenger hunt for kids visiting Oakland Museum
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is a pretty great destination. It’s on my top five for outings with visiting grandparents. It’s got modern art, ...
Year-end thanks to all who sponsored {510} Families in 2014
We are so grateful to all of the local businesses who partnered with us this year, sponsoring events, advertising in our emails, in our sidebars, ...
How do you encourage your children to give back?
Here are four ideas for including your kids in holiday giving. I'd love to hear yours in the comments!
Tech Tuesday: Common Sense Media for Bay Area parents
Our family’s screen time rules are fluid with a side order of strict. My sons are allowed about 30 minutes to watch shows each evening ...
Five steps to babyproof a dog
My friend Laurie in Oakland is working with dog trainer Michael Wombacher, author of Good Dog, Happy Baby, to improve her dog's behavior ...
We love Everyday Bento!
Local author and blogger, Wendy Copley, wrote and photographed my children’s current favorite book: Everyday Bento: 50 Cute and Yummy Lunches To Go. My sons ...
Tips for raising a reader with CommonSense Media
Two of my children are pretty avid readers so I want to share a few of the things we are doing (right, wrong, and otherwise) ...
Plan ahead for Summer Fun
What’s great about Summer is that some days, you can just roll out of bed slip on a swim suit and play til your mom ...
Lyft and Uber: good resources for one-car families
Though Uber has been driving tech-savvy folks around San Francisco, New York and Boston for a while now, I just tried it myself last month ...
Share your tips with our readers!
Do you have a favorite class, restaurant, or East Bay destination? Did you take a roadtrip with your children that was so great you can’t ...
