Advice
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 ...
Call for submissions: A Three-Year Olds’ Guide to Everywhere Fun
Does your preschool-aged kid have strong opinions about popular family-friendly Bay Area destinations? If so, we want to include them in our upcoming series, A ...
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 ...
Where do you take guests from out-of-town?
To show off the East Bay to your friends from back home, where do you go? When I lived in San Francisco, I always drove ...
Kids giving back: Project Night Night
Have you heard about Project Night Night? If you’re looking for a way to give back to others with your children this holiday season, this might be ...
Talking about the news with kids
Thanks to Madeleine Rogin for offering to share her perspective on talking to kids about current events. She is a mother, a schoolteacher, and a ...
Back-to-school checklist
Back-to-school prep in the East Bay: hair, shoes, backpack, lunchbox, clothes, what else do you need?
