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Category: Kids

Quick and Easy Weeknight Dinner: Semi-homemade Pizza

Here is one of my favorite go-to meals that I can pull together without a lot of effort: semi-homemade pizza! This is a great dinner that kids love to help make, too. I use a packaged pizza dough, like Boboli or any other brand, though my girlfriend swears that she whips up pizza dough in […]

Colic Cure: Clove Tea

My good friend Stephanie’s two-month old baby boy has some fierce gas going on, poor child. Because Stephanie’s older son has a number of severe food allergies, she is nursing exclusively and herself is on a highly restricted diet: no wheat, dairy, soy, nuts, seafood… and maybe more that I’m forgetting. Yet the baby still […]

William Tell Mom

If you haven’t heard this riff about what a mom says in the course of 24 hours, condensed to 2:55 min, listen carefully because it’s hysterical. [coolplayer] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM[/coolplayer]

Raspberry Fruit Butter

My sister has twice now sent me little care packages from the little Long Island town where she lives. They are always full of scrumptious goodies that she finds in local shops. One that has become a favorite is Clearbrook Farms Rasberry Fruit Butter. I should probably come clean and admit that I am not […]

Germ Proof Your Kids

I went to hear Dr. Harley Rotbart speak the other night about his new book, Germ Proof Your Kids: the Complete Guide to Protecting (without Overprotecting) Your Family from Infections. As a internationally known pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, I was hoping he could shed some light […]