The Parents Blog

Have you ever wondered how many people that were born around your time, share your name? Did you know that in the 1900s, Alice was not just a name for girls? Check out the Baby Name Voyager on iVillage. A very slick, interactive baby name viewer that tracks the names of babies born in the United States, as reported by the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Starfall.com is a fantastic (and free!) website designed to help children learn to read. It’s primarily for first graders but I’ve found the site is appropriate and interesting for toddlers to children in third grade. Starfall.com is easy to navigate, even for children. It includes stories, games, songs, activities and movies all designed to teach children the essential skills necessary for reading. The four sections (ABC’s, Learn to Read, It’s Fun to Read, and I’m Reading) increase in difficulty beginning with letter names and sounds, then how to blend sounds and decode words and eventually on to fun stories at independent reading levels.

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By David L Hoffman

There are literally hundreds of different car seats sold in the US market today. Even though all the eats sold in the US meet the safety requirement in a crash test, it is still a good idea to buy a car seat with a better set of safety features.

We will help you go through 5 of the infant seat features that are important to your baby’s safety.

1. 5-Point Harness

There are two kinds of infant seats in the market: 3-point harness and 5-point harness. The 5-point harness usually straps the baby in better, and provide better protection against ejection when used properly.

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Here’s an item we could not live without: The Snug Tuck Pillow. We first discovered it when we were searching for bed rail options when it was time to transition our oldest from the crib. He was a roller and loved sleeping snuggled up against the bumper of his crib. We were worried he would either roll himself out of bed or wake himself up when he rolled into the hard bed railings.

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Threadless Kids has cool baby and kids t-shirts with unique designs that are actually submitted by members of the Threadless community. Visitors to the site vote on the t-shirt designs and the highest rated are added to the catalog. Threadless sells most of the same designs in teen and adult sizes too. Keep the kids in style, check out Threadless Kids.