The thing is, the Fisher-Price swing we were given as a gift broke all of Nivi’s rules: it made noise, was deeply plastic and took up a lot of space. Whereas...
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Free-Range Parenting?
Though we find ourselves irritated by the "we turned out okay" refrain from parents who use their mere survival as a means to justifying all manner of 70s-style...
Figuring it Out
How to Make a Meat Pie, and Other Tales of the Ambitious Mother. Making a meat pie for your infant requires love, patience and every pot you own, but yields unexpected...
Inspector Mom Dental Sealants for Kids?
On a recent routine dental checkup, my daughter's dentist suggested we do sealants. As a master researcher of all things health-related, I am embarrassed to admit...
Hindsight
You should know from the start that I never was an instinctual mother. I have spent more than 25 years in what Grace Paley called “the mommy trades”, but I didn’t...
Jenny’s Recycling Bin
Jenny Rosenstrach's family dinner blog, Dinner a Love Story, is among our favorite bookmarks. If somehow you haven't checked it out yet, you have to. Right now....
Trends We Like Smart Supermarkets
There's a chain of great department stores in Switzerland called Globus, which has grocery and wine stores on the lower level. My favorite items are their to-go...
On the Pile
Unless you have been living in a hermitage for the past year, there's a good chance that you've read Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl...
Recognize This? From Spousonomics
You might have already heard about Spousonomics, the genius new book about relationships by Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson. Here's a snippet from their blog,...
Kinderconundrum
A couple of years ago, my wife and I were in the classic push-or-hold kindergarten dilemma with regard to our elder son, who wouldn’t be five till November. First...
Letter from the Editors
To understand Momfilter, we have to go back to a typical day at Cookie, the parenting magazine that we founded in 2004 and that folded in 2009. The inspiration...
Trends We Like Walmart Goes Local
Of course we would all love to be eating local, sustainable, and organic food. To do this all year, however, requires that you live in a sunny state or have deep...
