News — Children

s. As a kid, it was fascinating to see how my choices could affect the story, and I always had about seven pages bookmarked to backtrack and try again. You might think this was a product of the times, but even now that kids have access to an abundance of video games and other interactive stories, these books haven’t seemed to have lost their appeal. When I worked in a used bookstore, we couldn’t keep anything related to pick-a-path books in stock, including the Fighting Fantasy books. They seem to hold onto that magic even now. Oddly, though, pick-a-path books...

My Latest Snag: The Old Sippy Cup Game. We were a little late in weaning micro off the bottle for milk. He’s been drinking water out of straw/sippy cups for a long time, but we were deeply ingrained in the milk-in-a-bottle habit. With mini, we went cold turkey to sippy cups around 15 months (maybe earlier, I can’t quite remember), but with micro, I tried a few times — maybe once a month for several months in a row — and he would wail for his bottle and I would cave. It was always vaguely stressful to me, because he...

It’s not really surprising then that a baby stroller is one of the first things written on a soon-to-be parent’s checklist. Strollers certainly make life easier when you’re going around running errands or meeting up with friends and family. There are even strollers you can take with you jogging. Strollers can also handle carrying all of those items you need when going out of the house with your baby – change of clothes, diapers, milk, wipes, and whatever else you think the baby needs. Since we’ve already established that a stroller is in order for any new parent, how does...