I’m always thrilled at the ingenuity people show in coming up with cheap alternatives to commercial products. Wise Bread’s instructions for making your own moon sand are a great example: a little fine sand, a little cornstarch, a little water, and Presto! Moon sand. I’ll be trying this.
If your kids haven’t played with moon sand […]

Readers of StepDadding might be interested in a post I wrote for lifehack.org as a kind of remedy for the rampant consumerism of “Black Friday”: Teaching Kids Charity and Clarity with Pre-Christmas Cleaning. The idea is one I got from my brother and sister-in-law (and they got it from who-knows-where) — go through your kids’ […]

Carrie Kirby of the blog Wise Bread shares some advice on responding to toy recalls with a little more rationality and less panic in How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Recall. The recent rash of toy recalls sucks, absolutely, but with a little knowledge and patience you can minimize your children’s risks […]