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Style+Beauty
Girls' Hair Accessories Long gone are the days of scrunchies and bobby pins. Today's styles scream fun and functional.
Food+Parties
This Week for Dinner To ease your cooking burden, we compiled a shopping list for five recipes using common ingredients and lots of pantry staples, so you can turn out delicious entrees in 30 minutes or less (we promise).
Advice From A Chef: Dana Slatkin This cookbook author knows the recipe for laid-back beach entertaining and family dining.
Party Like it's 1969 An 8-year-old resident of Woodstock, NY, throws a birthday celebration with friends, wildflowers, and plenty of tie-dyeing. Get the recipes and playlist to make your own party groovy.
Custom Online Party Invitations We've scoured the Internet to find the top five birthday-party-invitation resources for your kid's next soiree.
Home Front
Mompreneurs Discover how three moms are living the dream of raising their kids while running their own businesses.
Olympic Moms After you have a baby, just getting back into your skinny jeans can seem like a gold-medal-worthy feat. But for these three Olympians, motherhood was the impetus for them to attain their goals and appreciate success in a whole new way at the Beijing Games.
Mommy Bloggers Are blogging moms writing an Internet love letter to their kids, or just violating their children's privacy?
Travel
Carry-on Bag Checklist It's not just what you bring, it's how you bring it.
Brain+Body
Taming Your Toddler For those times when your kid goes from zero to possessed in 60 seconds—and you feel like you're yelling at 160 decibels—a top psychologist offers some soothing (and surprising) advice.
Gear+Shopping
Gift Guides Find something special for everyone you know.
Lunchbox/Backpack Pairs With one of these backpack-and-lunch-box pairings, your kid will be the envy of the school yard.
From the Magazine
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Style+Beauty
Pretty Easy Get oriented for fall with rich hues, tasteful metallic accents, and an all-around cool, polished look.
Multitasking Beauty If you're expected to do (at least) two things at once, why would you expect any less from your beauty products? Here are 10 of the best, most multitasking products out there.
Stylish Looks for Hitting the Books Click through for mind-blowing outfits that'll make even your reluctant little learner ecstatic to go back to school.
Travel
Fantasy Islands Experience the labyrinthine wonder of Venice with your kids by following the advice of an American expat and mom.
Route 66 Road Trip To turn your minivan into a time machine, all you need is a few days on historic Route 66. The kids will get to see how family trips—and America—used to be. And you'll all have a vacation that's impossible to forget.
Food
Acquiring Taste: Cheese Four under-30-minute recipes that may just stretch your family's cheese repertoire beyond string.
Gear+Shopping
New Parent Gadgets Why should choosing the right gadget to document your offspring require a gestation period all its own? Our top still and video cameras for any budget.
Home Front
More or Less Four women explain how they chose—consciously and not—the number of children they have.
Mother of Invention: Suzanne Goin The celebrated chef applies some tricks of her trade at home as a mother of twins.
Deck the Walls Having kids requires some home-design compromises, but it also presents an opportunity—namely, the excuse to make your home brighter, bolder, and more playful.
Bye-Bye Baby Cookie helps a Los Angeles couple turn a ho-hum nursery into a room that's as lively as their growing toddler.
Entertainment
On My Nightstand: Tom Perrotta Little Children author and father of two Tom Perrotta discusses what parents can learn from great screwups in coming-of-age literature.
Amanda Peet The X Files: I Want to Believe star and mother of an 18-month-old speaks candidly about her daughter and the controversy surrounding vaccines. Her comments have sparked a fierce debate.

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