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- Travel
- Passport FAQs Get the lowdown on new passport requirements for children.
- Food+Parties
- Party Games For your little one's next birthday party, get back to the basics with these oldies-but-goodies.
- Brain+Body
- IUD Testimonials When you have kids underfoot and a huge to-do list in your head, taking the pill every day can feel like mission impossible. IUDs (intrauterine devices) offer long-term, hands-off birth control, but many women are in the dark about what they are or how they work.
- How to Green Your School Making a difference isn't as daunting as it sounds. We consulted the experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists about these effective ways to make an impact on your child's school. Talk your principal, PTS president, or facilities director about how you can put these ideas into action.
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- From the Magazine
- When new articles from the September issue become available online, they will be added to this page.
- Style+Beauty
- They Might Be Giants How could they possibly have gotten so big? Last night, you tucked in your babies. This morning, they're headed off to school. If you can't keep them little forever, you can at least stop time with these classics of childhood dressing.
- The Uniform: Hepburn Hip A fitted leather jacket, wide-legged trousers, and spectator pumps add up to adventure and elegance.
- Saving Face Three months of fun in the sun may have left your skin far from baby smooth. Luckily, a trip or two to the dermatologist can undo all kinds of UV damage.
- Puffer Vests Back to school means back to battles over getting dressed and out the door. Enter the puffer vest. The lack of sleeves transforms it from a burden into an "I want it on now" accessory, and it can layer over everything from T-shirts to wool sweaters.
- Travel
- Babymoons You've completed your first trimester, and your doctor has cleared you for travel. What you really crave (yes, even more than pickles) is a "babymoon" that lets you and your partner relax and reconnect.
- Safari Vacation One mom demystifies the trip of a lifetime.
- Food+Parties
- Oldies but Goodies Classic party games that will convince you to forgo the bouncy castle and the $250-an-hour magician.
- Get Packin' Speedy, healthy strategies for stuffing lunch sacks and getting out the door.
- Peas, Three Ways Seriously nutritious whether fresh or frozen, peas keep in your freezer for months and cook up in minutes.
- Entertainment
- Reading: Elective Memory ooking for parenting principles (and presidential potential) in the McCain and Obama memoirs.
- Milla Jovovich Milla Jovovich, model, actress, and designer of the eclectic, vintage-inspired women's line Jovovich-Hawk, eases into fall in ultrafeminine blouses and simple bottoms with her 10-month-old daughter, Ever, in tow.
- Home Front
- Down and Dirty A mom decides she needs to take action to get action. So she books a hotel room for a little lust in the afternoon.
- Class Participation Facing an inbox full of requests to buy this, bring that, come here, go there, one mom begs for some relief.
- Mother of Invention: Gucci Westman The makeup artist and mom talks about her career, pumping, and making time for glamour.
- A Country House The weekend home of designer David Weeks and his family is made for unwinding, with a none-too-fussy style and lots and lots of board games.
- Kindergarten Blues Should he stay or should he go? A mother's agonizing decision process.
- Brain+Body
- Inside Jobs: IUDs An informal office poll confirmed our theory that many women are simply in the dark: To the question "Would you use an IUD?" we got responses ranging from "Didn't they stop making those in the '70s?" to "Do they create a force field in the uterus?" If you answered yes to either, keep reading.
- Lesson Building At green schools, kids don't just learn in the classroom—they learn from the classroom.
- Imagine That When one mom started a pre-K program based on make-believe and movement, she set off a happy torrent of creativity—and reminded parents of the power of play.
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