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- STYLE+BEAUTY
- Styled by Mom Winner The votes were tallied and the winner is...
- Editors' Picks: Beat the Heat Come the sticky, sweaty last days of summer, we all need a little pick-me-up to make us feel pretty. Here, Cookie staffers share their favorite hot-weather beauty picks.
- Camping Clothes for the Whole Family In addition to the flashlights and bug spray, here are some fashionable (and functional) essentials for your family's camping checklist.
- TRAVEL
- Old-School Amusement Parks Directory Our eight favorite spots around the country that are more G-rated than G-force
- Galapágos Islands Tour Directory The best (and easiest) ways for families to see the islands on any budget
- Food+Parties
- Recipe Newsletter Sign up to get our can't-live-without recipes each week.
- Ice Cream Treats Whip up these sweet, gooey, refreshing summer treats and show the ice cream man that he's got some competition.
- Luau Party Supplies Now that you've pulled off a perfect summer luau, send your guests home with favors to keep them in the beachy spirit—all of which can be purchased in a one-stop online shop.
- Luau Recipes Instructions for how to make pork and shrimp kebabs, pineapple upside-down cake, and coconut sweet-potato fries.
- Entertainment
- Celebrity Parenting Advice Think you know your celebrity parents? We read through eight memoirs by some of the biggest names on the bookstore shelves and gleaned a little something from each one. See if you can match up the biographical snippet with the tome from which it came.
- Video Games for Mom 10 of the best games for keeping your mind and body active
- Wooden Games When all the bells and whistles (not to mention the neon-colored plastic) of your kids' newfangled toys start to wear on you, try shifting gears to some simple, good 'ol fashioned fun.
- Cookie Sheet: Candace Cameron As the wife of a former NHL player and mother of three athletic children, actress Candace Cameron Bure is at home in her newest role: soon-to-be stepmom to a young gymnast on ABC Family's drama Make It or Break It.
- Cookie Sheet: Bucky Lasek The longtime pro skateboarder and six-time Olympic gold medal winner talks about touring the world, what he learned from his single mom, and overnighting Maryland crab cakes.
- Gear+Shopping
- Online Sales The best sales on the Web this week
- Nature Toys Got a bug enthusiast? Bird lover? Gardening fiend? Below, the 11 best toys for discovering the great outdoors.
- HOME FRONT
- Family Playroom Design Inspired by her childhood play space, a Connecticut mom fashions a room for her own sons that encourages self-expression—be it through building blocks or mud pies.
- Shop the Shoot: Family Playroom Products Though many of the items in our August playroom story were custom-built for the family, don't despair—you can easily re-create their cozy look with these store-bought items.
- Playrooms Get inspiration and ideas from our favorite playrooms.
- Ask HGTV's Genevieve Gorder Genevieve Gorder is a designer, a mom, and the host of Dear Genevieve, which airs Saturdays at 8:30PM / 7:30PM Central on HGTV.
- Nursery Art Illustrations for your newborn's nursery.
- Late-Bloomer Mom: Karen Duffy After working as an MTV VJ, Karen Duffy was used to being the most mature person in the room. But that doesn't mean that she was ready to be the oldest mom in her kid's class.
- Simultaneous Pregnancies Can you imagine you and your partner carrying a child at the same time? For these lesbian couples, medical technologies have enabled them to do just that (even if it was unexpected). From simultaneous pregnancy to reciprocal IVF, find out the new methods same-sex couples use to build their families.
- School Bullying No longer considered "just a part of growing up," bullying has gained new attention from parents, educators, doctors, and legislators. Find out about the latest efforts to stand up to school bullying.
- BRAIN+BODY
- 15 Breast-Feeding Myths Explained Will it make my boobs sag? Am I allowed to drink? Health writer Suzanne Schlosberg and certified breast-feeding educator Suzanne Fredregill set the record straight about breast-feeding.
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- From the Magazine
- When new articles from the August issue become available online, they will be added to this page.
- Style+Beauty
- Pretty Easy: Before the Sunset The last time you swam in the ocean all day, took a long shower, and leisurely primped for cocktail hour was probably your honeymoon. Recapture the high with these late-summer finds.
- The Uniform: Camping Gear Get your fix of adventure and bond with your brood in clothes inspired by the ultimate summer experience: camp.
- More Than Skin-Deep One mother wonders if having children has robbed her of her looks or if it's all in her head. Her conclusion: a little bit of both.
- Patterns and Textures In a kaleidoscope of colorful patterns, rich textures, and dramatic flourishes, a band of urban iconoclasts revel in their final days of summer freedom and take to the streets. Just try to keep up.
- Travel
- Unique Vacation: Galápagos Islands One hundred and fifty years after Darwin's On the Origin of Species, an animal-obsessed father and son visit the zoological holy land of the Galápagos Islands.
- Family Vacation: Dominican Republic You'd be surprised how much vacation you can squeeze out of a four-day getaway. Behold designer Cynthia Rowley and her family, who spend a long weekend in the Dominican Republic hopscotching nonstop from surfing to horseback riding to swinging Tarzan-style through the jungle.
- Food+Parties
- Luau Party Take advantage of the outdoors with a fun-in-the-sun birthday luau.
- Three Rice Recipes Four easy ways to fall in love with the crowd-pleasing staple all over again.
- Father of Invention: Ming Tsai How the celebrity chef and dad is making restaurants more food allergy-friendly.
- Three Easy Tomato Recipes At their peak, summer tomatoes make the best case there is for seasonal eating. With their bright and savory—and heartbreakingly fleeting—flavor, they need little more than a drizzle of olive oil or a sprinkle of salt to feel like a meal.
- Entertainment
- Vera Farmiga She's had a winning streak of dark, edgy roles, but actress Vera Farmiga—who lives with her musician-woodworker husband, 6-month-old son, and two angora goats—is all mellow sunshine offscreen.
- Rachel Cusk's Reading List The author of A Life's Work, a groundbreaking book on motherhood, looks to the classics for parenting wisdom.
- Home Front
- Family Playroom Inspired by her childhood play space, a Connecticut mom fashions a room for her own sons that encourages self-expression—be it through building blocks or mud pies.
- That Mom: Karen Duffy As the host of FLN's new travel show Surprise Vacations with Karen Duffy and the mother of Jack, 5, this New York City native is no stranger to looking great while on the go. Here, the MVP style finds she relies on.
- Art House Design Two painters decorate their family's home with quirky sculptures, piles of books, and inspiration on every wall.
- Brain+Body
- Four Easy Workout Plans How can you get fit when you can't even fit a workout into your day? Whether you have 5 minutes or 45, these full-body workouts will take "I'll start tomorrow" right out of the equation.
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