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- Style+Beauty
- Skin Care Lines Whether you want to make up for those carefree summers in the sun, stave off fine lines and wrinkles, or firm sagging skin, this fall's crop of potent skin-care lines are targeted to address your specific concerns. Our picks accommodate every skin type and budget.
- Styling Products The best hair products for the coolest mom hairstyles.
- Space Clothes Beam me up! These sky-high boots, metallics and sci fi inspired prints will add some extraterrestrial excitement to your daily dress routine.
- Travel
- Abroad at Home You know about the Chinatowns and Little Italys, but did you know that Berne, Indiana, feels almost as Swiss as Berne, Switzerland? For authentic international experiences stateside, consider these five cities.
- Best Travel Websites Here are the top websites for planning a trip, getting recommendations from fellow parent-travelers, and scoring deals.
- Holiday Travel Deals Fall is in the air which means its time to start planning weekends away and your next family vacation. There are great deals on offer at a wide variety of destinations this year, but don't be shy about asking for further rate reductions and room upgrades for the upcoming holiday season.
- Food+Parties
- Recipe Newsletter Sign up to get our can't-live-without recipes each week.
- Healthy Kids' Cereal Find a cereal that appeals to children and still has enough nutritional value to get them through the day can be tough. We asked for ratings on a scale of 1 to 5 from the real arbiters of taste: kids.
- Exclusive Ruth Reichl Recipe The editor-in-chief of Gourmet gives us the recipe for Chicken, Rice, and Mango Lettuce Wraps.
- Slow Cooker Recipes Two recipes to use in a slow cooker.
- Candy Corn Homemade Halloween treat recipe.
- Entertainment
- Editors' October Picks Check out five new titles on our radar this month.
- Cookie Sheet: Jenna Elfman Once famous for her quirky hippie character on Dharma & Greg, Elfman returns to play a single city girl who gets pregnant by her much younger one-night stand on CBS's new comedy Accidentally on Purpose.
- Cookie Sheet: Lisa Anderson The women's surfing icon and creator of Lisa Pro Surf Camps for girls says she's as proud of the relationship that her son and daughter have as she is of her world title.
- Q&A: Jennifer Garner We caught up with the actress, and she told us about her favorite family dinners and how playing a butt-kicking international spy helped prepare her for motherhood.
- Gear+Shopping
- Online Sales The best sales on the Web this week
- HOME FRONT
- Why Your Kid Freaks Out The author of The Gay Uncle's Guide to Parenting helps us understand our kids' meltdowns and how to deal with them.
- Ask Genevieve This month, Genevieve Gorder tackles reader questions about decorating a shared kids' bedroom, reigning in pint-sized designers, and what to do with your child's beloved stuffed animals.
- How to Make the Most of Your Time Online The Internet can be a tool that makes your life easier. But between responding to e-mails, checking your social media, and catching up on blogs and news, sometimes it just feels like a time suck. Reclaim control with our favorite tips and tricks for making the most of your time online.
- Nashville Renovation Before and after photos of a Lincoln Log–style home.
- Saving Money We've got a few simple tips and strategies to help you more than $5,000 per year! Whether you put that toward vacation, your kid's college fund, or your 401K, it's all a bonus.
- BRAIN+BODY
- Health Reform Does health reform have you completely baffled? Same here. So we asked Jennifer Tolbert, a principal policy analyst at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation (and a mom), to break down some of the key issues.
- Postpartum Fitness Tracey Mallett, a fitness guru, mom of two, and author of the new book Super Fit Mama: Stay Fit During Pregnancy and Get Your Body Back After Baby (Da Capo Press), shares her tips for getting fit after having a child.
- The Dangers of Planned C-Sections and Induced Deliveries Induced labor and elective caesarian rates are up in the United States and, some doctors say, for the wrong reasons. So what's a mom-to-be to do when she's faced with making the decision of how she wants to give birth?
- Human Growth Hormones for Kids The FDA's 1985 approval of growth hormone, combined with looser a definition of deficiency has resulted in a surge of HGH usage for children.
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- From the Magazine
- When new articles from the October issue become available online, they will be added to this page.
- Style+Beauty
- Mom Hairstyles The coolest looks right now—top knot, blunt bob, and bangs—happen to be perfect for busy moms: They're flattering without a lot of fuss, versatile (which cancels out "boring"), and, paired with a dash of makeup, sexy enough to turn heads.
- Intergalactic Style A posse of sci-fi buffs, dressed in shiny, space-age clothes and moon boots, take in the latest intergalactic feature—and then other far-out sights on the long way home.
- Winged Eyeliner Exit your mascara-only comfort zone and try this quietly glam liner technique. "I've always been in awe of the golden years of Hollywood," says makeup pro Pat McGrath of her inspiration for the look, which she featured at Dolce & Gabbana's fall show. You'll be in awe at how easy it is.
- The Uniform: Sweaters, Boots, & Handbags And by that we mean "rustic and refined." This Friday-to-Sunday autumn look—chunky sweater, tall boots, versatile bag—makes you feel cozy and cool, whether you're picking apples with the kids or sipping mulled cider with friends.
- Travel
- Best Family Hotels of 2009 This year, our favorite getaways are literally and figuratively all over the map. What they all have in common is thoughtful catering to every member of the family, which means that for one week of your life, you don't have to.
- Food+Parties
- Peasant Food Comfort-food classics that turn vegetables and inexpensive cuts of meat into rich family dinners.
- So You Have Apples Three delicious recipes that include apples.
- Face Painting Masks Paint their faces and you're pretty much done with Halloween costumes. Three great ideas from a master.
- Where the Wild Things Are Costume What are we more excited about? Taking the kids to see the new Spike Jonze-directed Where the Wild Things Are (in theaters October 16), or the fact that a DIY Max Halloween costume couldn't be easier to pull together?
- Entertainment
- Jennie Garth We've known her as the sweetheart of 90210 since we were teens. But to her three daughters, Jennie Garth is picnic packer, baker-in-chief, and favorite playmate—who just happens to be making another star turn on a show they can't watch.
- Home Front
- Favoritism We're all guilty of going through phases of favoring one child over another. But what are the lasting implications of our behavior? A mother of twins, for whom favoritism is a constant, nagging issue, shares her wisdom.
- House Tour: Nashville In Nashville, a couple figure out how to make a Lincoln Log?style home work for their 21st-century family.
- Lost Libido It's a familiar story: Woman sacrifices libido at altar of motherhood. But one mom, tormented by her sad sex life, takes a less familiar route to get back in the sack.
- Stay-at-Home Spouses Forget the office—a dad realizes that being with the family 24-7 is full-time work with its own job description.
- Sock Crafts Three craft projects that give new life to those lone socks orphaned in the dryer.
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