Dessert doesn’t have to equal junk food on children’s plates. “If you stick with simple, all-natural ingredients, desserts can be a sweet, satisfying and healthy addition to your family’s daily diet,” says Laurel Moll, a New York-based holistic health coach and author of the blog laurelonhealthfood.com. “Just remember that when it comes to sweets, small [...]

**CONTEST CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO MARILYN BELL!**
Mile High Mamas loves Colorado-based mompreneurs and there’s a lot to love about Loves Me Not Clothing Company:
1) The whimsical, colorful, fun, fresh and darling styles.
2) A Colorado mom designs all the clothes that are also manufactured here in Colorado.
3) The quality and price are just right.
Loves Me [...]

After breaking a heel in a gymnastics accident three years ago, Margo Hayes tried indoor rock climbing to keep her upper body strong while her foot healed, and she fell in love with the vertical sport.
Now the Boulder seventh-grader is focused on climbing, and she is an American Bouldering Series youth champion who loves to [...]

They didn’t teach her much on the topic in school. Her parents, she says, were wonderful, but they didn’t exactly turn her into a financial whiz kid either.
So Susan Osborne of Thornton decided to coach her 3-year-old son, Jake, about finances at an early age. In the process, she stumbled upon an idea that she [...]

**CONTEST CLOSED–CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER ZONJA HAMILTON!**
I had heard of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet but didn’t read William Shakespeare’s tragedy until high school.
Talk about a letdown with that morose ending.
Thankfully, GNOMEO & JULIET won’t send your kids into a lovesick depression and instead takes a fresh and funny approach to the world’s most timeless story. [...]

What should you do if your child gets a fever, rash, sore throat or head injury? A new mobile phone application from The Children’s Hospital can answer these common medical questions and more – all from your iPhone. Learn how you can get Children’s iPhone app for free.

The greatest thing about love – it’s an innate gift – it lives inside of us and we can, and should, give it freely to others. Appropriate to the relationship and situation, love can do amazing, life changing things. A hug, a kiss, a pat on the back, a helping hand, a kind smile, a word of encouragement, [...]

The moms and dads of Skinner Middle School — taxpaying types with steady jobs and sensible family cars — don’t look like a bunch of radicals.
But after meeting quietly for months to brainstorm, then to crunch numbers and compile data, they went public with demands that turn a decade of school-choice/school-reform thinking on its head.
Their [...]

There isn’t much about 11-week-old Piper Monosoff that says she’s a girl. Her nursery is painted brown, yellow and orange; she travels around in a green stroller; her wardrobe is an assortment of quirky stripes and polka dots.
“I want people to see her as a baby, not a baby girl,” said her mother, Sara Steinbach, [...]

Growing up, we had a rotary dial phone. It was big and black and attached to the wall in the kitchen. In fact, my dad had built a special cubby for it in the wall, with a place for phone books on the shelf underneath.
(stock photo by gogoroko)
It had a really long cord.
A [...]