Originals

Teach your kids to write on actual paper with great stationery You know the drill. It’s your nugget’s birthday party. And despite having specified “no gifts” on the invitation, the inevitable pile of Mary Arnold red-and-white-wrapped prezzies arrive—prompting your cracked-out-on-cake mini-me to tear them open with rabid gusto, leaving ribbon and paper carnage on your […]

OCCUPATION: VP of Marketing, Versace MY STYLE: Classic glamour with an edge. I mix high/low and all types of designers—though I typically wear Versace, especially during the week. On the weekend I may have on a blazer, a pair of shorts, and a ruffled shirt. During the week, I usually wear lots of sheath dresses with

Determined to concoct healthier food for babies, Calabasas-based Liane Weintraub, mother to seven-year-old Ava and six-year-old Cole, founded Tasty Brand with Shannan Swanson. Ever since, the company has evolved into a popular line of healthy and organic snacks for kids ages 0 to 12. Cookies (sweetened with Agave instead of sugar), organic fruit snacks, and carrot cake

OCCUPATION: Professional actress currently seen on ABC’s Cougartown MY STYLE: Eclectic I LOVE L.A. BECAUSE: Los Angeles is so easy with kids. There are amazing parks and indoor play spaces. There are farmers’ markets every day of the week somewhere in the city. There are tons of kid-friendly restaurants. Lamill Turquoise snakeskin banquets, toile wallpaper,

The Dial-A-Mom for moms, these miracle-workers help with all your parenting needs I don’t drive. I can—technically. But as a die-hard New Yorker, I just don’t do it. Ever. Last summer, while in the country, my husband hired the local football coach to boost my confidence. He showed me how to get to the hospital in

Sweet dreams, songs for slumber For centuries, mothers, fathers, nurses, aunts, and older siblings have all sung children to sleep. What makes a song fit for the task? Lullabies soothe and reassure, yes, but they also send children into the land of dreams—where anything can happen. Sometimes they can be scary (and perhaps more truthful

Batmobiles, 007 watches and Columbo: there’s no one like the Boss to get your kids dancing to the music The Boss as a rock and roll superhero/detective/secret agent who rescues his love from “impendin’ heartbreak.” Are you kidding me? He actually says Batmobile in this song. Enough said. —Anna Pellicioli About The Mix Tape Think you have to

Damien Hirst, the greatest among the Young British Artists (YBA), has centered his 20-year career on one goal: to have people rethink the life-death continuum (with more emphasis on the latter). Not exactly kid friendly material, but put a child in front of his magnum opus, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of

KID FRIENDLY: Address: Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, Rome, IT Website: sweb01.dbv.uniroma1.it Phone: 39 06 4991 2436 The gravel paths here—well-tread by strollers and their devoted pushers—wind through literally thousands of species of plants. “See palm trees, the Fontana del Tritone, and the Japanese garden,” Cecile Leroy Beaulieu says. She also recommends trekking to the pagoda at

High praise to the food and theatrics at this Tribeca restaurant When we take all three kids out to eat at a nice place, I cringe when they act up. And when at a kiddie’s dump, gulping sulfate-infused cheapo wine provides some sort of relief from the yapping from nugget-packed tables. My favorite restaurants are