Introducing your child to the pleasures of cooking and food preparation at an early age helps set them on a lifelong path of healthy eating, not to mention creativity and self-sufficiency. One of the things Curious Chef, the maker of this set, does so well is to create high-performing cooking utensils for kids that put kitchen safety at the forefront. This 3-piece Nylon Knife Set is a prime example. The serrated blades ha...Read more

One of the challenges parents face each year is how best to occupy their kids over the summer, optimally with a combination of fun activities that support academic progress. Brain Chase, a five week online summer learning challenge for 2nd through 8th graders, is designed to do just that. That the program is conceived as a real-life treasure hunt is both motivating and entertaining. Weekly animated video segments follow t...Read more

Having these cards at your fingertips is like having a parenting road map to your child's emotional, physical, and intellectual needs. This complete set includes 6 distinct card sets, each of which focuses on learning activities suitable to a particular year in your young child's life (ages 0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6). Each of these year-based subsets contains 40 laminated cards on a metal ring, and every card brings so...Read more

Oh, how quickly Chillafish BOX turned a room strewn with toys, books, and paper into a tidy, delightfully attractive space. BOX, simply put, is a cube with a purpose. Cubes, to be precise, for these modular units, each of which contains a spacious, bin-like drawer, connect to one another horizontally or vertically. This storage space is a thing of beauty in how quickly and easily it removes from sight the debris that chil...Read more

The Felix Fox Rattle from Emy+Annie has a particularly endearing quality about it that stems, in part, from having been handmade and hand-sewn. Subtle asymmetries in its shape and design make it all the more warm and alive, qualities that attract and hold a baby's attention. The simplicity with which the fox's features are conveyed is equally well-suited to the hands and eyes of the very young. Even the rattle sound is ni...Read more

Fitivities is a great party and family game that keeps the entire group in motion from start to finish. It's exciting, invigorating, and it gets bodies moving in such a variety of ways that playing it with any regularity stands a good chance of making you fit as a fiddle. Even so, most people play Fitivities because it's fast, competitive fun. Each team is given a die, a shoe-shaped playing piece, and a spinner. There is ...Read more

Children find Frogglez Goggles to be a highly appealing way to enhance their fun in the water, be it the tub, pool, lake, or ocean. Part of their charm is the distinctive appearance. While they are intended for non-competitive swimmers, Frogglez have a sleek, fashionable look that makes kids feel special, a bit like the pro swimmers they may someday become. But the attraction is equally about ease and comfort. The neopren...Read more

This kids' kitchen cutting tool works like a charm and charms kids while it works. Watch even the pickiest eaters get a smile on their face when they see the bite-sized pieces pop out. There are no sharp blades, just an ingeniously simple, playfully attractive curved plastic cutter that operates by applying pressure and a gentle rocking motion, doing the job quickly and easily. The popper top then slides in from above and...Read more

This new Minions-themed food cutter set from FunBites brings a playfulness to the table that can melt even the pickiest eaters' resistance. It's quick and easy for parents to use and generates surprisingly intricate goggle-shaped patterns and pieces in foods as diverse as cheese, fruit, bread, brownies, pancakes, and more. There are no sharp blades, just an ingeniously simple plastic cutter (with easy-to-hold handles) tha...Read more

Infants are non-stop explorers, experimenting, learning, and drawing conclusions based on interactions with their physical environment. The design of this combination blankie/teether serves those needs well, putting an assortment of rich, stimulating experiences at babies' fingertips. The star-shaped blankie has a knot at the tip of each of its five points that provide easy gripping and added tactile variety and can be we...Read more

Each of the five teethers in this teething and stacking toy offers a unique sensory experience. Taken together, they form an impressively rich learning adventure, an ongoing visual and tactile exploration that builds motor skills, soothes gums, and stimulates the brain to understand differences and relationships in the physical world. That such an array of benefits is delivered by so seemingly simple a toy is a credit to ...Read more

The ease and versatility with which iBaby Monitor M6S can be set up and controlled wirelessly from smartphone or tablet makes it a delight to use. The on-screen interface is intuitive and uncluttered, making it a simple matter to choose among the remarkable range of features and options. In addition to being able to watch and listen to baby from remote locations, parents can provide comfort by talking to their child throu...Read more

Imo the Hippo is a uniquely creative product with the feel of an arts and crafts project. Both parent and child will treasure the time shared on it, and the resulting floor, table, or wall lamp will playfully accent any room it's in. The design, rooted in the concept of origami, allows Imo to be put together by folding and tucking sheets of pre-cut 100% recycled plastic. The plastic is already creased at every point where...Read more

Many of the milestones in your baby's development cannot be captured on film for the simple reason that there is no way to anticipate them and be camera-ready. Nevertheless, Milestone Baby Cards make it easy to photographically document each of these magical moments. There are 30 cards in all, 12 of which are event cards, each bearing a line of text - Today I smiled for the first time, rolled over for the first time, craw...Read more