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

Peripop is many things - blanket, companion, cushion, play mat, room organizer, backrest - but above all it is a source of comfort and fun to kids from infant on up. Peripop is available in four different animals (Foxey, Pandy, Tiggy, and Beary), each with a vivid look and feel that immediately conveys its high quality and distinctive comfort and play appeal. Kids gravitate towards these cozy creatures whose warm colors a...Read more

In order to fully appreciate the quality and appeal of this remarkable children's product, one needs to experience it in person, hands on. For children age 5 to 12 months, it functions as an ultra-sturdy activity center in which the youngster resides in a bouncy seat surrounded by learning toys. Each of those five toys is impeccably designed to feed the child's need to grow, learn, and develop. The unit's four height-adju...Read more

Bathtub fun tends to be a mixed blessing for parents, due in no small part to water that sloshes to the floor when kids use the outer side of the bathtub as a play space. Wet toys, washcloths - anything that can be placed on the edge of the tub will be placed there, causing residual water to run to the floor. Shelfie remedies that by providing a plastic shelf that uses suction cups to adhere to the outer side of the batht...Read more

Travel can be stressful, and every parent knows how beneficial it is to have something that helps keep a child engaged and happy while confined in a car, bus, plane, or even a stroller. Snack & Play Travel Tray is a soft, durable tray with adjustable straps and super-easy buckles that allow it to be quickly adapted to those environments. It has two deep, mesh side-pockets that provide ample storage for toys, books, crayon...Read more

Young girls are powerfully drawn to wearing nail polish, a fact that can create a dilemma for parents. Anyone who has ever been within nose-range of regular nail polish knows there are powerful chemicals in the stuff. Snails safe-nails provides a safe solution by giving kids non-toxic nail polish that goes on easily, dries quickly, looks beautiful, and washes off with just soap and water. In addition to putting child safe...Read more

The Sneck is a remarkably adaptable pillow system that lets kids travel in comfort and style. Its fabric exterior is extremely gentle to the touch, but it is what is on the inside - tiny, micro-bead pillow pods - that makes it the perfect resting place for your child's head and neck. The Sneck's design allows it to be used lengthwise (extending down across the shoulder and front of body for an extra snuggly feel) or in a...Read more

snu:mee is a music box, baby monitor, and MP3 player all in one compact product that's loaded with great features. It can be controlled from your smart phone using a free companion app. That safe connection via Wi-Fi means parents can listen remotely (with a 300m range) and know when baby is fussing or restful. snu:mee comes preloaded with soothing lullabies and nature sounds and has 4GB of internal memory for loading add...Read more

It's rare that a product touting so many valuable features lives up to its promise, but such is the case with the Squeasy Snacker reusable food pouch. Its hinged no-leak cap keeps contents sealed inside (even against a good hard squeeze), while the easy-grip collar and spout making opening and closing a snap. A highly effective insert lets the Snacker serve up fluids such as milk, water, or juice without spilling, while r...Read more