The Mom & Baby Issue 2018
Managing Labor Pains; Baby Backpacks vs. Strollers; Creating a Minimalist Nursery; Summer Camp Guide
Tell Me a Story
Do you know the story of your birth? I’d always had just a hazy idea of what happened during mine. Recently, though, I asked my…
How Can Moms Model Self-Compassion for Their Children?
New York Times best-selling poet Rupi Kaur captured the attention of readers across the globe when she wrote, “How you love yourself is how you…
Duo Lingo: A Bilingual Family on Raising Twins, Packing Lunches and Taking Breathers
Smiles and laughter are abundant in the Fitzgerald family’s small but cozy house, tucked away in a neighborhood off of Shelburne Road in South Burlington….
A Chihuahua Bonds With Children
On a breezy April morning, Gail Peck sits down on a comfortable couch at Little One’s University in Essex with a 5-year-old girl, a picture…
Destination Recreation: MetroRock
My 2-year-old daughter leaps without thinking, while my 6-year-old son strategically plans and calculates risks before taking the plunge. So when Luke and I arrived…
Backpacks or Strollers: Which is Better for Babies’ Development?
When Gina Mireault’s son and daughter were small, she often chose a backpack baby carrier rather than a stroller out of necessity. She owned two…
Pathways Through Pain: Three Mamas Share the Different Ways They Managed the Challenges of Labor
In other cultures and languages, there are specific words for the feelings women experience during childbirth. In Swedish, the word is värkar. In Swahili, the…
Habitat: Minimalist Nursery
One of the first things you’ll probably hear upon entering my house is my 2-year-old son, Mo, addressing you with an outstretched hand. “Hands, walk,…
Expressing Motherhood’s Mama Monologues
In 2010, Sheramy Tsai was living in Boston with two kids under age 2 and blogging about her experience as a mom. Her interest was…
A COTS Walk for Grateful Hearts
The theme for this year’s COTS Walk — gratitude — was inspired, in part, by a 6-year-old Bellows Falls girl who sent a box of…
Haute Kiddie Cuisine at the Hungry Pea
Thanks to TV shows such as “MasterChef Junior” and “Kids Baking Championship,” young people today are more culinary-savvy than ever. They — and their parents…
Grandma’s Maple-Glazed Apples & Hot Dogs: A Recipe Passed Down Through the Generations
When my parents were first married, they lived in Oklahoma and Texas. But nothing felt like home except Vermont, where my father had lived for…
Gabrielle & Cirilo Augustín
You were raised in a French-Canadian family in Vermont; your husband, Edwin, grew up in Chile; and you both speak Spanish to Augustín at home….
Being There: How Birth and Cancer Tightened Family Bonds
My nephew came into this world on the day before Thanksgiving in 2003, via an emergency cesarean. My sister, Tanya, had unexpectedly developed a placental…
Tell Us About a Favorite Camp Meal or Food Tradition
The camp kitchen is steaming with yummy smells and the sounds of laughter and chatter on Saturday nights. Our wonderful camp cook has Saturdays off,…
Humor & Heart: An Interview With Essayist Kimberly Harrington
When Kimberly Harrington walks into Burlington’s Citizen Cider for a chat with Kids VT — sporting red lipstick, a stylish shag haircut and a gray…
