Moms

It’s easy to get lost in the mound of backpacks, school supplies and paper slips that go along with back-to-school season. Staying calm, however, can help us better manage our time, stress and clutter. With the help of parenting and education expert Dr. Michele Borba, we’ve put together some tips for parents and children to stay organized and keep anxiety levels down during the back-to-school madness.

1. Take a breath. As parents, we tend to focus so much on our children that we forget to manage our own health. What you may not know is that...

As a new mom, I’m still learning the ins and outs of the family friendly scene in the Valley. Luckily, I have been introduced to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix early in the game.  Definitely a new obsession for my entire family, including five month old Mia Valentina.

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are one of many celebrity couples who asked Phoenix-based photographer Keri Meyers to capture their newborn’s first stages of life, and you too can have star-quality baby photos here in the Valley.

In 2008, Keri Meyers’ Newborn Photography was born, and has since gained international recognition from celebrities, photographers and OK! Magazine. Meyers has received first place awards in newborn photography at Best of Western Washington and the Newborn Division for National Association of Professional Child Photographers.

Each year, she travels five to seven times to do celebrity...

The idea for the Scottsdale-based company, Adventure Trunk, came to owner Rachel Gaunt after years of (unbeknownst) planning. A psychology graduate well-versed in early childhood education, Gaunt spent several years in college and afterwards working as a nanny for families in the Scottsdale area, hired on to plan daily lessons for those she cared for. “Through [school] I discovered ways to turn all of the activities I was doing into educational ones…I was teaching a two-year-old how to read…how to add and subtract, and many...