Introducing a baby to real-people food is totally fun. For about a week. Then the novelty wears off, and it can be anything from frustrating to terrifying—challenging, to be sure. For some tips on surviving the transition, we asked Catherine McCord, founder of the wildly popular baby-food blog Weelicious, for her top 10 things to keep in mind.

Shortly after Condé Nast announced it was folding Cookie magazine last week, we found ourselves searching for new websites to replace Cookie’s “Daily Find” and “Nesting” blogs on our short list of daily reads. It occurred to us that some of you might be looking for new reads as well. So here you go: the best blogs and sites (in our humble opinion) if you’re looking for . . .

Most new parents suffer a low-grade level of anxiety over whether they’re providing their babies with enough stimulation. (Does she have enough toys? The right ones? Are we teaching him the right skills for his age?) So we asked our developmental experts over at Seedlings Group for some learning-through-play guidelines, along with a list of their favorite toys for every age and stage.

There’s a growing backlash against parents who let their wee ones watch television. And while we more or less subscribe to the ideal-world notion of a TV-less infancy, we feel the need to keep things real. After all, we’re talking about television, not cigarettes.