Our jaws dropped when we heard that our family travel expert, Heidi Sherman Mitchell (travel editor at Town&Country magazine and mother to three kids under the age of 5) brought her four-week-old baby on a press trip to Uruguay. So we asked her to share some thoughts on finding the courage to travel with an infant, and more importantly: where to go.

The greatest inventions arise out of frustration. So it should come as no surprise that there’s now a faster way to cut food into bite-size pieces and a more reliable method of taking a baby’s temperature. We’ve rounded up some of the most brilliant products in the parenting sphere (according to our Gear Guy, Jamie Grayson, as well as our own Facebook fans). Here, the very best gadgets for . . .

In honor of Father’s Day we’re giving props to the dads who have discovered ways to make our lives easier. Here are five of our favorite products created for kids by their entrepreneuring dads.

Parents like to take pictures of their babies sleeping. They also like to take pictures of them eating, laughing, sitting, crawling, or just staring into space. Three thousand pictures later, what on Earth are you supposed to do with all those images?