| | | | | | If you were an alien visiting from outer space perusing kids' stores you could only arrive at one conclusion: all human boys love trucks, robots, pirates and dinosaurs. And human girls love butterflies, flowers and fairies and princesses. And all children love owls. It may be true that kids are drawn to certain themes and topics - animals especially, but I can't help wonder how much of it is a self-fulfilling prophesy: companies produce kids' goods with certain motifs over and over again because it's what they think will sell and parents buy them because...well, that's what's in the store. | | | | | | | | Name: The Roeder Family Location: Round Rock, TX Welcome to the home of the Roeder family. Homeowners Vanessa and Jonathan — with their children Audrie and Finn — have taken a builder grade home and injected it with personality, imagination, and life. You'll feel the spirit of the place right when you walk in, but it'll continue to inspire long after you leave. | | | | | | | | My parents always shooed us outside in the summertime. We'd come in for lunch and the occasional popsicle, but we otherwise lived outside. If you're planning the same for your kids, here are ten ideas for making your outside space more appealing, more fun and more memorable. | | | | | | | | I feel like I spend half my day picking up random glasses around the house and bringing them to the sink. So I was recently thinking to buy each family member a different looking glass (for water, primarily) that would be theirs for the entire day and these family glasses are a super cute option. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Apartment Therapy Media | 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1204 | New York, NY 10012 | |