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The Best Toys of 2026 From Toy Fair – Playful, Innovative & Totally TikTok-Ready

The Best Toys of 2026 From Toy Fair – Playful, Innovative & Totally TikTok-Ready

From magnetic building systems reinventing creativity to sensory play that never gets old, Toy Fair 2026 showed us where play is heading, and what every family will be talking about this year. With innovation at the heart of this year’s hottest toys, these picks aren’t just trending, they’re built to grow with your kids (even tweens!) and capture imaginations long after the initial unboxing.

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Etiquette Training: Outdated or Totally Necessary?

For the final event of the school year, my daughters Brownie troop hosted a mother-daughter tea, at the home of one of the girls in the troop. Now, this would have been lovely, except that the tea was not just any old tea. This tea was being billed as an etiquette lesson, and was to be led by an expert in etiquette and manners. Oy.

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Help, I’m Totally Frazzled!

I would like todays Blog to address a comment a friend of mine made to me the other day. It went something like this: Erica, I have to tell you, Im losing my patience. Im yelling at my kids a lot lately. I cant remember the last time I sat on the floor with them to do a puzzle. Im short tempered with my husband. Im pulled in a million different directions, and Im completely frazzled!