For most tots, the best part about summer camp is water time. Whether your kids’ camp has a heated indoor pool or just some hoses on the roof, here are the five things they’ll need to bring.

We get a serious kick out of discovering cool kids’ brands before they go mainstream. (It’s especially fun when the designers are based right here in New York.) With that in mind, we’d like to go on record as saying these four local labels are headed for the big leagues.

In honor of the 100th issue of StrollerTraffic’s NYC edition (today!), here are the top 100 reasons we love raising kids in the City.

Denim snobs have been all about Japanese denim for quite a while now. (Something about natural indigo dyes, selvage edges, and old-school shuttle looms.) Now a new label, Tom & Drew, says it’s one of the first companies in America to make kids jeans out of Japanese denim.