The Guru of New Welcomes GuruMommy.

We Gurus have to stick together. So I immediately zipped over to check out a site GuruMommy.com, created by Linda Meadow, the author of City Baby LA guidebooks, who has three living-breathing reasons to call herself a Mommy Guru.

Unfortunately, I think I arrived at the site too soon. Much of it feels like it’s still under construction — categories either have skimpy or no content. Classifieds offer only a note about Baby Strollers. The blog has few posts. There is a lot of promise here — I especially like the Guru Seal –but the site breaks the cardinal rule of website building: before launch, make sure every category is richly populated so it looks like there’s ‘someone home.’

The site also feels a bit like it exists in a time warp, where families still take pricey vacations, buy trendy gifts (Poppy Gift Store Bins for Baby Boy at $260) and face the challenge of kidlet moving up to a big kid bed that costs thousands of dollars. Perhaps GuruMommy’s LA is faring better during this R-word than other places but I know a long list of Moms in SoCal and most are watching their pennies carefully.

My favorite part was actually the post about coping with head lice. This near-universal problem was one of the shockers of moving to balmy California — and I was happy to see that Guru Mommy tackled this non-cool, always-distressing concern.

I’m looking forward to visiting this site again and discovering a thriving site chockful of useful content.