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Forts are a great imagination-building activity for city kids on a cold winter day—or any day. Here’s a collection of links to get your imagination going:
Wondertime (via nursery.apartmenttherapy) article featuring three different ways to build forts.
For the ambitious, check out MrMcGroovys awesome fort plans including instruction for […]

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To say there’s a lot of hype around the preschool admissions process is an understatement of epic proportions. Anecdotal evidence regarding every aspect of the game flies back and forth across the playground like, well, children. While this post won’t answer all your questions about preschool admissions, we hope it provides a solid overview.
While for […]

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Thank you, Greg Allen of DaddyTypes, for bringing our attention to Steve Johnson’s response to David Brooks’ Hipster Parent rant. Johnson does a nice job of dissecting the multiple layers of BS in the editorial, but what I am really happy about was his main point—that the big deal with the hipster parent movement is […]

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I’ve been trying to stay out of the whole hipster parent smorgasblog, hoping it will just go away, but since David Brooks brought it up in his NYTimes editorial today—and my kids are asleep—I guess I’m going to enter the fray.
Needless to say there has been a lot written on this subject already, some […]

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An article in the New York Times discusses the school choice process parents face for their children in NYC. In a city where education is such an important issue for families, parents and kids are stressing out over it earlier and earlier. The article questions whether educational choices give more options or whether “school shopping” […]

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Macmillan’s Online Dictionary has featured the phrase Fridge Googling, a term coined by the online parenting community, as its term of the week. Have you heard the term? Is it something your family does? Fridge Googling, it has also been known as Google Cooking, is to look for recipes online by searching for the […]

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One of the things that makes NYC the ultimate place to live with kids is you don’t have to travel far for great family recreational activities. And, since we finally got some snow, skiing with the kids sounds pretty good right about now. But, where are the best places to go skiing with kids near […]

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At least in New York, where, besides the large immigrant Asian population, a significant number of families have adopted Chinese children, the Chinese New Year seems to be becoming almost a universally celebrated holiday. More and more, children are celebrating it in their classrooms, if not at home. But the Lunar New Year is a […]

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Nothing is a sweeter Valentine than your delicious baby, toddler, or child—this craft activity will turn them into a sweet Valentine for your spouse or even for yourself. Good quality jpgs of vintage valentines are just a google image search away. Then all you need is iron-on printer paper and a onesie, camisole or […]

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