One of my absolute favorite things to do with the kids on a nice day is to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge into Dumbo. This excursion has all the makings of a perfect day out with the kids; a little relaxing exercise, great ice cream and pizza, a great park and a boat ride. I […]

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If you’re a parent you can’t help but be concerned with the environment lately. Especially when you think about it in terms of what kind of environmental problems we are leaving behind for our children. Often, I think, we feel helpless, like there’s just not that much that we can do to make a difference. […]

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It’s getting to be that time of year when a parent has to stare down the reality of how many hours there actually are in the day during summer vacation. If your kids aren’t in summer camp all summer, then that’s A LOT OF TIME, and you’re going to be thinking real hard about activities […]

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One of the things about raising your kids in NYC is that your neighbors are just as likely to be famous writers, artists or scientists as they are to be the more run-of-the-mill, US Weekly celebrities. In our building giggling teenage girls hang out in the lobby hoping to get help with their physics homework […]

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Moms seem to have an endless capacity for self-doubt and insecurities about their mothering skills. I won’t try to conjecture why that is, but I did see a quote in the New York Times that sums up the feeling quite eloquently.
I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything. One lives […]

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Sun Prints are pictures you make by creating shadows on photosensitive paper. By laying objects on a piece of sun print paper and then exposing it in a sunny windowsill, you create your own image. There’s really something magical and poetic about it.
When I was a kid, Sunlight Prints were the thing that my […]

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The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden is like a brain scan of a twelve year old boy 30 years ago. It’s filled with fun and educational information like The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World, The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know, Slingshots, Making a Bow and Arrow, Timers and […]

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An amazing and talented little 7 year old girl that I know is sewing the most adorable little dolls and selling them online. Each doll is unique and hand sewn by this child with an embroidered face and yarn hair. They have a very unique style, are just adorable and would make wonderfully appealing handmade […]

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When we had our second child we were stricken with second child guilt in all the familiar places. No, our number two doesn’t have a baby book, I have no clue how old he was when he rolled over, I’m even a little shaky on what his first word was. There’s no video of […]

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I thought it might be nice to put together a list of NYC kid-related blogs, but it’s been surprisingly challenging to find other NYC parenting and mommy blogs. Over the last couple of months I’ve been adding to my list, but if you have a NYC parenting blog or know of mommy blogs I’ve missed […]

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