I can’t believe Mommy Poppins is coming up on its first birthday. And, like the overbearing mother that I am, I’m already thinking about all the things I can change to make my baby even better than it is.
Toward the end of the year we’re planning a complete overhaul of this site with a […]

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This weekend there are two events happening in Dumbo, Brooklyn that will make a great day out with kids.
First is the 4th Annual Bubby’s Pie Social where you can taste pies made by community members. It is expected that hundreds of homemade pies will be available. Kids can enter their own pies too. If you […]

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You don’t have to try to fool your kids into eating food that’s good for them. You just have to slightly more clever than they are. That’s where these five handy food hacks come in. Just little tricks that will help you get more vegetable matter into those little mouths.
Putting out veggie appetizers. I learned […]

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Way back in June the New York Times published what may have been the least helpful guide to making family meals I have ever read. It was something to the effect that mom should spend her weekends organizing and shopping and cooking meatloaves and roasts and other boring, but noncontroversial food. The real […]

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Fall is a great time for a fresh start. With the beginning of a new school year we try to get our acts together and get organized around planning simple dinners and easy lunches. We’ve got to organize all the various family members’ schedules. It gets the us A types very excited.
While we’re fantasizing about […]

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Running around and exploring New York is great, but sometimes with kids and toddlers on the scene you’d rather just explore the city from the comfort of your desk chair. This post is a collection of sites that take you to great off the beaten track places around NYC without ever getting off your…laptop.
Whether you […]

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One of the freaky things about having kids is that you’ll be tooling along in your life when, WHAMM!, they’ll say or do something that just knocks your socks off and makes everything stop. If you’re lucky, you’re not too self-obsessed with blogging or reading headlines on I Can Has Cheezburger to notice and you […]

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In the series NYC Nanny 101: The finding and care of your nanny Parts 1 and 2 I’ve tried to lay out some basic tips on finding a caregiver in New York, the interview and salaries. But there are lots of different perspectives on this issue. And some of them will make you wet your […]

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I should never admit this, but when I was younger I kind of liked the idea of being a soccer mom. The image of popping my athletic kids into a station wagon and driving them around our little town to their various activities seem kind of nice. It does make the suburbs sound kind of […]

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Mommy Poppins reader, Robin, says she’s found a few nannies to interview through other nannies, friends and craigslist (just as we suggested in part 1 of this series)…but, now what! As Robin plainly puts it, “My husband and I agree on one thing—we have no idea what we are doing.”
So you’ve gotten some names, what […]

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