All NYC kids should be raised restaurant-ready, but it doesn’t happen automatically. My blogger friend, and Izzy’s Mom, chronicles her quest to raise her son as a gourmand on her site, Izzy Eats and has been generous enough to share some of her tips for how to eat out at restaurants with kids and enjoy […]

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What kids eat is very important and having the right snack can actually improve a child’s ability to learn. Our school occupational therapy consultant, Casey Halper, put together a list of sensory smart snacks.
That means that they are snacks that help kids stay alert and focused in school without making them hyper and restless. These […]

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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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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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The whole ban on bringing water through airport security thing has been driving me mad. First of all, I think that they are not letting anyone bring water on airplanes because two idiots were thinking about trying to make gel bombs is just one of the worst examples of how we are letting the terrorists […]

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When we were looking for eCards for Father’s Day, we discovered hoops and yoyo on Hallmark.com. Hoops and yoyo are an animated cat and bunny that sound like the kids from South Park and sport an edgy sense of humor. They have a bunch of funny eCards for different occasions, but now my kids just […]

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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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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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We’ve been talking about the best schools in NYC on this site all month, but many experts will tell you that what happens at home is much more important than what school a child goes to. You don’t have to be a homeschooler to find teachable moments during the course of your regular day. But, […]

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