Archive for February, 2017
Please Mind The Gap by Andrea Santo Felcone
February 28th, 2017
On a recent trip to New York City, traveling by train, my little one was getting agitated. He doesn’t like to be told what to do. The automated announcer advising “be careful when exiting the train” and “please mind the gap” at every station stop was driving him crazy. Finally, ...
At My Pace: Lessons from Our Mothers (Book Excerpt by Contributor Evelyn Starr)
February 26th, 2017
The Art of Self I often express my love for my two children through berries. Strawberries are their favorite. On school mornings I wash and cut a ramekin’s worth for them as part of their breakfast. I am cutting fewer berries these days. Three weeks ago we dropped my son off for ...
No More Baseball Games by Sharon O’Donnell
February 25th, 2017
Since 2006, one of three boys has played middle or high school basketball and/or baseball -- not to mention recreation teams in city leagues. Throughout those years, my husband and I definitely saw the good, the bad, and yes, sometimes unfortunately, the ugly. The sports took a huge time commitment ...
Teaching Our Kids How Love Trumps Hate in the Trump Era by Wendy Sue Noah
February 20th, 2017
I was planning to write this blog prior to the inauguration, but then allowed myself to be taken away on the chaotic ride of our new president. All of a sudden, I was literally speechless (which is very unusual for verbal me). Tears formed in my eyes on a regular ...
Foil Hearts by Andrea Santo Felcone
February 14th, 2017
So, I'll admit, I was stumped. Every day I make my youngest son’s sandwich, wrap it in foil--send it off in his lunch bag. And every day, my six-year-old eats his sandwich, twists the foil into these odd shapes, and sends it back in his lunch bag. This went on ...
WATER ON MARS Show Review by Andrea Santo Felcone
February 13th, 2017
On Friday, February 10, my husband and I enjoyed the pleasure of a date night spent at The New Victory Theater taking in the sights and sounds of a delightfully-unique juggling show--WATER ON MARS. In this show, The New Victory Theater is presenting its very first-ever all juggling show—but to ...
THE GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW: AN INCREDIBUBBLE SHOW FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES! by Jamie Levine
February 11th, 2017
On February 12th, an off-Broadway classic, the Gazillion Bubble Show, celebrated its 10th year of entertaining kids of all ages in New York City. Last week, my 9-year-old daughter and I were lucky enough to discover the magic of this unbubblievable show for ourselves, and we weren’t disappointed. The performers of ...
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed by Jessica Lahey (Book Excerpt)
February 10th, 2017
CLEAR EXPECTATIONS AND ROOM TO LEARN Once your child is in middle and high school and those executive function skills have started to kick in, it’s time to remove your- self from your child’s homework duties. Around the beginning of middle school, when research shows that homework begins to have an ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING LITTLE by Erika Christakis (Book Excerpt)
February 8th, 2017
From THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING LITTLE by ERIKA CHRISTAKIS, to be published on February 7, 2017 by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © Erika Christakis, 2017. PARENTAL ATTACHMENT Does parenting matter? Studies of identical twins raised apart seemed to put a ...
The Struggle is Real by Elizabeth Dodson
February 7th, 2017
I've been struggling with blogging. I've been struggling with mommying. I've been struggling with adulting. I've been struggling with figuring out exactly what I'm struggling with. And then last night, in the middle of a rare moment of peaceful sleep from my daughter, where I could have been sleeping comfortably tucked into ...
