Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
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 ...
Playdates at the Magician’s House By Andrea Santo Felcone
February 6th, 2017
Sometimes it takes a new perspective on something to see it in a different light. Like, say, when every Halloween a guy living in your neighborhood gets on these gigantic wooden stilts and scares the pants off your kids--so much so, they can’t cross the street to trick-or-treat at the ...
Refinery Hotel: A Refuge with a View by Robin Gorman Newman
February 4th, 2017
[caption id="attachment_24777" align="alignleft" width="175"] (Rooftop Fireplace)[/caption] New York in January is a place that many, other than tourists, want to escape, once the ball has dropped and new years excitement has waned. But, for my 13 year old son and I, given the opportunity to squeeze in a quickie staycation, no matter ...
ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “We Are in a Play!”: Show Review by Amy Wall Lerman
January 30th, 2017
To know them is to love them. And if you’re a kid aged 8 and under, in all likelihood, you’ve sampled the fun. The Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems are simple and sweet. My son was hooked on them for many years. I introduced him to Willems' pigeon books ...
Done is Better than Perfect with Chatbooks by Zoe Richmond
January 30th, 2017
New Year’s Resolution #137 – Finish kid’s scrapbook. I started “scraping” back in early 2000s when I moved to Central Illinois and realized one had to find indoor activities to stay sane during the winter months. It was a way to showcase my creativity, hoping some day to share my ...
