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A new life for this work-at-home mom 28 Aug 2009 | 09:30 am
I became a mother almost four years ago in the second half of my 30s. This was long after I had crafted an identity for myself as a newspaperwoman devoted to her career. I wasn’t prepared for how prof...
Tips for that first Broadway play 21 Aug 2009 | 04:19 pm
On Wednesday night, we saw “The Little Mermaid” in New York. It was the Pumpkin’s first-ever Broadway play and it couldn’t have been a better introduction to the experience. Not only does she know the...
Telling the kids when recession hits home 21 Aug 2009 | 05:16 am
Not a pleasant thought but a very real one these days. The truth is unemployment is soaring and the economy continues to sputter. Every job, including our own, is facing looming layoffs and perhaps s...
Consumer Reports has healthy advice for parents as kids head back to school 18 Aug 2009 | 02:41 pm
Consumer Reports has rounded up an array of back-to-school tips on its health blog. Everything from “eat your veggies” to “wash your hands” gets covered. While you’re there, check out the rest of Cons...
How do you rate the movie ratings system? 15 Aug 2009 | 09:52 am
When we went to see “Wall-E” last summer, my daughter, then 3, cried piteously when Wall-E’s cockroach buddy was left behind as the spaceship blasted off. She was so sensitive—and she loves bugs—that ...
‘Coraline’ and the distant parent 5 Aug 2009 | 06:36 pm
Watching “Coraline” on DVD this past weekend, I cringed and even paused the movie to turn to my husband and say: “I hope that’s not how the Pumpkin sees me.” If you’ve watched the movie, you are famil...
When kids die 4 Aug 2009 | 01:00 pm
It’s been maybe 12 years since I wrote about Shayna Bryant. Shayna was tiny, and by the time she died she was painfully emaciated and brutally abused. I was working for the New York Daily News, cover...
Bored? Here’s something (incredibly ambitious) to do with the kids 4 Aug 2009 | 10:26 am
I think every parent and child should do one crazy, ridiculous gigantic project that will be so outrageous that for years and decades later the memory and story will be a family topic. Great for first...
One, two, five 22 Jul 2009 | 02:27 am
I got a bit nervous recently when a former colleague told me that her 16-month-old daughter was counting to 15 and could recite the alphabet. My son, a month older, knew the letter A and the number 5...
When do we walk on Saturn? 21 Jul 2009 | 01:43 am
I was 7 when the first moon walk took place. When the second one came around, I was in the second grade, and we all sat down in the hallway at school to watch the grainy image on a black-and-white TV....
