The baby and young child years are one thing. What happens when you’re always at work, and you have an older child that needs someplace positive to go after school for homework help and sports… Read More »Pre-teen/Teen Brooklyn After-School Program Offerings
I recently revisited the “Lonely Doll” books of Dare Wright, this time as a mother. I used to love them so much as a little girl, and have keen memories of the black and white… Read More »The Lonely Doll Books of Dare Wright: Creepy or Cool?
Our Philly Editor shares her review of Epic! a digital reading library of over 10,000 books for kids. Read to the end for an awesome promotion for our A Child Grows readers! — I haven’t… Read More »Get Epic!: 10,000 Children’s Titles at Your Fingertips
With the commercialization of Christmas and the entire holiday season, it is easy for our kids to misunderstand the real meaning of the holidays. Despite the fact that it is easy to spoil kids by… Read More »5 Valuable Lessons Children Can Learn During Holidays
Ginger Bakos of Dinosaurs are NOT Food addresses the “good food” vs. “bad food” question. Is it a myth? Read on. — Of course, if you were to Google “Good food bad food”, you would come… Read More »There is No Such Thing As Good Food/Bad Food
Department of Education applications for Kindergarten are open NOW, December 7th through January 15th. Apply HERE! In New York City, children are eligible to apply to kindergarten in the year they turn five. Each winter,… Read More »Kindergarten Applications Start Today!
Life moves quickly. It seems to get even faster as you get older. What once were long summer days of rolling in the grass have somehow become endless “to do “ lists. Once upon a… Read More »Stepping into Self-Acceptance
How Partners Can Get On The Same Parenting Page You meet someone. The ONE. You fall in love. You think, here it is. The dream. The moment. Your are a perfect union. But ya know… Read More »First Comes Love. Then Comes Marriage. Then Comes Baby In The Baby Carriage. Um, NOW WHAT!?!
The Brooklyn Birthing Center has opened NYC’s first donor milk depot. As many know, breast milk can give fragile babies a healthier start in life. They have an affiliate milk bank that they are partnering… Read More »The Importance of Milk Banking
Family therapist Kathryn Snyder discusses toddler brain development and helps shed some like on how this informs their (ahem) behavior. Hint: It’s not you, it’s me. —– Imagine if you will, you are in a faraway land… Read More »Parenting in the Land of Wild Beasts and Never Ending Stories