By Renee Sullivan, parent coach to moms in NYC and director & founder of babybites support groups What do you miss from your pre baby days – Sleeping in? Impromptu evenings out? Relaxing vacations? Making sure we get our much-needed breaks to do something nice for ourselves is of utmost importance in order to be a […]
Category: Moms
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Healthy Child, Healthy World: Greening Our Children
By Leslie Blaustein, mother of Josh Set among the trees and the babbling brooks at The Greenwich Hyatt, Mount Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center held a conference on Monday, May 9, 2011, in effort to raise awareness and provide each of us with the necessary tools for protecting our children against environmental threats to their […]
Parenting Lessons from Grandparents
Hi Everyone! It is often the people that have been parents the longest that have the most to teach us on how to be “better” parents. That is why I am thrilled that we will be featuring regular blog posts written by grandparents. Laura’s mom, Dahlia, recently wrote a post on balance and my father-in-law, […]
Advice from a Mom’s Mom: Balancing Work and Family
By Dahlia Peyser, Laura’s mom It is a beautiful, warm day so you go to the park. There is a seesaw and you sit on one end of it. A sumo wrestler comes along, bows and sits on the other end of it. You fly up; he crashes down. You motion for him to move […]
Parenting and The Blame Game
Hi Everyone! I was somewhat prepared for the emotional extremes of new motherhood and yet was completely flabbergasted that these emotional extremes would also affect and be affected by my marriage! I have known my husband since we were both 18 years old and therefore was so surprised at the strain having children placed on […]
Parenting: Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride!
Hi Everyone! When my boys were young, people used to say to me, “Enjoy it now, they’ll be grown before you know it.” I was so sleep deprived, spit-up covered, emotional and overwhelmed that at the time, I never really knew what that meant. In fact, I often felt just the opposite – that I […]
Teachers and Education
Hello Everyone! “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William A. Ward Let’s honor our children’s outstanding teachers this week by nominating a teacher you know for New York Family’s Blackboard Awards. “The blackboard awards honor local teachers from all educational communities-public, private, charter, and parochial-and […]
Disney World Tips (that have nothing to do with what rides to go on)
By Heather Ouida, owner of babybites & kiddybites Let’s talk Disney World. I know I have written about Disney before, but I have been asked to give a few more pointers for all those families and mom bloggers heading down there next week. I know that many people like to give advice on what age […]