Dear Readers, The Mommybites staff informs me that my 11/27/12 column, “Grandparents Grapple with Question: Is Santa Claus Real?” generated a lot of interest. Several readers said that it doesn’t really matter what the grandparents think, should their grandson raise the Santa Claus question because, as expressed by one reader: “The question poses a bigger problem […]
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What to Do with Old Plastic Toys?
Ah, the holidays. It’s a time of family, food, vacations and gift giving. As we come off a week or so break from school and are trying to get our lives back into some sort of order, we often take stock of the kids’ loot they received over the holidays. Many times there is tons […]
Becoming Your Child’s Best Advocate: 10 Tips
Our children are our everything. Sometimes they are hurting, sometimes they are sad, sometimes they need a parent to speak up for them when they don’t know how. It’s a new year and you might be wondering, “How can we advocate for our kids in a positive way?” 1. Never… scream, yell or shout when […]
Diary of a New Green Mom: Veritey Changed What’s Under My Sink
Back in August, I shared with you my thoughts on Toxic Baby, the awesomely frightening and ultimately empowering film by Penelope Jagessar Chaffer. It made me change the way I evaluate, buy, and use all the products in our household. One critical lesson from the film and the movement to clean up our chemical-infused environment […]
Labor and Delivery: Building Your Tool Kit
When I teach my Prenatal yoga classes, I like to stress the importance of creating what I like to call “the tool kit for labor and delivery.” This is a collection of reliable, proven pain management techniques the laboring mother can call upon to use as she needs. Not too long ago, I was explaining […]
A Child with Chronic Illness Goes to School
Children all over the United States go to school with a chronic illness. Each year in this country, approximately six million children – ranging from newborn to seventeen years old – are hospitalized for many different conditions. It is estimated that 13-17% of the children in the US have a chronic illness. (Stein, R.E.K., Silver, […]
Keeping My Child from Acting Spoiled
You asked and you shall now receive. It’s only fair for us to share all of this stored up knowledge about big kids and their physical, social and emotional development as they grow. We now will answer, in a very public forum, all of those burning questions about big kids – children five and up. […]
Our Holiday Wishes for You
Sometimes there just are no words. As moms (and dads), there is a thread of connection and understanding that binds us all, no matter if our kids are at preschool on the Upper East Side of NYC or learning how to count in a partially-thatched mud hut in Zimbabwe. There are no words to describe […]