When my kids were little and before we moved to the ’burbs, the Museum of Natural History on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was our home away from home. We were lucky. We lived just nine blocks from the museum, and we went there when it was too rainy, too cold, too hot, or just too […]
Today Is the Day That Everything Changes
Today is the first day of school, and I have a lot of…feelings. It’s nothing new, of course. Parents always experience an avalanche of emotions on this big day, and they range from anxiety to excitement, sadness to elation. I’m no different, though maybe a little more neurotic. But this year, I don’t know…it feels […]
Letting Kids Be Bored Is Anything But Boring
“I’m bored.” Two little words that strike fear in the hearts of parents everywhere. There is little worse than a super whiny child who’s just soooooo bored. He wants TV! He wants video games! He wants a plan! He wants you to entertain him! I’m not going to lie: I give in…a lot. I certainly […]
9 Mom Fails That Are Actually Mom Wins
It says a lot about the state of modern parenting when it’s hard to get to the end of the day without feeling like you failed at something. And while we all laugh at mom-fail memes in the light of day, even the most minor mom fails have a way of feeling enormous and all-consuming […]
The Knack Pack: The Solution to Carrying All Your Kids’ Stuff
There’s one thing that people didn’t warn us about before we had kids: all the stuff. Oh, sure, we knew about it in some aspects of parenting life: We saw the ever-growing list of must-haves on a registry and did our best to pare that down, and of course, we knew about the perils of […]
At What Age Do Kids Officially Think Their Moms Are Embarrassing?
“Mom, my friends think kisses are kind of embarrassing.” That was the opening statement lobbed at me by my 7-year-old son the other night after bathtime. I laughed a little and asked, “Really? Whose kisses do they think are embarrassing?” “Their moms’. You know, when their moms kiss them.” I waited for the follow-up, expecting […]
How to Talk to Your Kids About Momo and Other Very Real Dangers
Unless you’ve been hiding under a social-media rock for the past 48 hours—in which case, I am so jealous—you’ve been subjected to the waking nightmare of Momo. You know, that horribly creepy female “character” with the bugged-out eyes and gruesome smile that’s been infiltrating kids’ YouTube videos. She is every parent’s worst nightmare, since her […]
The Best Beauty Products for Tired Moms (Who Don’t Want to Look Tired)
Before I had kids, I treated my beauty regimen as a semi-religion. Protecting my skin was super important to me, and I worried that if I messed it up now, I would be in for a lifetime worth of repercussions. I told myself that having kids wouldn’t change that: I would always make the time […]
The One Thing I’m Super Strict About with My Kids
Kids want what they want, when they want it, wherever they feel like having it. They’re adorable little ids running wild, giving no real thought to anyone else in that moment. That description, with its distinct lack of empathy, makes them sound like tiny sociopaths, but when they’re very young, they’re not doing anything wrong […]
More Friends and More Fun—with Less Work
One of the best things we can do is to get together, gab and relax with friends. We all know this, but somehow along the course of our regular weeks that get tangled up with work and kids, getting together with friends—the kind of friends you want to see, not have to see—tends to fall […]
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