I don’t usually publicly brag about my daughters but I am making an exception for this. Thursday, April 29th was Poem in Your Pocket Day in NYC. All the children in my daughters’ school carried poems in their pockets and read them aloud to each other, to teachers, to administrators and to whomever would listen. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’s books’
My Daughters are Poets (and now everyone knows it)
Posted in books, education, kids, life in nyc, tagged children's books, nyc public schools, parenting, poetry, twins on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Sex Talk? There’s No App For That
Posted in books, education, kids, life in nyc, parenting, politics, review, tagged children's books, children's health, family, kids, nyc public schools, parenting, planned parenthood, puberty, sex, sex education, sex talk on April 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“Mommy, what happens if you’re pregnant and you don’t want to keep the baby?” This is the question my seven year-old daughter asked me first thing on a Monday morning a few weeks ago. It took me a minute to rouse my brain and get my head around what she was asking while the sun [...]
The Accidental Book Burning Mom
Posted in books, kids, nyc moms post, tagged anxiety, Bad Case of Stripes, children's books, David Shannon, panic attack, phobias on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let me start out by saying I LOVE BOOKS. I was the kind of kid who woke up on Saturday morning and didn’t emerge from my bedroom until the late afternoon because I was engrossed in Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. My family made pilgrimages from Brooklyn to Manhattan to go to the huge Barnes [...]
Little Co-op in the Big City
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged children's books, children's literature, gratitude, laura ingalls, laura ingalls wilder, little house on the prairie, pioneer, thanksgiving on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The words gratitude and thankfulness get thrown around a lot this time of year. My daughters are in first grade and once again they had to write down what they were thankful for and draw the requisite picture. They’ve been doing this since preschool and it doesn’t vary much – mommy, daddy, a toy, their [...]
Not Really Rosie
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged atlantic theater company, Carole King, children's books, children's literature, children's theater, Maurice Sendak, Really Rosie on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This past weekend I took my daughters to the Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Really Rosie. It was one of those moments you look forward to as a mother, when you get to take your kids to something that you loved as a kid and watch them fall in love with it too. They’d listened [...]
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