Young Child
How To Get Into the Back-to-School Swing
Easy steps to remove the stress associated with back-to-school and rest assured that your children are well prepared for a healthy and productive year ahead.
Young Child
5 Steps to Arming Your Child With Street Smarts
Basic and invaluable advice for parents on kids’ personal safety.
Baby
How to Get Rid of a Pacifier and Other Such Stuff That Requires Consistency
Is pacifier disposal one of your parenting New Year’s Resolutions? How’s it going? Need ideas? You’ve come to the right place!
Parenting
How to Keep Everyone Happy At the Grocery Store
Shopping for the big Super Bowl Party on Sunday? Check out these 5 practical tips to keep you and the kiddos happy at the grocery store.
Young Child
How to Preschool Your Child at Home
Remember that you’re trying to teach your preschooler that learning can be fun, not to qualify him for Mensa.
Activities
How to Entertain Your Kids for Free
Whether the economy is bad or not, there is no reason to have to break the bank to have fun with your kids. Check out these ideas for free fun with kids!
Big Kid
How to Keep a Happy Household During Your Teen’s College Search
The college search season is upon us. Here are some secrets from a former associate dean of admissions on how to keep your household happy during this time.
Activities
How to Introduce Music to Your Child
Introducing music to your child is key to building memories in life with your child. Here you’ll find some wonderful advice for bringing music into your home.
Big Kid
How To Be A Cool Twilight Mom
Finally you and your tweens and teens have something to talk about. Learn how not to screw it up!
Parenting
The city or the suburbs: which is better for kids?
As readers of Finslippy probably know, Scott and I once lived in Brooklyn, where we wrestled with the nagging question: now that we’re a family, are we ethically and morally bound to live in the suburbs? It seemed to be a question that most people…
Parenting
When sacrificing for your kids does more harm than good
A friend of mine –let’s call her Julie—faced the following dilemma: she had organized a night out with her best friends, the first time they could all get together, without kids, in months. Her friends all being busy mothers, organizing that particular night took a…
Young Child
What do you do when your kid rejects a friend?
There comes an uncomfortable turning point in the parent/child relationship when the child realizes that he has opinions about whom he wants to befriend, and that his opinions do not necessarily jibe with his parents’. Usually, or at least over here in New Jersey (in…
Parenting
Television and your family: is it a problem?
Did you know that this week is National Turnoff Week? Neither did I. And did you know that it’s not a week to describe your turnoffs to your partner? (“Ear nibbling. The word ‘creamy.’ And, oh, that shirt that you think looks good on you.”)…
Toddler
When is it okay to lie to children?
“The Easter Bunny’s not real, right?” How do you handle these kinds of questions with your children? Do you think some kinds of lies are okay to tell?
Parenting
What lessons do you want to leave your children?
In September of 2006, Randy Pausch, a professor of computer sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is, plainly speaking, the worst kind to get: survival rates are extremely low, and the end usually comes within months of diagnosis. So…
Young Child
Kids and computers: is early exposure all that important?
The other day, my husband expressed his concern that Henry is, at the tender age of 5 and a few months, a computer semi-illiterate. Surprising as this may be for the child of two parents who are on the computer almost all the time, Henry…
Young Child
Boys on this side,girls on the other: is single-sex public education a good idea?
The New York Times magazine this week covered the single-sex public education movement. Of course single-sex education is nothing new—just ask parochial and private school students. But as stories crop up of how our school system fails boys and girls, the idea of segregating students…
Toddler
My Pink Heaven
Ladies, I have the perfect gift for the young, unformed girl in your life: Hasbro’s Rose Petal Cottage. The Rose Petal Cottage is advertised as part of the “Dream Town collection,” although there’s no other part of this “town” for sale. There are no other…
Baby
Baby Einstein no make smart? Uh oh.
This week, researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute sensed that parents were starting to feel good about themselves again. Luckily they’re putting a stop to that, with the announcement that Baby Einstein HAS RUINED CHILDREN EVERYWHERE. Okay, not that….
Parenting
The only possible explanation.
A mother and her son were booted off a plane after a flight attendant became upset when the 19-month-old kept saying “Bye, bye plane” as the aircraft prepared for liftoff. … “‘It’s called Baby Benadryl,’” Penland said the attendant told her, suggesting she give her…