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Parenting

What’s wrong with this picture?

Parenting: A mother is busted for taking pictures of her daughter in a city park. Out of control? Actually, yes. Comments (5).

The end of the PS 321 line

Smartmom: Smartmom’s days are numbered at PS 321. After 11 years as a very involved parent at this illustrious school, she’s is about to say adieu. Comment.

Rain on ‘Parade’

Dooley Noted: Our columnist gives a new kids’ book a lukewarm review. Comment.

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

June 21, 2008

In fact, Teen Spirit needs his space

Smartmom: Smartmom was fretting over her teenager’s long absences until she learned that it’s all normal. Comments (3).

CIRCUS comes to town!

Dooley Noted: There is a small miracle taking place on the Red Hook waterfront — CIRCUSundays at the Barge Museum. Comments (1).

Graduation special!

Parenting: It’s that time of the year again, folks — graduation season has come and gone. But before we send the newly minted grads out into the real world (or, “The Real World” on MTV — filming next month on Willoughby Street!), let’s recap how our area’s major colleges and universities honored the class of 2008. Comments (1).

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Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

June 14, 2008

Father’s Day drive with daughter & dad

The Dad: Our columnist thinks about his dad — and then ponders what his kid will think about him someday. Comments (1).

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

Mo Willems has done it again

Dooley Noted: To the list of legendary couples in history — Antony and Cleopatra, Napoleon and Josephine, Felix and Oscar — beloved Park Slope kids scribe Mo Willems has added another: Elephant and Piggie. Comment.

June 7, 2008

¡Y tu Dan Zanes tambien!

Dooley Noted: Our critic reviews Dan Zanes’s new, all-Spanish LP. Comment.

Signed, sealed, but not delivered

Smartmom: It’s the first week in June and Smartmom still doesn’t know where the Oh So Feisty One will be going to middle school in September. And Smartmom is pissed! Comment.

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

May 31, 2008

Deedle Deedle Dees sing to Bridge

Dooley Noted: Our puppetry, juggling and mime critic reviews the Deedle Deedle Dees’ show on Sunday. Despite all the Ds, he gave it an A. Comment.

Third St is just a small town

Smartmom: A Memorial Day barbecue on Third Street brings it all home for Smartmom Comment.

Public School Pre-K-tastrophy

Parenting: The pre-kindergarten rejection letters are out — and some parents are fuming that their youngsters didn’t get the highly coveted slots, despite city policy to keep siblings in the same school. Comment.

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

May 24, 2008

Smartmom knows an ‘edgy mom’

Smartmom: Smartmom organizes her second “Edgy Moms” reading — and learns the greatest lesson of all: be edgy. Comment.

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

May 17, 2008

A day for all of her mothers

Smartmom: Smartmom’s Mother’s Day is jam-packed with mom on mom action. Comment.

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comments (1).

May 10, 2008

Jen and Paul: We hardly knew ye!

Smartmom: Smartmom weighs in on actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany’s move from Park Slope to, gasp, Manhattan. Comment.

No lie: This ‘Pinocchio’ rocks

Parenting: Our critic gives Puppetworks’ “Pinocchio” a rave review — and his nose remains fixed in place. Comment.

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Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

May 3, 2008

Miley and Teen Spirit shed things

Smartmom: Smartmom knows all about the Miley Cyrus debacle. After all, she has a 16-year-old with a self-induced crewcut. Comments (2).

Family calendar

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

April 26, 2008

Smartmom’s hankering to cook

Smartmom: Smartmom sees a recipe book — and it reminds her of her ever-tenuous feminism. Comment.

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

April 19, 2008

Is the OSFO ready for a cellphone?

Smartmom: With some parents letting their 9-year-olds on the subway — the subway?! — Smartmom considers getting the Oh So Feisty One a cellphone. Comment.

More kid’s stuff

Parenting: The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is still in the midst of its $46-million Rafael Vinoly–designed expansion — but the Crown Heights exploratorium is about to take the wraps off of an exhibit that will make grown-ups wish they were kids again. Comments (1).

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

April 12, 2008

Smartmom outsmarts Skenazy

Smartmom: It’s a parenting columnist smackdown: Our Smartmom vs. Lenore Skenazy of the New York Sun. Comments (1).

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

April 5, 2008

No one has dibs on ugly red chair

Smartmom: Smartmom has to get rid of the big red chair — but, o, the memories! Comment.

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March 29, 2008

Smartmom’s tears to flow

Smartmom: Smartmom still isn’t crying over the Oh So Feisty One’s imminent fifth-grade graduation. Oh wait, yes she is! Comment.

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Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

March 22, 2008

It’s a crowded house with our rockers

Smartmom: Smartmom has a full house, thanks to all of Teen Spirit’s rocker pals sleeping over all the time. Comments (1).

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Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

March 15, 2008

What are Smartmom’s dealbreakers?

Smartmom: Eliot Spitzer’s alleged prostitution habit has Smartmom wondering what it would take before she left Hepcat. Comments (1).

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

March 8, 2008

Grown-ups need their toys, too!

Smartmom: Can we please just end the Babeland controversy before it even begins? Comments (1).

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Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

March 1, 2008

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February 23, 2008

Parents win: Education Department agrees not to add charter school to Red Hook’s PS 15

Parenting: Falling to an aggressive political assault by parents, teachers and even the widow of a beloved former principal, the Department of Education caved this week, agreeing not to sandwich a charter school into Red Hook’s PS 15. Comments (5).

Being a good mom means being more than just not bad

Smartmom: Britney Spears is guilty of one egregious act of bad mommydom after another, yet we can’t get enough of her. What makes a good mom, anyway? Comment.

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

February 16, 2008

Private schools, public chatting

Smartmom: Last week, Park Slopers were obsessed over which kids got into local private schools. Smartmom had this thought: Who cares? Comments (1).

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

February 9, 2008

When the Hepcat’s away, Teen Spirit will play

Smartmom: Our favorite son would never try such shenanigans if Hepcat were home. But Teen Spirit know that Smartmom is a world-class pushover. Comment.

Family Calendar

Parenting: Things to do this week with your kids! Comments (1).

February 2, 2008

State of the Union: Kids are back in the ‘Hall’

Smartmom: The owner of Union Hall, the Union Street bocce bar popular with hipsters, rockers and new moms, has changed his mind after a week of criticism for his hastily announced “No kids allowed” policy. Comments (12).

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

January 26, 2008

An Old Mom Friend stirs mom nerves

Smartmom: Smartmom runs into an old mom friend — and the anxieties come back to her. Comment.

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Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

January 19, 2008

Oh So Feisty One reaches ‘middle’ age

Smartmom: Smartmom’s kid is shopping for a middle school. This ain’t easy, folks. Comments (1).

Park Slope kids authors kick butt at convention

Parenting: Park Slope kids writers swept — well, almost — the award ceremony at the American Library Association convention on Monday night. Comments (1).

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Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

January 12, 2008

Fifty is nifty if you’re ‘Smart’

Smartmom: Now that she’s 50 (yes, 50), Smartmom can either complain or take action. She’s choosing, well, both. Comments (2).

Family Calendar

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

January 5, 2008

Smartmom gives from the wallet this holiday season

Smartmom: Smartmom learns to stop worrying and love panhandlers. Comment.
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