By Jessica Firger
Parenting: A mother is busted for taking pictures of her daughter in a city park. Out of control? Actually, yes.
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By Louise Crawford
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.
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By Thurston Dooley III
Dooley Noted: Our columnist gives a new kids’ book a lukewarm review.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom was fretting over her teenager’s long absences until she learned that it’s all normal.
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By Thurston Dooley III
Dooley Noted: There is a small miracle taking place on the Red Hook waterfront — CIRCUSundays at the Barge Museum.
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By Emily Lavin
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.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Scott Sager
The Dad: Our columnist thinks about his dad — and then ponders what his kid will think about him someday.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Thurston Dooley III
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.
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By Thurston Dooley III
Dooley Noted: Our critic reviews Dan Zanes’s new, all-Spanish LP.
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By Louise Crawford
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!
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Thurston Dooley III
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.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: A Memorial Day barbecue on Third Street brings it all home for Smartmom
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By Marie Cunningham
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.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom organizes her second “Edgy Moms” reading — and learns the greatest lesson of all: be edgy.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom’s Mother’s Day is jam-packed with mom on mom action.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom weighs in on actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany’s move from Park Slope to, gasp, Manhattan.
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By Thurston Dooley III
Parenting: Our critic gives Puppetworks’ “Pinocchio” a rave review — and his nose remains fixed in place.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom knows all about the Miley Cyrus debacle. After all, she has a 16-year-old with a self-induced crewcut.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom sees a recipe book — and it reminds her of her ever-tenuous feminism.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: With some parents letting their 9-year-olds on the subway — the subway?! — Smartmom considers getting the Oh So Feisty One a cellphone.
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By Emily Lavin
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.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: It’s a parenting columnist smackdown: Our Smartmom vs. Lenore Skenazy of the New York Sun.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom has to get rid of the big red chair — but, o, the memories!
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom still isn’t crying over the Oh So Feisty One’s imminent fifth-grade graduation. Oh wait, yes she is!
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom has a full house, thanks to all of Teen Spirit’s rocker pals sleeping over all the time.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Eliot Spitzer’s alleged prostitution habit has Smartmom wondering what it would take before she left Hepcat.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Can we please just end the Babeland controversy before it even begins?
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Mike McLaughlin
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.
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By Louise Crawford
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?
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Last week, Park Slopers were obsessed over which kids got into local private schools. Smartmom had this thought: Who cares?
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Our favorite son would never try such shenanigans if Hepcat were home. But Teen Spirit know that Smartmom is a world-class pushover.
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By Susan Rosenthal
Parenting: Things to do this week with your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
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.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom runs into an old mom friend — and the anxieties come back to her.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom’s kid is shopping for a middle school. This ain’t easy, folks.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Parenting: Park Slope kids writers swept — well, almost — the award ceremony at the American Library Association convention on Monday night.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Now that she’s 50 (yes, 50), Smartmom can either complain or take action. She’s choosing, well, both.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom learns to stop worrying and love panhandlers.
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