Right before the Thanksgiving break, the New York City schools held parent teacher conferences. Over the years, I have looked on parent teacher conferences with a tad bit of trepidation. I certainly never expect to hear anything but positive things which I do. That said, no one is perfect and everyone and I mean everyone [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is on track to be one of the highest grossing movies of all time (And it is fantastic by the way.) My daughter will not be going to see it for three reasons, she has only see the first movie, I think it’s inappropriate for an 8 [...]
Super Bowl losers don’t get to go to Disney World only the winners and sure it’s nice to be nominated, but we only remember Oscar winners And why? Because life is full of disappointments and someone has to lose. In theory, it’s nice that no one wants to hurt a six year old’s feelings. hence [...]
Once there was a chair (click here to read the history of the chair) that kept me up at night because it was filled with papers, magazines and god knows what and now it has been turned into a fort for an eight year old girl. I sucked it up, took a weekend and [...]
Stephen King has Christine and I have the Chair. No, my living room chair is not possessed but I feel it has possessed me and is slowly driving me nuts. Yes, a chair, this chair. This simple pull out chair from Target. Can you believe it’s from Target? Of course, you can’t believe it because [...]
At our annual check-up, our pediatrician, Dr. M reminded us that she has been seeing my daughter since she was 22 days old. This really hit me. Adoptions and pediatricians are a tricky thing. Way before I got the call that my two and half year wait to become a mother was over, I went [...]
Since my late mother’s family still lives in Japan (they are fine, by the way), I have had to deal with multiple questions from daughter about Japan and the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami. Below are some suggestions on how to talk to your child about the situation in Japan but also with tragedies and [...]
At some point, death and dying is a topic of worry for children but I did not think that I would have to deal with so soon. For the last few months, my daughter randomly breaks down into tears worrying that I will die. This obsession started soon after I received a late night phone [...]
They say that it can take multiple tries to break a habit. If that is the case, then I am in big trouble. My daughter is now in second grade. In that time period, she has had five school breaks, multiple three-day weekends and of course, summers off from school. Instead of sending her to [...]
