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• Paging NY State Education: It Snows There

  Did you know it snows in New York State?  That makes two of us. Now would someone send a memo to the New York State Education Department? For as long as I can remember (I've lived in this state on and off since birth - so we're going back a ways), parents have been pitching fits every January when the snow flies and the state administered final exams are canceled. The problem? The state refuses to give kids a make-up exam until June. Read More... Posted Jan 30 2009, 02:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: education, school, schools, tests, winter, snow day, snow, New York state, Jeanne Sager, make-up tests, final exams

• Babble Talk: When It's Too Cold to Play

  I wanted to be all huffy about Kim Brooks' essay about raising her son in cold climes this week. After all, Bad Parent: Cold Comfort points a finger at Northeasterners like me as "bad parents." But my righteous indignation falls woefully short. I hate the cold.   And before you get that Mommy tone of voice on and tell me "hate is a strong word, young lady," let me tell you - I REALLY hate the cold. What's more, I refuse to do fun things outside in the cold with my over-eager pre-schooler. Read More... Posted Jan 30 2009, 12:23 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: playtime, bad parents, New York, babble talk, asthma, Bad Parent, winter, cold, Jeanne Sager, new yorker, outside, northeast, winter woes

• Stuff You Never Thought You'd Say -- Winter Edition

  You know what I'm talking about. You have kids and things change. One of those things is the words that come out of your mouth. As in, "Did I just say that?" Here are some winter-related phrases that I never thought would occur to me at all, much less leave my mouth: Read More... Posted Dec 24 2008, 06:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, kids, parents, winter, Brett Singer, it takes a village, stuff you never thought you'd say, stuff your parents said, things you never thought you'd say

• 'Tis the Season

  If you celebrate Christmas, you have undoubtedly been spending your fair share of time in the mall recently. In our (comparably) affluent society, many people fear that Christmas has become just this: an overly commercial binge of materialism and decorating. Perhaps knowing the intentions behind the holiday rituals so many of us participate in can help us to feel more in the true spirit of the season this year. So, if you’ve ever wondered why we are rockin’ around a Christmas tree and decking the halls with boughs of holly, check out this enlightening post on CafeMom. Read More... Posted Dec 18 2008, 01:10 PM by editors with | with no comments Filed under: christmas, holiday, yule, celebrations, winter, traditions, gift, tree, pagans

• Nine Months After the Storm, A Baby Boom

  I’ve always wondered why people’s birthdays seem to cluster together. For example, in my family and friends there are, no lie, five birthdays between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve (ranging from my 95-year-old grandmother to my three-year old daughter), and I also know tons of September birthday people. So I giggled when I read this: hospitals along the Oregon coast experienced a bit of a baby boom this month – nine months after December storms ripped along the coast, causing power outages and shutting people in for days. One hospital Read More... Posted Oct 12 2008, 12:02 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: oregon, baby boom, winter, keeping warm, storms

• Yucky The Snowman

  This article might make you think twice the next time your kids stick out their tounges to catch snowflakes. According to a study released in the journal Science, the main thing that causes snow to stick together and be, like, snowy, is... bacteria. One scientist says that sometimes over 85 percent of the "ice nuclei" in snow is bacteria...   Read More... Posted Mar 04 2008, 03:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: science, germs, bacteria, gross, winter, snow, yucky, snowman

• Museum-Quality Kids?

  It's cold here, y'alls, like 13 degrees and windchill of negative jillion cold. This doesn’t especially bother me, since I am really pretty much of a lazyass and welcome any excuse to lounge on the couch under a blanket. My extremely active daughter, however, hates it because she's been cooped up inside a lot and can’t run off all that energy. We've been searching for things to do that she'll like.  One of my favorite places to hang when I am by myself or with other grownups is our local art museum – it's in a big huge beautiful building in one of my favorite neighborhoods in the city and has a really interesting, varied collection. It just recently reopened after a giant renovation and has been wildly popular. What it's not, especially, is kid-friendly, at least not my kid Read More... Posted Jan 31 2008, 06:08 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: museum, art, three-year-old, kids activities, winter

• Warmth and Kids

  If you consult most parentng books, you'll learn that you should dress your kids pretty much the way you are dressed; in other words, if you're comfortable in winter with one layer on, so will your kids be. Come to find out, that's not so true. At least, not in the world I've been in. Children actually have less capacity for keeping warm, especially babies, and also have less capacity for even knowing if they are cold. This was a bit of a hard concept for me to get, but once I started dressing my kids differently, I noticed a huge difference: Read More... Posted Nov 10 2007, 10:32 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: clothing, Waldorf, babies, warmth, woolens, winter