Parenting: Finally, two 8-year-olds give a full report from the nurse’s office on what it’s like to actually get a flu injection up your nose. Comments (2).
Smartmom: With both her kids pretty much abandoning her, Smartmom is throwing everything she has into her relationship with Ducky, her 5-year-old neice. Talk about a carousel of time! Comments (6).
Smartmom: They’ve been married for years, but Hepcat still doesn’t get it: Sometimes, you just have to say, “You know what, honey? You’re right.” Comments (8).
Smartmom: Smartmom’s supposed to be on Block Island doing her annual writing week in paradise. But OSFO won’t go to camp as scheduled. What’s a mother to do? Comments (1).
Parenting: An elite private school’s expansion plans in Cobble Hill have renewed debate about its decision last year to cut a highly touted special education program. Comment.
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom lets OSFO ride the subway by herself — and she ends up in another county! Comments (3).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom celebrates Teen Spirit’s graduation (yes, graduation) from high school. The kid did it! Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom bemoans the Oh So Feisty One’s “virtual sleepover” with her pal, Luvbud. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Teen Spirit admits that he wants a party on his 18th birthday. Comment.
Dooley Noted: Our kids music, mime and puppetry reviewer checks out another installment of CIRCUSundays at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Hepcat takes Teen Spirit to the David Byrne show in Prospect Park for some surprise bonding. Comment.
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom tries to help a friend with a troubled teen. Comments (3).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom takes a course on raising “sex-positive” kids. Could she finally become better at talking to her kids? Maybe next week. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom deals wit memory and loss a year after the death of her dad. Comments (2).
Parenting: Fantasia, the beloved albino Burmese python at the Children’s Museum, celebrated her 15th birthday this weekend — and was promptly rolled out to her full length for the first time in years. Comment.
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on the award-winning BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom shows the positive side of life without kids. Comments (2).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom says she has no problem with a new bar-restaurant across the street from PS 107 in Park Slope. Comments (6).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom examines what it takes to be a good mother (believe it or not, she is one!). Comment.
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom recalls a playground fight and how her reaction was straight out of the Broadway show, “God of Carnage.” Comments (1).
Dooley Noted: The world’s foremost authority on puppetry, kids music and mime is back with a rave review for “The Colonists” at the Brick Theater. Comment.
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom complains that she’s not a bad enough mother to get in on the latest publishing trend: memoirs and confessions from “bad” parents. Yep, she missed the boat again. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom bemoans how little foreign travel her kids have done and realizes who’s to blame: she is. It’s not just the economy, stupid! Comments (4).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom looks back on a topsy-turvy 18 years for Teen Spirit as her first child becomes a man. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom calls in a handyman when Hepcat could have easily done the work himself. Comments (2).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, our Smartmom comes down with the flu and her whole family gets sick. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, our Smartmom realizes that she’s not so smart after all. Who goes on a trip with four tweens yet fails to bring a Band Aid? Comments (3).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, the Oh So Feisty One delivers the last word: She doesn’t mind that Smartmom writes about her in public. So there! Comments (20).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, our columnist takes stock on Valentine’s Day and decides that marriage is tough, but she still loves her Hepcat. Comments (4).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom Day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, our columnist reacts to the condemnation of her as a bad mom. Comments (31).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom Day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, our columnist gets criticized for writing about her kids — but it’s her writing, and her kids, so buzz off! Comments (19).
Parenting: A Brooklyn Heights restaurant has gone from kid-loving to kid-charging overnight, proving once again that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Comments (2).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom says her family is revolting — revolting against her column, that is. Comments (10).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom says she’s not worried about the Great Depression of 2009 — because living on less has been her lifestyle for years. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom and clan try to get back to their old routines after a long holiday. Comments (1).
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, it’s a very special Smartmom as the family treks to Hepcat’s ancestral farm in California. Comment.
Parenting: A renowned special education pre-school in Cobble Hill threatened that was facing imminent closure has been saved — albeit temporarily. Comments (1).