All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

May, 2012

It’s ‘Time’ to talk about intimacy

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: This week, our fearless mom says the boobs at Time magazine opened up a can of worms with their cover featuring a mom breast-feeding a toddler, but the issue is intamacy — not when to get your kid off the teat. Comment.

Mom down! What’s a family to do?

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: This week, our fearless mom throws out her back! Will dad and the kids survive? Comments (1).

April, 2012

Who knew you could learn so much from a fortune cookie

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: This week, our fearless mom learns that big messages come in small packages. Comment.

It’s hard to be humble when you’re great

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: This week, our fearless mom yells some sense at her overly confident son. Comment.

March, 2012

What should I tell my kids to do with their lives!

B Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: This week our columinst talks herself through whether or not she should tell her boys to pursue their dreams, or get a haircut and get a real job. Comment.

My kids think I’m boring!

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: This week, our columnists comes to terms with the fact that her pre-teen sons don’t find her very interesting. Well, until late in the day. Comments (1).

Different, but the same

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: Our parenting columnist muses on the differences and similarities of communities while she visits her sister and brother-in-law on their RV compound in rural Arizona. Comments (2).

February, 2012

Gay or straight is OK by me

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: Our parenting columnist addresses the subject of sexuality with her kids — and ponders her free-wheelin’ parenting style. Comment.

It’s the end of the world! So what?

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: Our parenting columnist vows to enjoy life — and that includes eating lots of red meat — before the world allegedly ends. Comment.

January, 2012

Double the love!

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: Our columnist explores the inevitable parenting conundrum of how to express her love for her children equally, so nobody feels the other is loved more. Comment.

New Year’s resolutions: Let your kids make their own!

By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Parenting: It’s 2012 now, and time to start making good on those New Year’s resolutions — but don’t confuse goals for yourself with goals for your kids; let them be themselves. Comment.
← Previous year

Tomasos Restaurant
Wedding Guide

Links