It’s Friday morning. We’re 1/2 way through our Sarasota sojourn. A bit of rain in the A.M. yesterday forced us to the Mote Aquarium and Marine Lab, a place we first visited a couple years ago.
The Mote seemed vastly improved/enhanced from the summer of ’06 but that is based on my...
May 23rd, 2008 | Travel | Read More
The Bear has been working through her new emotions, those of no longer being the constant star of a one-woman show, those of growing older and having additional responsibilities and those of coming to terms with the fact that this childhood thing is a process (for example, one cannot learn to read overnight...
May 19th, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
Over the past few months the Bear has been having a seriously difficult time making it through an entire day without peeing herself. Her underwear is almost always damp and is far too often soaked through to her tights (remaining concealed under her dress) by the time we bring her home from school. Considering...
May 14th, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
Congrats to AS of Artificially Sweetened. She has won the wonderful new Hayes Greenfield eco-friendly CD.
Stay tuned for more giveaways as we celebrate OWTK’s 2nd birthday…yep, the terrible twos are upon us!
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May 12th, 2008 | GIVEAWAYS | Read More
The international kid’s fest sponsored by the University of Penn kicked off this morning in Philadelphia. This homage to all things diverse and kid-oriented features four radically different acts – hip-hop spoken word poetry, Ecuadorian multi-instrumentalists, West African Kora music and...
May 7th, 2008 | So Much Time So Little To Do | Read More
OWTK is heading back to Rhode Island in early August for the Newport Folk Festival! Long time readers of Out With The Kids may recall that we’ve taken the Bear to a pair of Newport Folk Fests in her young life (at age 5 months and then again at age 1 1/2). Back in 2006 I wrote pretty extensively...
May 3rd, 2008 | Travel | Read More
My lack of kid coverage for this evening means I won’t be at STINK in Brooklyn. My first “industry” event invite and I’m forced to turn it down. Bummer, because the lineup for this year’s soiree is packed with terrific kid’s acts like Hayes Greenfield (whose “Music...
May 3rd, 2008 | kid's music reviews | Read More
New Jersey became one of only three states to offer family medical leave today when Gov. Corzine signed the long-awaited Family Leave Insurance bill today. As I discussed in a previous post, the United States severely lacks the focus on the family unit that other countries, like Canada and most European...
May 2nd, 2008 | Parenting Blog | Read More
