Happy Birthday Bear
My oldest not-so-little-anymore lady turns 7 years old today, at 12:14pm officially. Here she is through the years. Happy 7th Birthday, Bear.
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Meet the Mouse – A Quick & Funny Story
The Bear has gotten a lot of ink – both digital here on OWTK and in the pages of Time Out New York Kids Magazine (she co-authored two articles with me last year). It’s time you meet the Mouse. Here’s a quick, funny story from, and about, my youngest daughter. […]
OWTK's Helpful Ideas / Parenting Blog
OWTK’s Helpful Ideas – #4
Smack me silly and call me Francine, but I can draw a perfectly straight line between: INQUISITIVE & OBSERVANT CHILD INTELLIGENT & THOUGHTFUL ADULT A BETTER WORLD With that in mind, I offer to you OWTK Helpful Idea #4 – Learning Opportunities Abound (Preschool Edition)! Are you looking for creative […]
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OWTK’s Helpful Ideas – #3
OWTK’s Helpful Ideas #3 – Improving Restaurant Kid’s Menus As much as I love cooking, I luuuuuv dining out. There is, after all, only so much I can do in my kitchen: Pan sauces, sorta. Succulent scallops, iffy. Apple cider doughnut bread pudding, not a chance. Plus, I’m always up […]
OWTK DVD REVIEWS / Parenting Blog
I’m Sorry Huckle
A couple months back, in OWTK’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide, I wrote this: I’m not the biggest fan of [Richard] Scarry’s books. Today I’d like to formally apologize to Richard Scarry, to the good, um, people of Busytown, and yes, even to the toothbrush, corn on the cob, and hammer […]
Parenting Blog
The Transformation
I’m in the midst of the most exciting period in a young child’s life. There’s this moment sandwiched between the whiny baby years and the growing maturity & burgeoning independence of the grade school years. I call it the Transformation. It’s the stage of a child’s life when they begin […]
Hodgepodge / Parenting Blog
A Mixed Year
My 2010 can easily be divided into 2 parts. There’s the 1st one, from 12/30/09 to early June 2010. I was eating right, exercising regularly, losing lbs at an amazing pace without any magic tricks or pills. I felt great. I felt like I had done it, kicked my bad […]
Parenting Blog / Philly
Merry Christmas, from OWTK & Harry the K
Sweet Baby Jesus, where has this video clip been all my live-long-days? Never thought I’d be crying on Christmas Eve, but alas I did. I love you Harry Kalas. Enjoy the Hall of Fame, Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster recite “Twas the Night Before Christmas”: Merry Christmas to you and yours. May […]
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