A bit of bad news for all parents who thought just lifting their kids or chasing them around the house: two-thirds of moms with young kids in a Central College survey weren’t getting enough exercise from parenting alone. Time to hit the pool after all.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Slings and Arrows
Like a lot of media people (and with apologies to Dadwagoneer Matt), I have a love-hate relationship with the New York Times. Its newsgathering ability is peerless, its authority as solid as any–and its news hole is so big that, at least once a day, there’s a story in its pages that makes you slap …
Tiny Art Director
A friend recommended the website Tiny Art Director to me today. Please, go check it out. First, I think the name is awesome, mostly because it reminds me of Tiny Elvis, which is just plain funny (what’s wrong, Tiny E?) Now, that’s comedy. But so is this site. Basically it’s all drawings by this illustrator, …
Thinking About Race in Pre-K
Last week I went to 112th and Lennox in West Harlem to see the universal pre-K program at P.S. 185. I’ve been looking at pre-K programs throughout uptown Manhattan ever since we discovered that we were too poor for private school but too rich for Head Start. It’s been a frustrating process; as I’ve written before, …