Can you believe the summer is over? This weekend is our last hurrah and we plan on hitting the Columbia County Fair to close the summer with a bang.
But we’re equally excited about next week. The first week of school for NYC public school students and my son’s first day of big kid school. We’ve […]

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I culled through the blogosphere looking for the best back to school guides and bring you the best of 2007 blogging back to school guides. Here’s where you’ll find the best of what kids going to school need in NYC and beyond.
Best Style: Cool Mom Picks wins hands down for having the coolest, well, […]

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Last year at this time you may have been wracked with anxiety about finding your child the right preschool or elementary school. Now all of that is behind you and next week or soon there after your kid or toddler will be starting school for the first time or starting at big kid school for […]

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Labor Day Weekend is the last weekend of the summer for NYC kids. Time for one last fling with fun. One last chance to lose yourself to the joys of summer. Labor Day Weekend is also the time for The Fair.
Just a short drive from NYC families can find themselves in 4H country. State and […]

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You may have noticed a new addition to the sidebar on Mommy Poppins last week. College Nannies and Tutors is running an ad on this site and offering a great deal exclusively to Mommy Poppins readers—and just in time for The Great Fall Baby Sitter Shuffle too. Even I am looking for a new baby […]

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Last week the iTunes store did a spotlight on Parenting Podcasts. Since then, I’ve been trying to decide if that meant that parenting has become cooler or if podcasting has become less cool. After long, hard philosophical soul-searching I’ve decided…the answer is both. (That was productive.)
Anyway, enough about me. What’s this mean for you? Well, […]

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There are certain products that come out that almost make me wish I had a baby again so that I could use them (A couple of minutes of thinking about a sweet baby quickly turn to the reality and I become sane again). The Kaboost portable chair booster is one of them. This cool, new, […]

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New York can be an overwhelming place. Once you have kids the overwhelmingness multiplies exponentially. This site aims to make NYC with kids more manageable, interesting and fun, but there are loads of other resources out there too. We’ve dug up some of the best books for living in NYC with kids, covering schools, activities, […]

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NYC kids have the opportunity to enjoy one of the foremost art museums in the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is right outside our doors, but a love of art museums doesn’t just grow naturally. It has to be nurtured. Dragging kids to the museum because we think it’s the right thing to do […]

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The current Mythic Creatures exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is loaded with the fantastic stuff that kids love. Whether kids appreciate the underlying premise of the exhibit, that there are natural explanations for all of the occurrences of mythical creatures throughout history, or they just enjoy checking out all the great displays […]

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