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The great Albert Einstein is quoted as saying: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Reading to your kids – especially when they are very young is good for so many reasons. It helps you bond with […]

Is your excitement for the coming of spring dampened not only by “April showers that bring May flowers” but also by the annual tradition of doing a good “Spring Clean”?  I don’t know about you but I am not a fan. And talk of it is everywhere!  I could barely believe it when I settled […]

What is that expression? If you want to keep the peace, never talk money, politics or religion. That might be a good rule for the work place and parties although if you are not talking about these things at home then where are you talking about them? But as the number of “interfaith” relationships increases, […]

Do you remember when the first of your siblings had a baby? My older sister was the first in my family and her pregnancy was a wonderful time. We rallied around her as a family as she prepared for her new arrival and my parents excitedly settled on their new names: Nana and Papa. What […]

Remember that book from the 1980’s called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? If you are not old enough to remember it (cough, cough), it was all the rage and essentially said that the world would be a much better place if we remembered some of the basic things we learned […]

Over the past hundred plus years, Nana and Papa have gotten farther and farther away. In 1916, grandparents were very likely to live in the same area, if not the same home, as their grandchildren. In 2016, grandparents are not only not likely to live in the same home as their grandkids but might not […]

Luckily I do not travel for work as much as I used to but there was a time when I caught three or four flights in a week. I used to say that, for me, taking an airplane was like catching a bus. Travel can be exciting but when you have kids, it can also […]

Whether it’s a holiday, PA day or a “too cold to go outside today” day, there are lots of ways to keep your kids busy when they are not in school. We have found that the best way to make these days fun – for the kids as well as for the parents, nanny or […]

Let’s dance! Put on your red shoes and dance the blues… Remember your first song – the song that opened your mind consciously to music? Mine was David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. I was just reminded of it recently with the news that Bowie’s creative genius had left us. And singing that song in my head […]

Psst… You. Yes, you!  It is time to sit down and listen to some hard truths. There are a few things your housekeeper would like you to know: 1 – I am not a mind reader! If you would like things done in a certain way, please don’t hesitate to say so. Your housekeeper wants […]

The other day, I was on Twitter and I was ‘tweeting’ with a woman who had some sage advice about how to deal with a cat that was peeing inappropriately. I, in turn, responded to her questions about the value of an iPhone over an android device. I decided to follow her and then checked […]

…Gone away is the bluebird… here to stay is a new bird…He sings a love song…as we go along…walking in a winter wonderland… Imagine yourself, bundled up, taking Fido out for a walk on a cold winter’s night, snow everywhere, whistling this classic winter theme song… it is all so idyllic! But is it ideal […]