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• Are Pick-Up and Drop-Off Moms Killing the Environment?

  New York City is getting tough on going green. Their latest targets? Parents.  Moms and dads who leave their cars idling for more than one minute near New York City's public AND prive schools will be slapped with a $100 fine. Mark this on the calendar, because I don't say this much. Bravo Mayor Bloomberg. Now can we spread this around the country? Read More... Posted Feb 02 2009, 04:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: new york city, education, cars, school, schools, environment, vehicles, green, pollution, school buses, Jeanne Sager, trucks, buses, nursery school, pick-up and drop-off, emissions, passenger vehicles

• Et Tu, Scholastic?

  These two books came into the office the other day: The Girls’ Book of Glamour: A Guide to Being a Goddess  and The Boys’ Book of Survival: How to Survive Anything, Anywhere. Ha-ha, we thought, how retro and ironic and . . . OMG, THEY ARE TOTALLY SERIOUS. The jacket flap copy on the girls’ book: “Be confidant. Be glamorous. Be gorgeous . . . Be the goddess you were born to be!” On the boys’ book: “Be brave. Be prepared . . . Be a hero!” Read More... Posted Dec 17 2008, 11:11 AM by editors with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: harry potter, gender, girls, boys, books for children, sexism, glamour, survival, Scholastic, trucks, hermione granger, goddess, babble.com office, tutus

• 5 reasons it's a good thing I had boys

  I was going to say, "I'm glad I have boys" but that didn't sound quite right. That is, I would love girl-children just as much as I love my guys. But there are a few ways that having boys has made my life – mine, specifically – a little bit easier. Read More... Posted Aug 17 2008, 01:05 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, children, kids, television, Movies, games, video games, tv, music, mom, toys, Xbox, fathers, mothers, cartoons, girls, boys, film, transformers, hannah montana, Batman, Pink, Wii, dad, miley cyrus, billy ray cyrus, Nintendo DS, pokemon, lists, spiderman, playstation 2, xbox 360, ps2, Brett Singer, hulk, jonas brothers, playstation, ds, videogames, my little pony, the dark knight, boys will be boys, 5 things, girl stuff, trucks, psp, girl toys, boy stuff, 5 reasons, boy toys, putty in my hands