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‘The Syndrome’ shakes up ‘shaken baby’ laws
BY LENORE SKENAZY On Saturday night at Cinema Village on E. 12st Street I met Marine Sgt. Aaron Rasheed. He was up from Virginia with his wife and three young children, including baby Elijah, who cried...
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You think YOUR apartment is small?
By Lenore Skenazy Most people moving to the Upper West Side don’t expect to live in a mansion with a pool in the back. But neither are they jonesing to live in an apartment the size of a 2001 Honda...
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What did YOU do for Lumpy Rug Day?
BY LENORE SKENAZY There are now 34 holidays on which New York City suspends its street-cleaning parking rules, including Ash Wednesday, Asian New Year, Eid al-Adha, and Diwali. That’s quite the holiday...
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Sharing lessons from her local swami
BY LENORE SKENAZY When he was 19, Richard Slavin, a nice Jewish boy from the suburbs of Chicago, went backpacking in Europe for two months. “Hey,” I told him. “I have a son about to do the same thing.”...
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Kids can play with hammers and saws on Governor’s Island
BY LENORE SKENAZY New York kids are about to get dirty, frustrated, bruised, and tired. And soooooooo happy. This Saturday, a brand new but already cluttered and chaotic “adventure playground” is...
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My summer to-do list
BY LENORE SKENAZY It’s, like, soo much fun getting ready for the summer. Here’s my to-do list: • Get new bathing suit. • Come on. Who am I kidding? Get out old bathing suit. Ignore the fact it predates...
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A stranger in a strange land
BY LENORE SKENAZY Solomon Feuerwerker grew up as an alien. Not “alien” as in “illegal immigrant.” Alien as in someone from another planet. That planet was Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While many people in...
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Gorilla Mom versus Alligator Dad
BY LENORE SKENAZY There was an outpouring of online sympathy for the parents of the little boy killed by an alligator at a Disney resort in Orlando last week, which just goes to show that sometimes the...
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Hosting an exchange student is its own reward
BY LENORE SKENAZY What is it like to have two teenage boys you never met before move in and stay for the whole school year? Funny you should ask, as the two boys we’ve had living with us for the past...
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Those other July holidays
BY LENORE SKENAZY Feeling a little down because the big July Fourth holiday is already behind us, with nothing to show for it but leftover red, white and blue frosted cupcakes? (And isn’t blue frosting...
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What’s on the menu for Generation Z
BY LENORE SKENAZY You can tell a person’s age by his teeth. No, not by whether they’re missing or yellowed (or, if they’re really old, wooden!). They key is what the teeth are sinking into. “Generation...
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Pokemon Go fear-mongers spoil the fun
BY LENORE SKENAZY By now, even if you have not yet played Pokemon Go, you are more aware of it than your own breathing. You have read that the app has been more downloaded than any other app, ever, and...
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Don’t go postal over mail-order brides
BY LENORE SKENAZY Years ago, when Marcia Zug read a GQ magazine article about mail-order brides, she was revolted. A high-flying New York City photographer, fed up with all the demanding models he was...
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Comedy doesn’t have to be tasteful — just allowed
BY LENORE SKENAZY Just a few weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Gilbert Gottfried took to the stage of the Friar’s Club and explained he had to leave early to catch a plane to California. “I...
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Don’t catch Guv’s ‘fear Pokemongering’
BY LENORE SKENAZY Our governor wants us to panic about a problem that does not exist: Sex offenders preying on kids playing Pokemon Go. About a week ago, state Sens. Jeff Klein (D–Bronx) and Diane...
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Now college kids need ‘adulting’ classes
BY LENORE SKENAZY Kids will start leaving for college during the next few weeks, and it’s nice — or maybe just weird — to know that at least one university is offering a new class this fall in...
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Beware of back-to-school fear mongering
BY LENORE SKENAZY Can we please stop telling parents that it is normal to be terrified for even the shortest periods of time when kids are doing the most mundane of activities —such as walking to or...
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Study: People think working moms are ‘immoral’
BY LENORE SKENAZY The trailer for Halle Berry’s new movie shows beautiful Berry and her boy playing “Marco Polo” at a busy playground on a sun-dappled day. “Marco!” says Berry. “Polo!” chirps the boy,...
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The pest year of our lives
BY LENORE SKENAZY To everything there is a season, especially if you’re a household pest: A time for mice, a time for ants. A time to eat wood, a time to suck blood. And a time for all those roaches...
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LaGuardia’s Xanadu is just a shutte-bus ride away
BY LENORE SKENAZY A recent New York Times’ description of LaGuardia Airport bore a certain resemblance to the End Times. As Patrick McGeehan reported on one particularly terrible, very bad, no good day...
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