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The only thing to fear on Halloween is fear itself
BY LENORE SKENAZY “Trick or treat, trick or treat, give us something lethal to eat!” That’s not the actual rhyme, but from all the warnings about Halloween you just might think it was. Even the...
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The ‘You REALLY shouldn’t have!’ gift guide
BY LENORE SKENAZY November means December is around the corner, and December means it’s time to buy presents. Just not these. For the kids Anxious Barbie: This is a Barbie that prefers to stay in her...
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You gotta let ’em go to let ’em grow
BY LENORE SKENAZY Helicopter parents who hover over their kids are the most popular of punching bags. Remember the mom who sued her 4-year-old’s $19,000 a year pre-school because the kid was spending...
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Making sense of the senses
BY LENORE SKENAZY Birds do it, bees do it — but we don’t. See exceptionally well, that is. When bees look at a flower, they see it almost as a neon sign pointing “This way to the nectar!” The petals...
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Facing down the fear factor
BY LENORE SKENAZY Until the advent of photography, every time you witnessed something scary, it was in your neighborhood. A tiger sighting? Better watch out. Guy with a spear? Avoid. Your cousin...
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New Year’s resolutions for subway riders
BY LENORE SKENAZY As the new year kicks in, New Yorkers look mindfully inward and recognize, with much soul searching, the truth: The train is never coming. Got that? Never ever ever ever. It will...
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The fast, free way to help kids fight anxiety
BY LENORE SKENAZY It’s not your imagination. Kids are getting more anxious, depressed, and hypersensitive. A teacher in Education Week magazine wrote that, anxiety “has become the most significant...
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Teens behaving — very — badly
BY LENORE SKENAZY Dina Temple-Raston had a strange job. After any terrorist attack anywhere in the world, she’d fly out. She was National Public Radio’s terrorism gal. But after 10 years, she says, “It...
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A modern means for mourning
BY LENORE SKENAZY About 200 well-dressed, youngish people crammed into a bookstore in Dumbo to hear personal stories about that taboo topic that makes everyone uncomfortable: Death. Of parents,...
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Why college is a big waste of money
BY LENORE SKENAZY It was not a whole lot of fun to interview Bryan Caplan, as my husband and I have two kids in college right now and the bills just keep on coming. But Caplan is an academic I respect,...
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Talking toys are listening too
BY LENORE SKENAZY So your little girl’s about to have a birthday and you’re getting her a doll? Lovely! But remember: Today’s dolls are not the dolls of yesteryear. A recent article in the New York...
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Trauma can bring growth, as well as disorder
BY LENORE SKENAZY “I always thought if I lost a child, I wouldn’t be able to stop screaming,” Liz Alderman, a Westchester mom of three, told journalist Mark Miller. But then one of her children, Peter,...
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Utah is more progressive than New York
BY LENORE SKENAZY Oh, to be as ahead of the curve as… Utah! That state just passed the first-in-the-country Free-Range Parenting Law, based on the movement I founded, Free-Range Kids. The law...
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Meet the ‘hidden figures’ of fashion
BY LENORE SKENAZY “Who are you wearing?” That’s a question Oscar contenders answer easily — their designers are sometimes as famous as they are. But it wasn’t always so. For instance, have you heard of...
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Baby steps into the modern world
BY LENORE SKENAZY Babies haven’t changed much in about a million years. But how we view them, what we expect of them, and how we raise them is changing all the time and, in the process, changing us,...
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Once upon a moral panic…
BY LENORE SKENAZY Little Red Riding Hood went into the woods to take a basket of bread and jam to her ailing grandmother. On her way there she met a wolf, who asked where she was going and when Red...
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He planted the seeds of New York
BY LENORE SKENAZY Not too long ago, a guard scolded Victoria Johnson for poking around in the planters in front of Rockefeller Center. But the historian wasn’t doing anything wrong. She had simply come...
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How to play back in the day
BY LENORE SKENAZY It’s been a summer or two since kids suddenly burst outside in pursuit of virtual Pokemon. Now the question is how to get them outside again, considering the lure of all things...
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Think before you call 911 about that kid
BY LENORE SKENAZY Every couple of weeks I get an e-mail from someone time-stamped 2 or 3 am, because the sender can’t sleep. Here’s one that came three weeks ago, shortened a bit: “Dear Lenore: I am a...
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Beware the soccer-industrial complex
BY LENORE SKENAZY Why didn’t the American men’s soccer team make it to the World Cup finals … or even the semi-finals? Simple: Because kids in America grow up playing soccer in shoes. Oh, that’s not...
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