Denise Schipani / 18 Comments / exercise, kids & snacks, kids and sports /
Last week, I took the boys, as usual, to piano lessons, which take place at our piano teacher’s house. Over the years we’ve been going, the kids’ lesson times have changed — we’ve been there on Fridays before dinner, Wednesdays immediately after school, and now, midday on Saturdays. While one of them practices in the […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / discipline, family life, kids and food, kids and sports /
Since my last post was a sort of farewell (“here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?”) to August, I thought I’d check in with an I-love-September post. School has started. Despite a first September week plagued by high humidity and rain, it’s now my favorite, most energizing, soul-pleasing (not to mention hair-pleasing) weather of the year. […]
Denise Schipani / 18 Comments / celebrity parents, in the news/media, kids and sports / Aly Raisman, London 2012 Olympics, Olympic gymnasts, Raisman parents /
Did everyone see this clip, of the parents of U.S. Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman? They are not just feeling what most parent would feel while watching their child compete, at any level: the sense that you hope like hell that she won’t fall/that he’ll save the goal/that she makes the point. No, Mr. and Mrs. […]
Denise Schipani / 21 Comments / childhood obesity, exercise, kids and food, kids and sports / ban on large-size sodas, Daily Show, Gatorade, HBO, Jon Stewart, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, The Weight of the Nation /
I have never had a giant-size or super-size or Big Gulp size soda. In point of fact, I’ve had almost no regular (as in, non-diet) soda in my life, apart from a span between about age 12, when I suddenly decided I liked grape and orange soda or root beer, in cans served up out […]
Denise Schipani / 21 Comments / family life, humor, kids and sports, modern families / extra-curricular activties for kids, piano lessons, soccer /
My sons don’t do a lot. That is, they don’t do a lot of extra-curricular activities, at least not by today’s standards. Both boys play soccer (using the word “play” loosely here; James may end up being more instinctively athletic, but rest assured no one in this house is going to college on a sports […]
Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / babies, exercise, family life, kids and sports / Baby Goes Pro, Doreen Bolhuis, Gymtrix, New York Times, Tiger Woods /
I never have to wait around for very long, or dig very deep, to find something to be either baffled or outraged about when it comes to modern parenting. Yesterday’s crazy-making dose came in the form of a New York Times article about sports for babies. Yes, I meant to write “babies.” The article opens […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / family life, kids and sports, other parents /
Just yesterday, on a fine, sunny Sunday afternoon, my husband and I were doing some weeding in our front yard. For us, “some weeding” means cursing and huffing and puffing our way through a summer’s worth of work. We are not natural gardeners, let’s just say, and combining that with a summer that was so […]