Denise Schipani / 16 Comments / kids & snacks, Uncategorized / kids' snacks, Target /
I love Target. If you know me, you know that already. If you know me really well, such as if you’re married to me, are my child, or are my friend on Facebook, you also know how floaty I’ve been feeling since a new, shiny-fresh Target has opened less than a mile from my home. […]
Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / kids & snacks, parenting in the media, summer / "the Care Package Wars", Bruce Feiler, candy in school, junk food, New York Times, Sealed With a Kiss, summercamp care packages /
Every so often, I read what I like to call a WTF article. You know the kind; you skim through it with your jaw pretty much on the table, then you read it more carefully and feel either depressed or outraged or just kind of deflated. Happens to me a lot. This week’s WTF article […]
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 / 21 Comments / family life, kids & snacks, kids and food, modern families, parenting in the media / drink pouches, Earth's Best Baby, food pouches, Gerber, Hain Celestial Group, Matt Richtel, Maureen Putman, Neil Grimmer, New York Times, Plum Organics /
Kids have been drinking out of pouches for a generation at least. It bears remembering that when many of us were in our juice-drinking days, juice boxes and pouches, as well as sippy cups, didn’t exist. Now, it’s more common in some circles for kids to drink out of so-called spillproof devices or disposable containers […]
Denise Schipani / 6 Comments / kids & snacks, kids and food / New York Times, snacking, snacks /
There’s nothing like being validated, is there? Especially, I have to say, by the New York Times. Just yesterday, a friend of mine sent me a link to a story in the Times about — wait for it — how kids today snack too much. Yeah, been there, said that. The writer, Jennifer Steinhauer, herself […]