Denise Schipani / 11 Comments / discipline, family life /
My boys and I had quite a day this past Friday. I’d known for months that May 22 would be a big day: my niece, my beautiful Tara, would be graduating from Marymount Manhattan College. I had to be there, no question about it. Tara was born when I was a senior in college, and […]
Denise Schipani / 7 Comments / discipline, family life / delayed gratification, Jonah Lehrer, marshmallows, patience, The New Yorker /
I read a fascinating article in The New Yorker yesterday. (Which, having read the magazine weekly for years now, is a sentence that pops out of my mouth pretty frequently.) It’s called “Don’t! The Secret of Self Control,” by Jonah Lehrer. The piece opens with a description of an experiment conducted in the late 1960s, […]
Denise Schipani / 20 Comments / discipline, family life /
The other day, in the midst of the Worst Head Cold Ever (turned out to be a sinus infection, during which I’ve still shuttled and cleaned and fed my kids — there are no sick days in parenting, but I digress), I interviewed a child psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City for […]
Denise Schipani / 18 Comments / kids and food / kids and snacking, snacking, snacks /
Let me say this right upfront: I love snacks. I love chips, both potato and chocolate. I love little, picky things, finger food, cheese and crackers, nuts, trail mix… I love the good kind of snacks (baked pita chips dipped in hummus) and the bad kind (day-glo cheez doodles that turn your fingers orange). But. […]
Denise Schipani / 3 Comments / discipline, kids and sleep /
Not long ago, someone I know slightly was having a problem with her young son. Seems the darling boy was developing a very unlovely habit of waking, shrieking, at 5 a.m., and the only thing that would calm him was a visit to his crib from Mom or Dad — and all the better if […]
Denise Schipani / 3 Comments / family life, humor /
“I hold their hands in parking lots and when crossing the street, but then let them run ahead.”