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The Bronx Lagoon Is Also a Lounge and a Game Room EDUCATIONAugust 2010 BRONX/RIVERDALE FALLFREE Familywww.webfamilyny.com Beyond the Beach One family’s cruise PlanningPlanning aheadahead 27 ways to manage the school year Success! Our columnist meets her weight-loss goal Where to go in AUGUST? Check out our Going Places BRONX Family August 2010 Letter from the publisher t’s August already. Isn’t it amazing how I the summer weeks whizz by? July was a hot month and seemed more like August, which makes me wonder what August will be like. The days are getting shorter, although there’s still plenty of light at the end of the day to eat outdoors, have dinner on the beach, or barbeque on the grill. My family has been to the beach quite fre- FEATURES COLUMNS quently this summer and I don’t mind telling 2 Newbie Dad you that my beach of choice — and the one 6 Back-to-school checklist BY BRIAN KANTZ that’s most accessible and inviting — has been, How to get your A in organization this fall and still is, the clean and lovely beach/board- BY CAROL BRZOZOWSKI 4 Good Sense Eating walk at Long Beach. 8 Happy, minus 15 pounds BY CHRISTINE M. PALUmbO, RD Did I mention that we don’t live in Long After six months, Kathy achieves her diet goal Beach and that every summer we buy a family BY KATHY SENA 10 Family Health beach pass? I’m certain there are local people BY IVAN HAND, MD, FAAP who think we are a hibernating family that 12 Cruise control lives out there but only appears in the warmer Disney boats are fun for the whole family 30 It Figures months. BY ALLISON PLITT School snippets “So nice to see you. How was your winter?” They ask us every year. 10 College road trip 32 New & Noteworthy I say nothing and just enjoy all the friendli- Hit the road before your senior applies The hottest new products ness that I can find in life. I mean, we’re talking BY RISA C. DOHERTY 30 years of beaching at Long Beach. CALENDAR OF EVENTS We took our family vacation in June but I’m 14 The Bronx is open! pretty certain that a lot of families are still Lots of family activities at Crotona Park 27 Going Places looking forward to time off together. Maybe BY TIZIANA RINALDI Take the family out and find out what’s the kids have been at camp and you’re waiting going on in your town till the end of summer to do a family drive or a 16 Visit the Bronx River stay-cation? Maybe you have a new college stu- Discover the amazing river next door SPECIAL SECTION dent who is home with you for the last weeks BY TIZIANA RINALDI before beginning campus life? 20 Education Directory Whatever you do or wherever you go, enjoy the end of summer and the good foods that are coming into season now, like fresh Long Island corn and tomatoes. Visit your local farmer’s STAff CONTACT INFORMATION market or stand and see those wonderful PUBLISHer: Clifford Luster ADVERTISING SALES Address green beans, cucumbers, peaches, blueber- 718 260-2587 Family Publications New York/CNG ries and blackberries that are grown here, and PUBLISHer/MANAGIng edItor: [email protected] or 1 MetroTech Center North Susan Weiss help support your family’s good health and our [email protected] 10th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 local farmers at the same time. What a great EDItor: Vince DiMiceli CIrcULATIon partnership that is! 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Well, at Minutes” commentaries by that fa- Kool-Aid was your only option. least his vehicle doesn’t guzzle gas, mous curmudgeon, Andy Rooney. And what flavor was Kool-Aid? It but he should still need a license to NEWBIE DAD Or, maybe it’s the fact that some kid was red. There was only one flavor of drive that thing. I’ve seen more than BRIAN KANTZ at the playground just called me an Kool-Aid that I knew of: red Kool-Aid. a few innocent flowers buried under “old dude.” (37 is not old, kid! You Maybe Kool-Aid did offer its drink the wheels of Johnny’s wildly navi- may not believe that now, but you’ll mix in other flavors back then, but gated bad-boy machine. see! You’ll see!) Whatever it is, I have we were never aware of it. Back when we were kids, we tooled a rock in my shoe this summer. Do you know how many flavors of up and down the streets all summer So, what’s wrong? What’s my juice and juice-like beverages are on long on our Big Wheels and banana- beef? Well, I’m just wondering, who the market today? About 150,000. So, seat bicycles with sissy bars. Pedal went and super-sized summer for when someone at a picnic asks me power, baby. If you wanted to visit a today’s kids? Just about if I would like a strawberry orange friend who lived down the block, you pomegranate or a Pacific mango sun- either pedaled or hoofed it on your splash, I usually ask, “Do you have own two feet. You wouldn’t have any red?” even imagined taking your battery- Let’s move on to the Slip ‘n Slide. powered Lightning McQueen out for It was a true backyard necessity a spin. on a hot summer day, especially OK, I’m almost done. Here’s one once the three-foot-round plastic more favorite summer activity: going pool just wouldn’t comfort- to the neighborhood playground. ably accommodate This is my two sons’ favorite thing my three gangly to do. They call it going to “swings brothers and I and slides.” Back in my childhood, anymore. The that’s exactly what it was. We went original Slip ‘n Slide to a playground that had swings and featured some pretty one slide. All of the equipment was basic engineering: a fashioned out of industrial-grade long plastic steel. You sat on a flat steel seat on sheet with an the swing and you climbed up steel opening for steps to get to the top of the tall steel the garden hose. slide. That steel was a molten 220-de- Turn the spigot grees in the hot sun. on and away you Today’s playgrounds? Oh… my… go, slipping the gosh. They are unbelievable! Instead hot summer day of simple swings and slides, these are away under the monstrous “play structures.” Spiral soft drizzle of cold slides, rock-climbing walls, ziplines, water. You just had to make sure fireman’s poles and on and on! All that no large sticks, giant in cool-to-the-touch molded plastic. every great thing I re- rocks or neighborhood dogs It’s madness, I tell you! And, I must member from the summers of my were underneath the plastic, admit, it’s all so much darn fun! childhood still exists, but it has all lest you impale yourself, break a shin So, go ahead, kids, enjoy your been super-sized, mega-hyped and or get bitten. super-sized summer! Have a grand full-throttled. It’s like summer on Today’s Slip ‘n Slides? Whoa-ho- old time. Just know that in another steroids. I notice this all the time as I ho. Fancy. You’ve got gushing water- 30 years, your stuff will seem pretty play with my kids. Do you? falls, cushy inflatable parts, hydro- old school, too, and you’ll be left Let me give you a quick example. planers, boogie boarders, triple rac- to write a nostalgic (and, yes, com- The taste of summer from your child- ers, wave riders, whitewater blasters, pletely jealous) column for the ben- hood — quick, what was it? If you the whole nine yards. It’s apparently efit of your peers. said Kool-Aid, you would be correct, less about slippin’ and slidin’ and Brian Kantz nearly broke his collar- my friend. A pitcher of Kool-Aid was more about looking good. bone diving on a Slip ‘n Slide the other everywhere, it seemed. In the fridge And speaking of fancy, what is day. Totally worth it. Visit Brian online at home, in the fridge at your friends’ with all of the kids tooling up and at www.briankantz.com or drop him a houses, on the picnic table, on the down the streets in motorized vehi- note at [email protected]. 2 BRONX FAMILY • August 2010 I have “a beautiful child, security and peace of mind , “ and Fidelis Care Doctors who care about me and my family. We have Child Health Plus & Family Health Plus withFidelis Care.
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