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High School October 2013 MANHATTAN FREE Family Choices Where Every Child Matters 5 tips for high school admissions When you don’t approve of your child’s friends Understanding asthma PARENTING MEDIA�ASSOCIATION 2013 Gold Award Winner Editorial and Design Awards Competition Find us online at www.NYParenting.com MANHATTAN Family October 2013 FEATURES COLUMNS 6 Beware the pumpkin 30 Good Sense Eating How to avoid a common Halloween horror BY CHRISTINE M. PALUMBO, RD BY KIKI BOCHI 38 FabuLYSS Finds 8 Friend or foe? BY LYSS STERN When you disapprove of your child’s BFF BY RISA C. DOHERTY 40 The Book Worm BY TErrI SCHLICHENMEYER 10 Dress ’em up Halloween costume ideas for the craft 41 Downtown Mommy challenged BY NOTOYA GREEN BY SUE LEBRETON 42 Dear Dr. Karyn 12 Breathe easy BY DR. KARYN GOrdON Schooling yourself about asthma may help lower your child’s absences 43 Healthy Living BY DANIEllE SUllIVAN BY SUE LEBRETON 14 Bouncin’ at Barclays 44 Just Write Mom BY DANIEllE SUllIVAN Talented youngsters shine in Brooklyn Nets Kids Dance Team 46 Death by Children BY TAMMY SCILEPPI BY CHRIS GArlINGTON 20 16 Get involved! 47 Lions and Tigers and Teens Top tips for parents on being partners in their BY MYRNA BETH HASKEll child’s education this fall 48 Mommy 101 18 Real partnership BY ANGELICA SErEdA How to build a fruitful relationship with your child’s teacher 49 Divorce & Separation BY JENNY CHEN BY LEE CHABIN, ESQ. 20 Admission accomplished 58 New & Noteworthy Top-five tips for success with finding the right BY LISA J. CURTIS city high school BY MAURICE FRUMKIN 36 CALENDAR 28 Really bad hits How teen fighting deals a blow to IQ 50 October Events BY KIKI BOCHI 31 Fun activities with pumpkins SPECIAL SECTIONS BY CAROL J. AlEXANDER 22 High School Directory 35 Start off strong 56 The Marketplace Fortify your child against bone loss 57 Party Planners BY HEATHER LEE LEAP 36 A good night Finding the best way to help your family fall asleep BY JAMIE LOBER 53 A fairy-tale setting Majestic beauty surrounds Mohonk resort BY STACEY ZAblE 53 October 2013 • MANHATTAN FamILY 3 Letter from the publisher Braces, vision, and ‘newfangled stuff’ he world of or- Like everything else, Visit any dental office and you will there are simple surgical procedures thodontics has there has been incred- see an array of contemporary tech- to cure myopia and astigmatisms. T come a long way ible improvement in the niques and equipment that make it My grown adult nephew recently had since I was a kid. I was styles, fit and cost of all easy and far less costly than it the surgery and no longer needs cor- one of those lucky chil- corrective devices. Not used to be. rective lenses. He’s been urging me dren whose teeth came only kids wear them For me, having to wear glasses to go too and have it done, and I’m at in straight and I didn’t these days. I know many was the bane of my existence. I had last giving it some consideration. need any correcting, adults who opt to wear to wear them early in school and I October is a great month. Beauti- but that wasn’t the case them, and I don’t mean hated them and having something in ful weather without being too cold for most of my friends. just people in their 20s, front of my eyes, and they felt heavy and, of course, Halloween. Keep As I recall, the braces but rather, fairly “ma- on my face. I was absolutely certain your children happy and safe when of my day were horribly unattractive ture types.” So many things are they made me look like a librarian you’re out trick or treating and most and painful to the wearer. They were optional that didn’t used to be. It’s and that boys wouldn’t like me. It of all, have fun. also painful to others. I can recall my fantastic! happened for me at the tender age Thanks for reading. first boyfriend having them and my This is National Orthodontics of 10 and I was also having the addi- first kiss ended with me having a cut Month and a great time to discover if tional humiliation of the boy behind lip. It was embarrassing to both of us your child needs to have corrections me snapping my (new) bra strap and to me it was an alarming intro on his bite or teeth, or perhaps both. and pulling my ponytail repeatedly to new physical intimacy. Everyone They do amazing things with little to throughout the school day. who got them dreaded it no matter no “big deal” for the child. There are It was also peculiarly scary to how much they wanted to have nice so many improvements in the world realize that my eyes were not work- Susan Weiss-Voskidis, teeth and a good smile. They were of medicine and science. It’s not only ing to capacity and this reality made Publisher/Excutive Editor also expensive. gadgets that indicate advancement. me feel somehow handicapped. 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