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January 2015 MANHATTAN NewHappy Year!FREE Family Where Every Child Matters Look sharp! Does your child need glasses? Kids Night on Broadway A family weekend in Washington DC Find us online at www.NYParenting.com REGISTER ONLINE TODAY FOR EARLY BIRD RATES! The outdoor camp, with a downtown feel. Come join us and explore nature, stories, independence and community in a fun, outdoor, kid-charged environment! Flexible summer sessions for Brooklyn and Manhattan kids entering K-8th on 75 beautiful acres of the Staten Island Greenbelt. Full Summer: 6/29 - 8/21 Session 1: 6/29 - 7/17 Session 2: 7/20 - 7/31 Session 3: 8/3 - 8/21 Meet us in person: 1/29, 2/28, 3/26, 4/16– call or email to reserve your spot! newcountrydaycamp.org [email protected] 646-395-4357 Use registration code: NYF for a free gift MANHATTAN Family January 2015 26 FEATURES COLUMNS 6 Focus on eye health 8 Good Sense Eating 16 How to know if your child needs glasses BY CHRISTINE M. PALUmbO, RD BY ALLISON PLITT 12 FabuLYSS Finds 10 Show time! BY LYSS STERN Kids Night on Broadway is a great intro for little folks 24 Healthy Living BY SHNIEKA L. JOHNSON BY DaNIELLE SULLIVAN 14 Washington DC 28 Dear Teacher A great weekend for families BY PEGGY GISLER AND BY SHNIEKA L. JOHNSON MARGE EbERTS 16 The value of Catholic schools 34 Divorce & Separation Why parents choose this effective alternative BY LEE CHabIN, ESQ. 14 BY CANDI SpaRKS 46 The Book Worm 20 Time for creativity BY TERRI ScHLICHENMEYER Why innovative thinking is not just for kids BY JESSIca MEYER CALENDAR 22 Recycled love 38 January Events Talking with Sasha Lipton, founder of Second Chance Toys BY TammY ScILEppI SPECIAL SECTIONS 26 Peace on Earth 18 Catholic Schools Tips for choosing, promoting and teaching peace in your life 46 Party Planners BY CAROLYN WATERBURY-TIEmaN 46 The Marketplace 30 Summer camp the family way 36 Get away at Mount Snow Family Camp BY STacEY ZabLE 32 Windows & wheels Learning to let go when your child grows up BY PATRICK HEmpFING 36 Bigger & better Kid movie critics review ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb’ January 2015 • MANHATTAN FAMILY 3 Letter from the publisher Our multicultural city f one listened to to deal with and to im- Raising children in New York As New York parents we must pro- the news all the prove, but it’s my con- City is a breeze actually compared vide our children with as much I time one could get tention that if you take to the isolation of some of the sub- contact as possible because the a very dismal point of warring peoples from urbs and/or a rural world where opportunity here is profound. Meet view about the world far away and bring there is less stimulation and far your neighbors, get involved in the today and become them here to Coney less contact with others. parent association and make sure largely despondent. Island Avenue or the Our children are sharper, more your children’s day to day world There’s little doubt as Grand Concourse or astute and more worldly. They are is inclusive. Only by knowing each one story after another Victory Boulevard or more at ease with differences and other can the future society rid it- points out the horrors Steinway Street or the thrive because of them. They be- self of ancient grudges, vendettas and the inadequacies Lower East Side, they come creative and sophisticated and prejudice. of the global reality that the human will go into business together and in ways that are copied by every Happy New Year! Thanks for experience has room for growth find their brotherhood and com- major industry. The fashion world reading. and that outrageous suffering is monality. looks to our street kids to find the endured by millions. This is the great beauty of our next wave and the music is created Here in New York, however, we complex multicultural city and often on those streets, just a few are better off in so many ways, most of the time there is great of the trend setting examples of starting from the basic fact that beauty and one finds displays of young influence coming out of our we are a pluralistic society that human kindness here and sensitiv- neighborhoods. becomes only more so with each ity that surprise the false impres- Life isn’t perfect, but human con- Susan Weiss-Voskidis, passing day. Not that it’s perfect sion that we are a rude bunch with tact is key to the transition from Publisher/Excutive Editor here, and we have loads of issues no manners and a lack of caring. barbarism to conflict resolution. 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January 2015 • MANHATTAN FAMILY 5 on eye health BY ALLISON PLITT their child’s vision. a general evaluation that’s done to How to know Although all pediatricians offer assess the overall health and align- very parent should be on the some type of vision testing, Wein- ment of the eyes. if your child lookout for potential prob- stein refers to the recommenda- Subsequently, the Association E lems with her child’s health, tions of the American Optomet- typically recommends a second and vision impairment is no excep- ric Association, which represents exam at age 3, when the child is able needs glasses tion. Marc Weinstein, who worked 39,000 professionals in the field of to give some responses. The first full as the Optometric Director for vari- optometry in the United States. Ac- exam for a child will happen usually ous New York locations of Macy’s cording to the Association, the first before first grade. If the child’s eyes Vision Express, gives parents some eye exam a child should have is by are healthy, then he will need an eye guidelines to help them evaluate 6 months of age, which consists of exam every two years after that. 6 MANHATTAN FAMILY • January 2015 “If the child doesn’t like the eyeglasses, he’s not going to want to wear them. If he doesn’t wear them, then this defeats the purpose.” “At the end of the day, chil- protection built into the lens.