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Education Midwood Montessori EducationDecember 2010 BROOKLYN SectionFREE Family www.webfamilyny.com Holidays with heart Spend less & savor more Childcare to fi t your budget Where to go in December? Check out our Going Places *Up to $10,000 is deductible from New York State taxable income for married couples filing jointly; single residents can deduct up to $5,000 annually. May be subject to recapture in certain circumstances— rollovers to another state’s plan or non-qualified withdrawals. **Earnings on non-qualified withdrawals may be subject to federal income tax and a 10% federal penalty tax, as well as state and local income taxes. Tax and other benefits are contingent on meeting other requirements and certain withdrawals are subject to federal, state and local taxes. Before you invest, consider whether your or the designated beneficiary’s home state offers any state tax or other benefits that are only available for investments in such state’s qualified tuition program. 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I 60 New & Noteworthy BY MARY CARROLL WININGER have a super teenage daughter who is a dedi- The hottest new products cated student and a thoughtful human being. 44 Bugging out again I have a terrific staff with which to collaborate Greenpoint cartoonist dishes on his new kids book CALENDAR OF EVENTS on work I thoroughly enjoy. I have good health, BY CHUck O’DONNELL loving friends and relations, and an apprecia- 51 Going Places tion of a lot that life has to offer. All this I was 46 Learn the lingo Take the family out and find out what’s taught by my parents and I am trying to pass Tips for parents hoping to communicate with teens going on in your town on this same love of living to my next in line. BY JOANNA DELBUONO That’s what we, as parents, must do. And now, I must thank the wonderful peo- 48 Pee-wee in the ‘house’ SPECIAL SECTION ple I work with who make these magazines Paul Reubens’s TV show hits Broadway 20 Education Directory happen. 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Not in a my- the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Ru- NEWBIE DAD dad-made-me-star-in-“Home dolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” BRIAN KANTZ Alone”-then-squandered-all-of- and “Frosty the Snowman” en- my-earnings way. So, my wife dure to this day . and I take them to interesting places, encourage them to try Hearing different foods, and snap about Two words: Bing Crosby. No a bazillion photos to document album will ever top Bing’s “White our experiences together. Christmas” for direct association Still, for all of the “memorable” with the holidays. In my mind, I stuff that we do, I can’t help but won- can hear Bing singing, “I’m dream- der how much my kids will actually ing…” and my dad singing, “… of a remember. After all, they are only age of the early childhood memories …” and my grandfather singing, “… 6 and 3, and unless you’re Junie B. that do still exist revolve around the white Christmas …” Who doesn’t Jones, it’s kind of tough to write first- holidays and the senses. And I’m love to impersonate the bub-a-dub- grade memoirs with any great detail. making a concerted effort to pass bub sound of der Bingle? I’m 37 and those closets in my brain those memories on to my two sons.
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