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" %!! !% ! ! %$ $!%1,%77%1 - ) *8//3%+)'2/25 MANHATTAN Family June 2013 14 FEATURES COLUMNS 6 When should I be worried? 22 Downtown Mommy New parents: Take things one step at a time NOTOYA GREEN BY TIM PERRINS 26 Just Write Mom 8 The teenage brain BY DANIELLE SULLIVAN Getting inside your teen’s wild, wacky, wonderful mind 30 FabuLYSS Finds BY MALIA JACOBSON BY LYSS StERN 10 The buzz on caffeinated 42 Ask an Attorney BY ALISON ARDEN BESUNDER, ESQ. snack foods What effect will these ‘stimulated’ snacks have on our children? CALENDAR BY KIKI BOCHI 34 June Events 12 Room to grow 32 Designing your child’s bedroom BY CONNIE BOLTON SPECIAL SECTIONS 14 Summer shape-up 16 Special Needs Directory Kids with special needs should get outside 41 The Marketplace and make the most of summer BY REBECCA MCKEE 20 Talking sense How to give a stuttering child back his voice BY JAMIE LOBER 24 Leading the change New book offers a pep talk for women in a man’s world BY RISA C. DOHERTY 28 Breakaway from NYC 24 Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship delivers one wow moment after another BY StACEY ZABLE 32 Safer sun for everyone Tips, tricks, and secrets to enjoy summer without getting burned BY MALIA JACOBSON June 2013 • MANHATTAN FamILY 3 Letter from the publisher Graduation t’s that time of year our contribution to the seems to be moving. every borough. again, when our festivities. How fortunate we are to be see- On a final note, there are fami- I youngsters gradu- I wasn’t wrong with ing our children grow, expand and lies in need all around us, from our ate from the various my emotional vision. achieve. Being parents through the neighbors still impacted by the ef- plateaus in their edu- The time has passed stages of our children’s lives as they fects of Super Storm Sandy to our cation. so swiftly and now its move from decade to decade and neighbors in Moore, Oklahoma who Looking back, my college graduations for level-to-level is an achievement not have experienced the devastation of very favorite graduation her crowd that seem to only for them but for us as well. a mega tornado. Reaching out with in our family was my have come about in no June is a wonderful month. It’s usu- money, clothes, and other forms of daughter’s ceremony up time since high school ally quite beautiful and it’s a time of help is just what neighbors should from kindergarten. Un- graduation. How could year of great weather and long days. do when tragedy strikes. foreseen buttons unleashed tears of it have happened so quickly? They It’s when schools let out and summer I’m on vacation for a time this joy that were out of my control. My have to be too young still for this begins and for us here in NYC it marks month and I can’t wait. We all need emotions seem to go berserk as I re- ceremony but they aren’t. The years the need for our children to find sum- time to relax and to “just be.” Wish- alized with utter clarity how fast the have passed and here we are again, mer programs to not only have fun ing you all a happy month and good time was going. One day she was born, thrilling in their achievements, their participating in, but also to challenge times for all your families. Thanks and then far too soon she was gradu- growth and their futures. them and keep the intellect alive. for reading! ating into the first grade. It seemed As you attend your own children’s Hopefully all of you either have so huge to me at the time. Everyone commencement ceremonies and cel- figured that out already or are in the thought I had “lost it” as I struggled ebrations, keep in mind how quickly process. Keep in mind that there is to gulp down tears that kept on com- it all goes and revel in the enjoyment still space available in the myriad of ing while at the same time trying to of the stages as they are marked. The options for your child or children Susan Weiss-Voskidis, sing our family’s rendition of “You are film gets speeded up it would seem and that summer should not be to- Publisher/Excutive Editor my sunshine,” our favorite song, and and the older we get the faster it all tally “time off.” Great programs are in [email protected] STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION PUBLISHER / EXECUTIVE EDITOR: ADVERTISING: WEB OR PRINT ADDRESS Susan Weiss (718) 260-4554 New York Parenting Media/CNG PUBLISHER / BUSINESS MANAGER: [email protected] or 1 Metrotech Center North Clifford Luster [email protected] 10th Floor SALES MANAGER / ADVERTISING: Brooklyn, NY 11201 Sharon Noble CIRCULATION OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE: (718) 260-8336 www.NYParenting.com Tina Felicetti [email protected] SALES REPS: Alexis Benson, Lori Falco, EDITORIAL Sharon Leverett, Shanika Stewart (718) 260-4554 ART DIRECTOR: Leah Mitch [email protected] PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: On Man Tse LAYOUT MANAGER: Yvonne Farley The acceptance of advertising by New York Join the conversation on Facebook. 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Being parents through the neighbors still impacted by the ef- plateaus in their edu- The time has passed stages of our children’s lives as they fects of Super Storm Sandy to our cation. so swiftly and now its move from decade to decade and neighbors in Moore, Oklahoma who Looking back, my college graduations for level-to-level is an achievement not have experienced the devastation of very favorite graduation her crowd that seem to only for them but for us as well. a mega tornado. Reaching out with in our family was my have come about in no June is a wonderful month.