School GuideAugust 2013 BROOKLYN FREE Family Fall Where Every Child Matters Keeping COOL Backpack weight Tantrums Smoking PARENTING MEDIA�ASSOCIATION Sports injuries 2013 Gold Award Winner Editorial and Design Awards Competition Find us online at www.NYParenting.com BROOKLYN Family August 2013 FEATURES COLUMNS 6 The great pregnancy weight 31 Dear Teacher debate BY PEGGY GIslER AND Learning about your body before, during, and MARGE EbERTS after pregnancy 34 Just Write Mom BY JAMIE LOBER BY DANIEllE SUllIVAN 8 5 ways to prevent sports injuries 38 Mommy 101 BY BIll BLUE 66 BY ANGELICA SEREdA 10 Stop the smoke 40 Good Sense Eating Three new ways to reduce smoking in young BY CHRISTINE M. PALUMBO, RD people BY SHEELAH A. FEINBERG 42 Death by Children 12 Why being silly is serious BY CHRIS GARLINGTON business 44 Growing Up Online ‘Laughter is the best medicine’ applies to both BY CAROLYN JAbs kids & parents BY MEAGAN J. MEEHAN 46 Ask an Attorney BY AlISON ARDEN BESUNDER, EsQ. 14 Keeping cool in the face of a 48 FabuLYSS Finds tantrum BY LYss STERN My secret: Three deep breaths to calmness BY HEATHER VAN DEEST 49 Family Health BY DR. PRAMOD NARULA, MD 16 Sleep training made easy — sort of 50 Dear Dr. Karyn A new dad breaks down the process BY DR. KARYN GORDON BY TIM PERRINS 52 Lions and Tigers and Teens 18 Knowledge is empowerment 20 BY MYRNA BETH HAskEll How one parent found the right school for her 54 The Book Worm child BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER BY VAL AMBROSE 55 Family Journal 20 The big ‘K’ BY ROBERT MORTON Twelve steps to get your child ready for kindergarten 56 Healthy Living BY DR. VALERIE AllEN BY DANIEllE SUllIVAN 32 Backpack weight 58 A Teen’s Take Finding your child the perfect bag for school BY AGLAIA HO BY MONICA DIClERICO BROWN 66 New & Noteworthy 36 The right notes BY LISA J. CURTIS Checking in with jazz musician and Brooklyn mom Laila Biali BY TAMMY SCILEppI CALENDAR 43 Vacation for all 60 August Events Sarasota’s resort at Longboat Club allows families to define fun BY STACEY ZAblE SPECIAL SECTIONS 50 Waiting & patience 22 Education Directory Teaching special-needs children how 57 The Marketplace to stay put 12 59 Party Planners BY REBECCA MCKEE August 2013 • BROOKLYN FAMIly 3 Letter from the publisher Babies make the world go around t’s absolutely amaz- ing forward to, but isn’t turn to on occasion. How lucky in Even for them, with all their help ing how much at- forthcoming any time those moments the very rich or the and all their rituals, I would bet I tention and focus soon. aristocrats are. They always have there would be a “new normal” of a new baby can cause. People love babies! someone to do that and are seldom a kind. It just happens when you With so many seri- Me too. I see them in the responsible for the crabby times. I become a new parent, even a very ous things happening street and I take notice. wonder if Kate and William will be? privileged one. I couldn’t help think- all around us, the re- I recently saw a push- Our baby on the cover last month ing of William’s mum Diana, and cent arrival of Prince cart from a local child- brought a lot of “oohs” and “aahs,” how pleased she would have been George of Cambridge care facility that had 10 and great mail came in comment- to be there too, and how proud she got a whole lot of press babies, each in their in- ing on how darling that photo was. would be to become George’s Gran- time and I saw TV dividual seat, and the Thank you for the feedback. It was nie. She always seemed to most of clips of crowds of people standing picture of those tiny tots brought fun to put together an issue that us to have been largely a good mum around all day outside both the me a great deal of joy. I found myself had so many articles focused on the herself. palace and the hospital waiting for interacting with them and it was a natal experience. There’s another Enjoy the rest of the summer and the birth announcement. Waiting great few minutes in my day. one in this issue, about the con- as always, thanks for reading. all day? To me that’s absolutely in- I loved having a baby, most of the troversy around weight gain during credible. time. I didn’t love it in the middle pregnancy. I never really got a good Then again, I am not a Brit or a of the night, when I was dealing look at her as she moved into the Royalist, nor am I inclined to stand with colic or such, and losing sleep later stages of her pregnancy, but around all day for any reason, let and patience. Interrupted nights and I would bet that Kate didn’t put on alone to wait on the arrival of a baby, sleep deprivation for months was a lot of weight during her late tri- Susan Weiss-Voskidis, unless it was the arrival of my first difficult and like any other parent mesters. She’s pretty underweight to Publisher/Excutive Editor grandchild which I am really look- I longed for a nanny or such to begin with. 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