parenting | Lea Geller

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Jun, 2014

The Mad Summer Dash (or Why I Hate the Apple Store)

This is the week in between school and EVERYTHING ELSE. It’s technically summer — school has ended, June 21st has been and gone, and here…

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Jun, 2014

How It's Done (Summerlution Update)

You may be wondering how I am going to achieve Summerlution Number One (getting my kids to clear their breakfast plates). Easy. For this, I…

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Jun, 2014

Summerlution Number One

It’s the last day of school and my first summer resolution is born: To teach them ALL to clear the table and load the dishwasher.…

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Jun, 2014

End of year exhaustion is not just anecdotal…

Can you see this? This is the gate I use almost daily after I drop Sid off at school. It’s up a little hill on…

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Jun, 2014

Gifted.

I received a gift box from Amazon today. This was the note: And this was inside the box: Should I be upset that he snuck…

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Jun, 2014

Tony.

Here’s what I am not going to write about: How my kids behaved like complete ungrateful, insensitive animals on much of my birthday. I am…

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May, 2014

Say What?

Lots of fashion shows have been happening chez nous lately. Usually one of the younger girls has a friend over, much makeup is applied, outfits…

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May, 2014

Oh, Nuts.

It was inevitable. Although I made it through seven years of the Pacific NW with my sense of humor (somewhat) in tact, it seems that…

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May, 2014

May Showers

Apparently we are having an unseasonably cold and wet spring here in NYC. I know that because people go out of their way to tell…

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May, 2014

Make up.

There are some children who could spend every waking hour on a play date, or who look to birthday parties with eager anticipation. There are…