Kids Parties in Philadelphia: One mom’s guide to planning your next party
Every January I begin planning my son’s birthday party. I think about paries we have attended and liked, I look for ideas on the Internet, and I use his current interests as inspiration. If his...
View ArticleSpring Fitness
I am ready to embrace Spring weather, and so are my kids. As the temperature creeps back up into the 60′s and 70′s, we are shedding our layers and running to the nearest park. It seems that in my...
View ArticleThe Long Way Home
The ten minute drive home from work is both the best and worst ten minutes of my day. I am fortunate that my husband and kids pick me up from work most days of the week and we all drive home together....
View ArticlePreschooler Fashion
I swore I would never buy light-up shoes. When these first came out in 1992 I was only eleven years old and already had enough fashion sense to know that these were utterly ridiculous. I put them in...
View ArticleAges and Stages of Motherhood
Kids often like to flip through the cards on my ID badge, which dangles from my neck into their grasp during their physical exams. Flipping through, they see first my main ID picture, taken very...
View ArticleWhen a Pediatrician Breaks Her Own Rules
I smirked to myself as I typed instructions for a nurse to pass along to my patient: “I do not recommend adding rice cereal to the bottle. When developmentally appropriate, it should be given by spoon...
View ArticleThe Dad Behind the Working Mom
As a working mom, I could not do all of the things I want to accomplish as a mother or career woman without the support of my husband. Beyond offering me encouragement along the way, he is an equitable...
View ArticleJuly 4th in the City
After spending much of the Winter cooped up indoors, we could not be more excited about our Summer in the city. While many are talking about where they are going on vacation this Summer, we are excited...
View ArticleThe Pediatrician at the Party
Being a pediatrician at a children’s birthday party or baby shower is like being a mall Santa. People are practically lining up with a list of questions. Ok, so maybe they don’t line up, but they do...
View ArticleSetting Incremental Goals
One of the best parts about my job is the other working moms in my office who serve as daily sounding boards for my working motherhood journey. We frequently ask each other questions, share resources,...
View ArticleSummer in the City
As the Summer continues to fly by and everyone continues to share photos of their weekends “down the shore,” I thought I would share my favorite things about Summer in the city. Sure the city heat can...
View ArticleWorking Parent Dilemma: Where to send your kids after school
As a dual-working parent household, it is inevitable that once our children start school, we will need to find after-school care for them. While I am still figuring out where they will go to school, I...
View ArticleMaking Up Answers About Make-up and Beauty
I do not know why children are drawn to following their mother into the bathroom, but it seems that every mom I know has a hard time showering or using the bathroom without children hanging from her...
View ArticleSummer’s Simple Moments
*This post was previously published at the Today Show Parenting Team site* All Summer long I have heard friends and coworkers talk about their extravagant vacations and ask in turn where my family was...
View ArticleA New Music Class for Kids in Queen Village
Ever since I first saw the sun-drenched dance studio on a sleepy side street, I was eager to find a class there for my kids. Philly PACK is exactly what’s it acronymous name stands for: a performing...
View ArticleBeach Girl Goes City, or How I Became a Shoobie Mom
Although there are some warm days coming and a few days until it is officially Fall, there is starting to be a chill in the air and we put on our sweatshirts for the first time in months yesterday....
View ArticlePapal Visit and Pedestrian Safety
As a teenager, my parents took us on vacation to Mackinac Island, a resort island in Lake Huron that has a ban on motor vehicles. Without a driver’s license myself, I was hardly inconvenienced by this...
View ArticleTuesdays with Mommy: One-on-One at the Magic Gardens
I routinely tell patients’ families that when they have their second child they should make time to take their first child out one-on-one for special time with one, or both, of their parents. I...
View ArticleTeaching Doctors to Clean like Preschoolers
My first surgical rotation as a medical student was OB/Gyn and I still remember my first day like it was yesterday. We were all so eager to deliver a baby we could barely contain ourselves when we...
View ArticleBeyond Mommy Call
Turns out that working full-time and raising two children has kept me pretty busy lately and so there have been fewer Mommy Call posts. Sorry! However, just because there are not quite as many posts...
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