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    Rebecca Levey

    Rebecca Levey

  • User Post: 5 Women I Want My Daughters to Know About

    My Great Aunt Sara: My grandmother's sister was substantially older than my grandmother, was born back in Russia under cloudy circumstances that no one ever really clarified (did her mother marry a bigamist or have an affair?), came to America at the age of 2 with her single mother. She kept my grea

  • Virtual World, Real Tears. Learning About Emotional Internet Safety

    My daughter came into the living room with tears in her eyes, a big pouty lower lip and a look of pure devastation on her face one Saturday morning. I asked her what was wrong - did she fall off her chair? Bang her knee? Stub her toe? No. It's turns out that while playing Club Penguin someone had co

  • User Post: Making a New York dollar last longer than a New York Minute

    Last week my husband and I had brunch with some cousins visiting from Seattle. One of them looked at me with pity and said "How can you live here - it's so expensive!" Now, she doesn't live in some tiny town she lives in Seattle! But still, there they were shaking their heads and thinking we were ou

  • User Post: Top Ten Parenting Truths of 2010 (learned the hard way)

    If your child is a raging maniac for no reason chances are they will wake up in the middle of the night vomiting with 103 degree fever. Always put a bowl next to your child's bed if they say their stomach hurts before bedtime The first 6 weeks of school are always terrible. It will get better

  • User post: Why Education Reformers Need to Listen Parents

    This past week Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times, U.S.G and P.T.A, about parental involvement making a difference in student achievement. When I first read the article I yawned. Tell me something I don't know. Kids do better when parents are involved? Of course. Kids do better whe

  • User post: A Retro Thanksgiving

    Yes I am one of those read-all-the-labels, organic milk buying, farmers market shopping, will not make mashed potatoes from a box kind of moms. But then Thanksgiving rolls around and every inch of my Midwestern rooted soul craves some particularly 1950s-centric foods. I spent every Thanksgiving of m

  • User Post: 3 Days, 60 Miles, 1 Daughter's Perspective on Walking for the Cure

    This is the first time I've had a guest post on my blog. My friend Shari watched her mom battle metastatic breast cancer for 5 years. I never knew her mom as a non-breast cancer patient - but for the first 3 years it was hard to believe this intrepid, funny, strong women who traveled, cooked for hug

  • User post: I am One of THOSE PTA Moms - Gotta Problem With That?

    In the last few months I've read several blog posts railing against the PTA moms at various schools. The complaints are usually the same - they're overbearing and pushy, busy bodies trying to vie for the principal or teacher's attention, do-gooders who get off on making the rest of the parents feel

  • The SEX Talk - There's No App For That!

    "Mommy, what happens if you're pregnant and you don't want to keep the baby?" This is the question my seven year-old daughter asked me first thing on a Monday morning a few weeks ago. I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and I told her that you would give the baby up for adoption. They have quite a few