[+]It is against the law for cab drivers to be on cell phones, even if they use headsets, in NYC. That said - do you ask them to stop? If you are alone vs. if your kid is in the car?
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Anyone know if the Polly Pocket "Lofts" (kitchen, bathroom, etc.) work with the Mall? Look the same, but the box for the "Loft" pieces say they only light up w/the Center Courtyard. My guess is this is so we will buy the Center Courtyard -- I think they'll work if we attach them to the main part of the Mall (my DD won't care if she mixes stores and rooms...). TIA!
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[+]What are the chances of my early June ds getting shut out of private schools for being too young when he is as mature socially and emotionally as his preschool classmates who are older, and so far has not been shown to struggle in any areas and is strong verbally according to teachers and PSD. Just nervous about his birth date. Any btdt or opinions? tia
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moving to westchester. How to find a babysitter/housekeeper? My current one takes care of 3 dcs and cleans, does laundry 2x week. I know she is Mary Poppins and lightning does not strike twice (generally). But how do I find someone like that? What do you pay per hour, per week, or live in? Please help, thanks!
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[+]Where would be a great place to go skiing with a 6-year old where I can rent a room with a kitchen and not need a car to get to the slopes? Any ideas? TIA.
4 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]Any ski resort will probably have ski-in-ski-out condos or commuter buses to and from local hotels. We like Okemo in Vermont personally.
[ Reply | Options ]Stein Erickson Lodge at Deer Valley if you can spend $ (they have small suites with kitchens). You will not need a car at all (they have a hotel shuttle into park city). It's actually not terribly expensive, depending on when you go (especially considering that flights into Salt Lake City are cheap). I think we paid about $350/night for a junior suite last year with a full kitchen towards the end of the season. Was like a studio apartment, and would have been perfect for two adults and a child.
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[+]Rant about my mother. DH and I were married at City Hall (couldn't afford a wedding at the time) and rent an apartment. My little brother in Oregon just bought a house and his wife's parents paid for their huge, black tie wedding earlier this year. My mother keeps going on and on about how proud she is that they have "done things right." She hates that we rent b/c it's "unstable" and doesn't consider my marriage "real" since we didn't have the big wedding. Ugh. This is really bothering me today.
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[+]Does anyone know any magazines where 9yo dd could submit some poetry? No, I don't think she's a writing genius, but this is the first academic area she has shown interest in and I want to encourage her.
5 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]New Moon is a magazine full of girls' submissions. Here's their website: http://www.newmoon.com/
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[+]Cooking moms: Am making a brussels sprout/potato gratin for Thanksgiving. Hostess told us 40 people are coming, so my questions is twofold: 1) should I make this dish for 40 or perhaps less since it's a side dish and 2) can I use a disposable foil-type pan since I don't have a gratin dish that big? Will that still work? Many thanks; I know these seem like dumb questions but I am not a cooking maven by any stretch! TY!!
11 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]i happen to love brussel sprouts but doubt all 40 will eat them so make less and use biggest pan(s) poss. maybe 2 more sturdy cake pans (foil is flimsy).
[ Reply | Options ]i would make it for 20, tops. not everyone likes brussels sprouts and presumably there will be tons of sides so even those who do may only take a dollop.
[ Reply | Options ]You might want to get a plain baking dish and make that a hostess gift. It doesn't have to be extravagant, $20 or so at a hardware store. Not a requirement, just a nice-to-do idea.
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[+]Who here is considering divorce but have not shared with anyone. I am in this position and wanted to hear similar stories. Why are you considering it? TIA
6 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]I am in the middle of a divorce and it's really stressful...if it's something you can resolve with therapy go for it...
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but no abuse or cheating. We've been together almost 20 yrs, married for 15. We just don't get along at all, fight and get on each other's nerves constantly, he gets mad about everything I say and do, we've been to counseling twice, and I just don't know what to do at this point. I don't want to settle for this life, but I would feel terrible about my dd, so I don't know what to do.
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yes.I'm in doubt if I should stay in the right bank (intercontinental le grand hotel, where cafe de la paix is) or close to luxembourg garden in the place de la Sorbonne....what you think? never been..no clue...
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I was there a month ago. We stayed at an expensive hotel and I would definitely recommend that you forgo any luxury hotel and find a nice boutique hotel. There are TONS of them, and it's not worth spending your money on a marble lobby when you can be spending it on good food.
[ Reply | Options ]that's my point also...but for some reason I've got a good deal for the Intercontinental Le Grand (just $100 difference from the boutique one in place de Sorbonne...) so don't know what to do...is the location of the intercontinental (right by the opera) kind of far to walk everywhere else or place the Sorbonne would be closer?
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it's cross the street to 2nd ar, but because my main focus is not shopping, is EATING I'm worried it will be far..
[ Reply | Options ]metro is super easy there. get a 3 or 4 day pass. i would go boutique but intercont would be chi chi and fun. start worrying about what to wear and eat!!
[ Reply | Options ]I have done my research on that already...LOL! i just can't decide on the hotel..the point would be to take advantage of the chi chi but paying price range of boutique anyway...(the intercontinental $1272 for 3 nights/4 days and the boutique one in sorbonne is$1161 includes breakfast (but not sure if would be good to take advantage to eat everyday in a different cafe...) HELP! lol
[ Reply | Options ]Go with the boutique. What time do they stop serving breakfast? Because of the time change, we missed breakfast hours at cafes on many days.
[ Reply | Options ]TIME CHANGE?? it is paris - set your alarm and get going. no time to waste! you can sleep when you get home or on the plane. If you take night flight, try to sleep on plane. then stay up the whole day on arrival - until 9 or so. you will be fine.
[ Reply | Options ]You do have to get some sleep at some point, but we got a good tip from a guy in the elevator when we got there, just take a 2-3 hour nap that first day, even if you didn't sleep on the plane, and that will re-charge you enough so you don't lose that first day.
[ Reply | Options ]well, i go to london 2 times a month for work. i sleep on plane (3-4 hours) and stay up all next day. am fit as a fiddle second day - wake up at normal time as in US. a 2-3 hour nap won't hurt too much i guess, just don't sleep the day away! another good trick is to change your watch while waiting at airport. your brain will start thinking in CET.
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I would pick near Place de la Sorbonne personally. It's a much more interesting area. We stayed across in the Tulleries area and spent absolutely no time in that particular area at all, except to hit the Louvre.
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[+]SO if G&T was created just to bring local kids back to public it sounds to me like a marketing ploy without any substance behind it.
33 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]It was at the time. It was created to make UMC white parents feel comfortable sending their dcs to schools that were not performing well and were predominantly filled with kids out of district and catchment. And as more and more kids have gone to the G&Ts and the population of the UWS has changed those schools have changed. 9 and 166 could easily phase out G&T at this point and be fine.
[ Reply | Options ]I don't think that is fair even though I'm not UMC white. I think it's great for smart kids in poor nabes with zoned schools that cannot accommodate these kids. Giving them an opportunity to district G&T is great and often the only option these kids have. The only sad thing is G&T cutoff should be higher and curriculum should be accelerated. With 90% cutoff is ridiculous.
[ Reply | Options ]seems so silly to me, like an entire program created to feed off of the competitive nature of adults with regard to their children but based in nothing real.
[ Reply | Options ]after thinking long and hard about it ita (and we tested and qualified for g&t, so no sour grapes). a school is only as good is its peer group, so the kool-aid drinkers say. nothing else matters. the teachers can suck, the parents can be minimally involved, the fundraising can be below where it chould be, the commute can be 1.5 hours each way but as long as the "peer group" is great, the school is great. the funny thing is that with a 90% cutoff at districtwides the peer group may be virtually the same as that at a top gen ed anyway.
[ Reply | Options ]sounds like you have a good local school and you are only thinking about your particular situation. there are many families who either get a G&T spot or have to move to a decent school district. In our school G&T families are mostly doing all the fund raising an the after school program management. If not for the G&T this school would be another terrible school. Now since the G&T has been there a while it is becoming a decent option for the non G&T classes as well. I believe that the DOE is trying to open G&T programs in new schools to try to get the parents more involved and get these schools to improve.
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my dc is in K in a local g&t on UWS. most parents are very down to earth and the children are more "interested in learning/focused" then most of the children we had in our expensive and popular nursery school.
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I don't think it was a clever marketing scheme, I think it was legislation. Most U.S. states have mandated that school districts MUST provide a G&T program for a certain fixed percentage of kids.
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