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Lenore Skenazy is a columnist and features reporter for The New York Sun. She was formerly with the New York Daily News, but was fired from the Daily News in December 2006. She previously worked for NPR and Mad Magazine. She was featured in the second episode of Bravo's series Tabloid Wars.

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Childhood, stalled

The little boys in the little girls’ room have gotten a lot bigger lately. “We were just at the Museum of Natural History, and I took my son into the women’s bathroom with me and we got some looks,” says a Queens mother named Jennifer. That’s not so ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, New York Post,  13 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Museum of Natural History

Lenore Skenazy: Up With Death Panels!

Let's hear it for Death Panels. That's the gruesome name Sarah Palin gave to the idea that medical professionals should be paid for the time they spend talking with patients about their options when they - the patients -- are very sick. In reality, the ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Huffington Post,  21 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin

HELL IS OTHER PARENTS

"Anyone who defines hell as being stuck for eternity with an adulterous deserter, a lesbian sadist and a narcissistic baby-murderer has never spent an hour at a Mommy and Me class," writes war-photographer-turned-mom-of-three, Deborah Copaken Kogan... ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, New York Post,  16 Aug 2009

Lenore Skenazy: What the New York Times Left Out

Item: The man in the Facebook photographs seems like your average guy having a little fun. Here he is in a festive scene at a park, gamely wearing a red fleece and a Santa Claus hat. Here he is again, playing Frisbee on the beach... Oops. It turns out ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Huffington Post,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  United Nations,  Barack Obama,  OPEC

What The White House Could Learn From A Bronx Soda Fountain Owner

Not about the economy! (Or maybe you are, I can't say.) But you are definitely deluded about your job as a parent. And so are a bunch of your buddies. A recent article in The New York Times, "'Family Friendly' White House Proves Less So for Many Aides," ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Huffington Post,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: White House,  New York Times Company

Why The Nice Man Didn't Save the Toddler

Sometimes, when I try to explain how frenzied we have become about the real but extremely rare crime of childhood abduction, or of rampant pedophilia in general, I compare our era to 1692 Salem. There was no way, back then, back there, to convince the ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Huffington Post,  14 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Frank Furedi

"FREE-RANGE KIDS"

When author Lenore Skenazy let her son loose on the subway last year, she was dubbed "America's Worst Mom." She explains why more parents need to let go Tomorrow my kids go back to school after 17 and a half months of vacation. Oh wait. Here's my ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, New York Post,  19 Apr 2009
Related Topics: NPR,  Google Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice

Lenore Skenazy: Let's Not Worry So Much About What Our Kids Eat

A lot of us. But maybe we shouldn't. Or at least, maybe we shouldn't burden our kids with all our nutritional correctness. When my older son (now 12) was in kindergarten, he came home with a keen interest in cans. Not to build towers with, or roll down ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Huffington Post,  11 Mar 2009

Tyler Perry's 'Madea' Offers Lessons for Media, Marketers

I just got back from a wildly popular place I've never been to before. If you're white, chances are you haven't either: Madea Land. I rented "Madea's Family Reunion," (a No. 1 movie when it opened in 2006) then caught "Madea Goes to Jail" -- the No. 1 ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Advertising Age,  9 Mar 2009

Want to Successfully Target Boomers? Aim for the Head

Gripped by the fear of looking bad or dropping dead -- often considered equally undesirable -- we have spent the last 30 years or so obsessing about the Big Three (above). We toned, tanned, jogged, lifted weights, dieted every which way and guzzled ...

From LENORE SKENAZY, Advertising Age,  23 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Unilever PLC,  Yahoo!,  Steve Jobs,  Metallica

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