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Articles Written by: LENORE SKENAZY
Who is This?
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.
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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